As much as finding new ways to do business will play a key role in South Africa's economic turnaround strategy, for the country to emerge from the years-long slump exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic it will need to further invest in its cornerstone industries...
The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) will present Infecting the City, which has been renamed (Un)Infecting the City for this year, during May and June 2021.
Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the global economy, and in this context we'll consider the enforceability of a restraint of trade agreement during the pandemic...
Lisa-Anne King 19 Apr 2021
Sibanye-Stillwater has restructured the heavily indebted broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) structure it inherited when it bought Lonmin in 2019...
Yesterday evening Sanlam unveiled its new purpose and brand positioning, what it calls its new promise to Africa...
As local business relief initiatives come to a close, many small and medium enterprises continue to struggle with an unfortunate number of businesses' liquidity eroded by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Evan-Lee Courie 31 Mar 2021
Saskia Tihana Clements moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and has spent the last six years building her brand in the USA. She is an entrepreneur, humanitarian, producer and founder of creative agency, The Boldest...
Evan-Lee Courie 9 Mar 2021
An ever-changing world is seeing organisations increasingly turning to management consultants to reshape their business strategies...
Francois Kriel, Issued by Kriel & Co 8 Mar 2021
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) dismissed claims made by a pilots' association that the SAA flight transporting a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines was an unnecessary expensive exercise as untrue...
For over a decade, the South African corporate tax rate has remained unchanged at 28%. This was so even in the face of a global trend which saw many countries reduce corporate tax rates...
Sasol said on Monday, 22 February, it has decided not to pursue a rights issue of up to $2bn after significant progress in its turnaround strategy...
While Eskom's recently tabled tariff restructure programme is drawing a fair amount of criticism, it may ultimately improve the landscape for renewable energy in South Africa...
Tygue Theron 20 Feb 2021
The global pandemic has shaken up our lives and careers, but it has also created new opportunities. To thrive in a post-pandemic world, young leaders and managers will need to embrace operating in the global economy...
By Dr Beverly Shrand, Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 18 Feb 2021
Bos Brands is ramping up its direct-to-consumer offering with the launch of a subscription service. This follows a revamp of the company's online store last year...
Lauren Hartzenberg 16 Feb 2021
The industry now has a unique opportunity to reevaluate, restrategise, and create robust structures better suited to roll with the pandemic punches...
Greg Cooke 15 Feb 2021
The arrival of Google Analytics 4 - initially called App + Web - marks a turning point in data-driven marketing...
Issued by Jellyfish South Africa 15 Feb 2021
Accurate Agent Group has set out to help businesses and leaders across Africa thrive in 2021 and beyond, through strategic business management solutions, in the new business environment created by Covid-19...
Issued by TR Brand Communications & Events 27 Jan 2021
While 2020 will forever be remembered as a year of unprecedented challenges and uncertainty, 2021 promises to bring exciting shifts...
John Jack 26 Jan 2021
With the curfew still in place and increasing fear around the new strain and second wave of Covid-19 infections, many restaurants are struggling to operate at a profit...
Evan-Lee Courie 21 Jan 2021
Three broad themes emerging in South Africa in 2021, which will require extensive input from the legal profession, are: changes to the economy and regulation prompted by Covid-19; moves by government and the private sector to stimulate economic recovery; and a greater focus on corporate responsibility and consumer protection...
Jonathan Veeran, Nozipho Mngomezulu and Burton Phillips 19 Jan 2021
Following the announcement of school closures and the lockdown in March 2020, the Durban-based Zero2Five team restructured its centre-based feeding scheme...
Most South Africans are now understandably keen to see the end of 2020 and are hoping for better times in 2021, after what has been a rollercoaster year for SA's political economy...
Raymond Parsons 30 Dec 2020
The Re/Max of Southern Africa board of directors has appointed Jo Neser, a retired director and now executive consultant at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, to be its new chair of the board, effective 1 January 2021. Neser has served as the brand's corporate attorney for the last 25 years.
On 23 October 2020 Scopen, together with the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS), conducted a virtual launch of Trend Score, a first for South Africa...
I sat in the drivers' seat for a long drive with this new vehicle, and I can confidently say that there is nothing small about the Mini Countryman...
Naresh Maharaj 19 Nov 2020
Cristina Duarte of the Republic of Cabo Verde is the new special adviser on Africa to the UN secretary-general. A former minister of finance and planning in her country, she intends to bring to her role a renewed strategic narrative...
Real estate has become a global asset class and, as a developing nation, the Nigerian real estate market continues to evolve at an impressive pace...
Noah Ibrahim 2 Nov 2020
An extremely important Constitutional Court judgement has been handed down in the Aveng Trident Steel case. Effectively, what this means is that employers can restructure not only by reducing staff numbers but also by changing terms of employment...
The confluence of economic pressures, the impact of the pandemic and the changing consumer habits brought by the experience economy trend is forcing banks to reimagine how they deliver products and services to customers...
Darrel Orsmond 21 Oct 2020
Ten months into the job, Eskom's newish boss, André de Ruyter, jokes that he is a veteran compared to the longevity of CEOs past. And nobody envies him the task of putting a debt-ridden, plundered and neglected business back together again...
Nicci Botha 21 Oct 2020
The role of government should be to improve and reorganise this sector to address the needs of users. The proposed national operational subsidy is an opportunity to do precisely that...
Benjamin H. Bradlow 12 Oct 2020
S.Pellegrino is set to host the Food Meets Hope digital event, which will commence the Recovery Summit hosted by the World's 50 Best Restaurants organisation, on 13 October 2020...
Reliable, secure and affordable energy supply is the lifeblood of any economy, and the government has gazetted ministerial determinations that will enable the development of more than 11.800MW of additional power generation...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought disruptions and devastating impact on the South African economy with several businesses reeling from the effects of this pandemic. The South African and global economy has taken an unexpected turn and this has had dire consequences on businesses...
Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria 18 Sep 2020
The Department of Public Enterprises has called on South African Airways employees and creditors to be patient while work continues to find a constructive outcome to challenges at the airline...
South African courts already see a large number of medical malpractice/negligence cases every day. Now, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, our already stretched health system is at capacity...
Mthokozisi Maphumulo 17 Sep 2020
The first digital version of the SA Innovation Summit will host the Swiss-South African Pitch Battle on the SAIS2020 Virtual365 Edition stage...
The pandemic brought with it a slew of realisations for business owners; one such an epiphany is how most organisations need fewer employees to remain functional. But using Covid-19 as a reason for retrenching a surplus of employees constitutes unfair dismissal...
For years now, South Africa's local fashion industry has been steadily trudging along. Many production and economic challenges face both local brands and designers, but the closest to their bottom line are inexpensive imports.
Samantha Chrysanthou 8 Sep 2020
The effective end of South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown has been compounded by the resumption of rolling blackouts, or load shedding to use the government's double speak...
The fund will be made available to existing Land Bank smallholder farmers; this includes the banks farmers who are serviced through the bank's intermediary partners...
According to JLL's latest South Africa Q2 Real Estate report, while the country is witnessing the easing of restrictions, the impact of Covid-19, coupled with economic pressures, continues to create challenges for most corporate real estate sectors...
Karen Nadasen, CEO at PayU South Africa, is fulfilling her promise of a seismic shift towards women in technology, and women in her community...
Evan-Lee Courie 27 Aug 2020
Liberty Group South Africa launched the Blue Table Sessions where women from all walks of life converse about the value women bring to the economy in a time of Covid-19 and beyond...
Evan-Lee Courie 17 Aug 2020
When the dust settles, the humanitarian sector will need to take strategic steps to restore and strengthen its capacity to contribute effectively to a post-Covid world...
Reana Rossouw, Issued by Next Generation 7 Aug 2020
In my view, the recent announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa to close public schools again was a political decision and it should not have come to this...
Helga Jansen-Daugbjerg 31 Jul 2020
South Africa responded swiftly to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the sharp drop in activity adds to long-standing challenges and raises the urgency of structural reforms, according to a new report...
Covid-19 has disrupted the lives of most people around the world with tragic consequences for some. There is still debate around the lockdown strategies adopted, with no shortage of vocal armchair experts on social media...
Tim Acker 27 Jul 2020
The economic backlash of Covid-19 has prompted the government to come up with a recovery plan intended to restore business confidence, stimulating investments as well as safeguarding and creating jobs in the mining and energy sector.
A recent Henderson Institute paper, The Science of Organisational Change, argues that the most successful organisations in the 2020s will be those who "constantly learn and adapt to changing realities..."
Francois Kriel, Issued by Kriel & Co 17 Jul 2020