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 | Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has assured Parliament that the department is conducting the requisite due diligence as it disburses Covid-19 TERS Benefits to avoid processing fraudulent claims. Read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Terry Levin, creative director at Bizcommunity, shares her views of the current Covid-19 crisis and how the company is navigating these unusual times... Read |  | JORDAN RITTENBERRY As the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts lives and damages economies, society is looking to big business for leadership and solutions. So far, however, the private sector has not lived up to expectations, Edelman's most recent Trust Barometer data shows... Read |  | ISSUED BY SAICA As part of SAICA's Leadership in a Time of Crisis webinar series, Willem van der Post, CA(SA) and CEO of xTech.Capital shared some thoughts on what the workplace of the future will look like, especially in a post-coronavirus world... Read |  | ISSUED BY SA SHARES Covid-19 health and safety workplace response plans will play a major role in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Employers can take a leaf from the response plan developed by AECI, a large South African chemical manufacturer... Read |
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 | A Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) survey has revealed that 8.1% of its respondents lost jobs or closed businesses as a consequence of the Covid-19 outbreak... Read |
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 | Did you know that over the last decade, digital transformation projects have had less than a 20% success rate...? Read |
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 | 21st Century's fifth and sixth weekly snap survey series addressed the topics of Variable Pay - Short-Term Incentives and Variable Pay - Long-Term Incentives, respectively, and the results pointed to a more cautious business environment... Read |
 | As governments in Africa start to ease lockdown restrictions and reopen local economies, CFOs are focusing on plans to provide a safe working environment for their employees... Read |
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 | French Tech Cape Town & Johannesburg has announced a series of initiatives to support South African tech entrepreneurs to help mitigate the effect of Covid-19... Read |
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 | SHAN RADCLIFFE Michelle Moss, director of assessments at Signium Africa, shares the her experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how the law firm is navigating these unusual times... Read |
 | JEANDIE LEONE When South Africa entered full lockdown, many industries were forced to shut their doors. Yet rather than remain closed, these industries adapted their offerings. We saw clothing manufacturers turn to the manufacture of personal protective equipment, and alcohol producers branch out into cleaning products and sanitizers... Read |
 | CRAIG LEBRAU, ISSUED BY LEBRAU PRESS Many companies are in the business of hiring short-term workers. The notion of temporary hire is by no means a new innovation that is just now being introduced into the workforce... Read |
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 | DR MAMPHELA RAMPHELE On this Africa Day 2020, we celebrate our resilience in the face of the disruptive Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
 | DONALD WAIGUMBULIZI Technology has the potential to fundamentally transform societies. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and broadband are becoming central to the societal developments around the world... Read |
 | Innovate Now, Africa's Assistive Technology Accelerator, is seeking applications from innovators across the African continent who are dedicated to developing mobile-based technologies designed to assist people living with disabilities... Read |
 | ANTÓNIO GUTERRES As Covid-19 spreads across the continent, Africa has responded swiftly to the pandemic and, as of now, reported cases are lower than feared... Read |
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 | DOROS HADJIZENONOS Cyber threats do not rest and they continue to evolve and bad actors develop new attack techniques. Good cybersecurity hygiene requires more than a strong password to avoid compromise. Read |
 | In the face of severe socio-economic realities, what can organisations do to protect and empower our vulnerable communities? Read |
 | HOWARD FELDMAN It is somewhat disappointing that the government have not legislated behavior on "Zoom" calls... Read |
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