Inyati Private Game Lodge launches staff share scheme

Inyati Private Game Lodge has issued over 12 000 phantom shares to its employees in a bid to reward staff loyalty and retain employee talent. The value of these shares is more than R3,6 million and equivalent to 5% of the company. Read more >>

Government, Sasol create jobs

Sasol ChemCity has teamed up with the Department of Science and Technology in a drive to create jobs at a seed-oil extraction plant in Nkowankowa outside Tzaneen in Limpopo. Read more >>

Informal employment 'booming' says Adcorp

According to Adcorp's latest Employment Index, informal sector employment levels are "booming" with a 7,7% increase in this sector in September, even though formal employment levels remain under pressure. Read more >>

Pay freeze may affect top executives

The global pay freeze being applied to top executives will probably have a direct impact on the earning power of South Africans and companies seeking to appoint new executives should not assume that because one person may be earning less than his or her counterpart, they are less qualified or able to do the job. Read more >>

Human development as important as GDP

Human development initiatives are as important as driving up gross domestic product number according to Finance Minister Pravan Gordhan who emphasised that investment in infrastructure, education, water and sanitation are urgently needed in this country. Read more >>

Digital artisans can fill gap in the market

Before Web 2.0, high school graduates would either enter into tertiary education or take up an artisan trade. Today, with the innovations of social media, apps and content management platforms like WordPress, school leavers can find jobs building the world around them, not with bricks and cement, but out of clicks and content. Read more >>

Mixed reaction to Zuma's Padayachie move

[Duncan McLeod & Craig Wilson] President Jacob Zuma's decision to redeploy communications minister Roy Padayachie and his deputy, Obed Bapela, has drawn mixed reaction from the information and communications technology industry, with one analyst saying he was "stunned" by the move and that it would delay several important projects, including the migration to digital terrestrial television. Read more >>

SABC makes or breaks communications ministers

[Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] When the new communications minister was shifted out of her role as deputy minister of the department last year and into the presidency, I wondered if she breathed a huge sigh of relief. And I wonder now whether she is really as happy as she seems about going back, in spite of being promoted to full minister? Read more >>

Wal-Mart hearings focus on efficiencies, labour

[Paul Vecchiatto] The Competition Appeals court hearings into the Wal-Mart/Massmart merger turned mainly around labour and economic efficiency issues that the giant US retailer could bring into the local market. Read more >>

"Skeem" gets top award for Greene

Cape Town movie director Tim Greene has scooped the Audience Choice award for "Skeem" at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, according to Channel24 and Sowetan Live. "Skeem" is a comedy adventure story about a group of small-time crooks and greedy holiday-makers who scheme to get their hands of a box of cash at a run-down resort. Read more >>