Cape Town-based Local transport start up, Go Metro is in the process of revolutionising the public transport system for working class commuters, both locally and abroad. The company won the Cape Town leg of the prestigious global Get in Read the full story
Consider how many more jobs and small businesses could be created if some of the other 38 waste streams in South Africa were also dealt with along the lines that REDISA uses in the tyre industry. Women in business are Read the full story
As companies are retrenching (downsizing or rightsizing as they call it these days), many people are finding themselves pounding the streets or checking classifieds sections of newspapers desperately looking for jobs. Recent figures released by Statistics SA indicate that the Read the full story
Public consultations on draft regulations for shale gas exploration will begin in September, the mineral resources department announced. In a brief, department director general, Thibedi Ramontja, told Parliament’s Mineral Resources Portfolio Committee that the technical regulations on fracking, or Read the full story
Patricia de Lille, Cape Town mayor, has called the MyCiTi bus service as Cape Town’s biggest black economic empowerment (BEE) project. In a speech De Lille said: “To date, the MyCiTi project has seen an overall investment of R6.5bn by Read the full story
Doom day prophets who seemed to suggest that the economy was in a recession have been proved wrong, according to recent data. Firm growth in the agriculture and financial industries offset a potentially catastrophic impact of the strike-hit mining sector Read the full story
The ANC has announced the appointment of Zwelibanzi Mntambo as the new chairman of SA Tourism. In a statement the party said: “The ANC takes this opportunity to welcome him and also to extend our best wishes to the outgoing Read the full story
Sandisiwe Ncemane, investment manager: energy division of the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) sees Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape is becoming a hotspot for the manufacturing of green energy components and technologies soon. In its 2013/14 financial year, Read the full story
In a recession-defying development, there has been a rise in the number of people running informal businesses over the past four years, according to Statistics SA. Findings of the 2013 Survey of Employers and the Self-employed (Sese) released by Read the full story
In a written response to a question from the Democratic Alliance in parliament in Cape Town, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant revealed that less than two percent of the training layoff scheme’s R1.2bn budget had been spent. Oliphant told parliament that Read the full story