Dubious procurement processes have led to the failure of well-intentioned state projects and it is important that the nuclear energy project should be well managed from its inception. The Nuclear Industry Association of South Africa managing director, Knox Msebenzi, said Read the full story
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe is renowned for his forthrightness when expressing sentiments on topical issues. And his address during a Black Business Council discussion revolving around the ANC’s manifesto in Johannesburg on 23 September was no exception. Mantashe advised Read the full story
Eulogies for outgoing South African Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus continue pouring in. In a statement the Black Management Forum has called her a remarkable leader. “Her leadership is demonstrated by how she has managed to build an amazing pipeline Read the full story
The government’s plan of creating a class of 100 black industrialists might have been dismissed as farfetched but a black economic empowerment consultant believes it is attainable. In an article titled Now is the time to create black industrialists, Managing Read the full story
When mining companies started talking about mechanising some of their core operations people thought that they were just making calculated threats to compel the government to intervene. But newly launched Booysendal Platinum Mine, which is located in the mountains on Read the full story
The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has initiated and is implementing the South African Emerging Black Filmmakers Incentive, a sub-programme of the South African Film and Television Production and Co-Production Incentive, according to aa statement from the Minister Read the full story
Informal and formal sectors of the economy were interdependent such that separating them would be impossible, said Gauteng economic Development MEC, Lebogang Maile, at a workshop that brought together municipalities and informal traders. The workshop was aimed at finding permanent Read the full story
Since 1994, the country has produced only 17.9% of skilled blacks, according to Statistics SA’s 20-year review on skills and employment in the 25 to 34 age group. As usual, as one would expect, analysts of all stripes have come Read the full story
There are concerns about Black owned businesses that fail to deliver or, to put it more bluntly, produce mediocre products or poor services when given preferential project contracts, but it has been established that organisations that sponsor projects could Read the full story
African Bank’s fate epitomises organisations in the country badly let down by their boards, says Peter Mushangwe Head of Research at Legae Securities, a Johannesburg Based stock broking firm. “If you take the 2008 global economic crisis, academic research Read the full story
