As South Africans, we have the notoriety for doing things at the last minute, that’s why we have earned the moniker “The last minute nation”. But experience has shown that seldom are things done at the last minute done well. Read the full story
The Johannesburg-based Transform Education about Rape and Sexual Abuse (TEARS) Foundation’s free innovative USSD-based platform, called Help at Your Fingertips, has, undoubtedly, taken awareness to another notch. The nationally-accessible assistance cell phone platform gives access to 3500 service providers who Read the full story
The issue of the minimum wage has been contentious both prior and post-1994, with a consensus between business and labour unions nowhere near being thrashed out. Interestingly, information from a research coordinated by Dr Asghar Adelzadeh, director and chief economic Read the full story
The democratically elected government’s supposedly well-intentioned initiatives of expanding the microcredit and the informal microenterprise sector in Post-apartheid South Africa have produced inadvertent consequences, according to an analyst in microfinancing, Milford Bateman. “This was how it was going to deal Read the full story
The word ‘Game Changer’ has been abused, loosely used, misplaced. So, could the Department of Trade and Industry’s (dti’s) Automotive Production and Development Programme (APDP), which the Trade and Industry Minister, Robbie Davies, announced this year, fit the bill in Read the full story
It’s that time again when we customarily celebrate the “impressive” results that our education conveyor belt we call matric churns out annually. Normally, for matriculants it always turns out to be a short-lived experience as they realise that an Everest Read the full story
By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Gupta It has been action-packed in the transformation area in 2015, with a different attention-grabbing developments taking place, mainly in policy enactments, maturity of high profile Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) schemes and business successes, notwithstanding in a Read the full story
Transform SA Online editorial board is loath to lavishing praise on people who are paid to conduct public duty by tax payers’ money. But it is not misdemeanour, once in a while, to extend plaudits to public servants whose performance Read the full story
Once black professionals climb up the corporate ladder to positions of influence they forget that their lot needs to be uplifted, according to the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) CEO, Philisiwe Mthethwa. In an interview with City Press, Mthethwa said her Read the full story
Statistics from a SA Institute of Race Relations (IRR) survey indicate there is still a lot of work to be done to increase the labour participation rates for “Africans”. While acknowledging the strides that have been made Post-1994 in Read the full story