For a long time, acquiring a licence to operate a mine has been a convoluted process involving filling reams of forms. Now, with the launch of its One Environmental System, government aims to streamline licensing processes for mining, environmental authorisations Read the full story
Those who thought that implementing the objectives of transformation was going to be a matter of routine are utterly disillusioned, 21 years into the country’s democracy. Unfortunately, contrary to popular expectation, the exercise was never and will never happen overnight. Read the full story
Small scale foreign business owners must be doing something right which their South African counterparts cannot. And the former must share the secrets of their success with the latter. Minister of Small Business Development, Lindiwe Zulu, made this remark in Read the full story
Most start-ups are just given capital, a firm handshake and told: “Good luck!” No attempt is made to give them mental stamina to endure the challenges that lie ahead. It is this practice that Patrick Greenway, Managing Director of Action Read the full story
One of the main reasons behind the country’s acute skills shortage is its fixation with requiring high school students to pass matric exams at all costs. This institutionally condemns those who do not qualify as failures. This observation is made Read the full story
If truth be told, Government has gone all-out to ensure that famers drawn from previously disadvantaged communities are involved in commercial agricultural activities through programmes like land redistribution and funding. However, it seems this endeavour might not just suffice to Read the full story
Imagine a situation where legislation passed under supposedly good intentions inadvertently backfires. Fortunately, President Jacob Zuma has discovered this before hastily passing the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act Amendment Bill. In a statement, the President’s Office argued that implementing Read the full story
Times are not good time for businesses even in Gauteng, the country’s richest province. And one can understand Premier David Makhura’s concern. Firstly, as evidenced by recent statistics, investment inflows have slowed down, and secondly, tough economic times, strongly illustrated Read the full story
To get a better grasp of the relevance of Cell C in the country’s mobile telephone market, one has to imagine a situation where there were only MTN and Vodafone. One can only picture a situation where there would be Read the full story
The aftermath of the recent looting of foreign owned spaza shops in Soweto is an opportunity for working out ways in which foreign owned businesses can be integrated into the township economy. And this has to be done without creating Read the full story
