Not everyone in BEE circles has warmed up to the highly publicised merger between Pembani Investment and Shanduka. The former is owned by former MTN chairperson, Phuthuma Nhleko, and the latter was famously under the country’s current Vice President, Cyril Read the full story
The Financial Services Board’s (FSB) decision to halt over-the-counter trading of BEE scheme shares is likely to hinder initiatives to help previously disadvantaged individuals build wealth through buying equity in blue chip companies. By 31 March 2015 any organisation conducting Read the full story
Right on the heels of Gauteng Department of Education ambitious tablet roll out in selected high schools in Gauteng Province, Vodacom has unveiled its e-school facility. The system is curriculum aligned on mobile devices across all major subjects for free. Read the full story
Inexplicably, big financiers have not been active in the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) equity area of late. Perhaps it could be something to do with tough economic times. But, for a fact, IBM South Africa has revived flagging Read the full story
There are times when aggrieved coloured and Indian South Africans have felt that they are marginalised on the account of national and regional demographics in the application of Employment Equity (EE) politicies. The recent case involving a coloured member of Read the full story
The country’s unemployment crisis could be due to government’s ill-advised approach to skills development, labour specialist Andre Kraak argues. Kraak is not surprised that, despite billions that have been poured into reforming national skills development and training over the last Read the full story
There are people who will do everything to hang on to their high paying jobs in government entities, even when odds seem stacked against them. For former South African Revenue Services (SARS) Commissioner, Oupa Magashula, instead of fighting his premature Read the full story
The announcement that foreigners may not be allowed to own land in future has triggered investor anxiety. A press release from the Presidency allays fears. It says government aims to address the following matters: The need to secure SA’s limited Read the full story
Small business owners are often indifferent to the launch of the National Budget, thinking that is it something that mainly concerns big entities with multimillion rand annual turnover. But they need to be alert as changes to the National Budget Read the full story
While Eskom’s failure to ensure the successful completion of its Kusile and Medupi projects have heightened expectations of doom and gloom, the success of the private sector-dominated wind energy projects is uplifting. A recent report released by the Global Read the full story
