As long as South Africa’s green economy initiative is driven by technocrats from plush air-conditioned offices, without the involvement of people at the grassroots level, it is not going to bear fruit. Dr Amis, an environmentalist who is also the Read the full story
For black businesses to realise their full potential within them, they should stop expecting government handouts and get their hands dirty, as government is only the facilitator. This was the moral of President Jacob Zuma’s address to a gathering of Read the full story
Entrepreneurship is not for the fainthearted in the current depressing economic times, and, in order to grow, small business owners should either ask themselves tough questions or should be prepared to face tough questions. And there are no two ways Read the full story
On the surface, the phenomenal number of cooperatives registered annually (20,000 so we are told) is impressive. But don’t be deceived by statistics, warns Sipho Chris Gina, deputy general secretary of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union. He Read the full story
Customarily, every year during winter unionised workers down their tools demanding salary increases at all costs. Most times the figures presented are unsustainable and unreasonable, out of kilter with economic realities and incongruous with the level of their productivity. Read the full story
A total of 3 384 private sector enterprises across all provinces have been assisted with projects to the value of R13.6 billion, through incentive schemes and other programmes of the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) during the 2013/14 Read the full story
Given corporate South Africa’s reluctance to increase the number of women in its boardrooms, perhaps it makes sense for government to pass legislation obligation companies to toe the line. Europeans countries like the Spain, Norway, France and lately Germany have Read the full story
By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Gupta Xolela Mangcu, an academic and promiment columnist, could not have been more spot on when he observed that the Rhodes statue debate is a microcosm of the racial tension that has been simmering for a Read the full story
The convenience that smartphones have brought to doing business is incredible, with a mere touch screen; only a decade ago this was sci-fi movie stuff. Nonetheless, there is a downside to this: the dearth of one-on-one networking, which before the Read the full story
The reason why stories of successful women in what are considered “male dominated’ careers raise eyebrows is that society still looks at the presence of a woman in those fields as alien. The hurdles that women in the fields of Read the full story
