Complaining about the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) lack of clarity on the ownership pillar of the revised Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) won’t help anyone, not least big businesses themselves in achieving compliance. In fact, big business Read the full story
Figures have, once and for all, settled the debate on whether the black beneficiaries of much hyped black economic empowerment on the JSE have really benefited from billion rand transactions that have taken place. An Intellidex report revealed that, cumulatively, Read the full story
To assist the National Treasury in stemming the tide of financial wastage in local authorities, SAP South Africa tells Transform SA that it intends to engage with its ecosystem and local government with a view to assisting local government municipalities Read the full story
Local authorities have to be aware of how the revised B-BBEE codes will affect the way they adjudicate tenders for various projects. Gone is tickbox compliance practice which tenderpreneurs have been exploiting to their sole benefit, leading to poor delivery Read the full story
The country’s education curriculum has been faulted for producing job seekers and not job creators, something irrelevant to current economic demands. And in order to tackle this problem, Eskom unveiled an initiative, the Eskom Entrepreneurship Education Competition, which is a Read the full story
South Africa’s industrial relations system has shifted too far in accommodating the interests of trade union officials and balance needs to be restored so as to curtail violence and reintroduce democracy on to the shop floor, says the Institute of Read the full story
The country’s unemployment statistics have risen from 3.67 million in 1994 to 8.74 million. As government and vested organisations map up practical ways of solving this challenge, ‘experts’ of all stripes are producing what they claim are ‘sustainable’ solutions. However, Read the full story
Already grappling with loadshedding, the capacity of Eskom to meet the electricity supply requirements of rural schools is severely undermined. But one company has devised a means to ensure that lack of electricity or less of it due to Read the full story
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so says the old saying. And this is certainly true for construction companies who have been driven to lower their bidding prices to secure public project tenders, Transform SA learns from results of FNB/BER Read the full story
