QBS LBNSS, a small business established in 2008 whose service portfolio includes construction, landscaping, cleaning, catering and transportation, has set goals which it aims to accomplish in 2016. Transform SA Online’s Joy Kunene had the rare privilege of interviewing the Read the full story
It may have been expected that the implementation of black economic empowerment (BEE), or its variant broad based economic empowerment (BBBEE), was not always going to be perfect; some teething flaws were to be tolerated. But this was not to Read the full story
Certainly you know about (at least have heard about) the tragedy that befell South Africa’s textile industry – which boomed in the 1990s and was once the pride of the nation – after failing to withstand competition from grossly underpriced Read the full story
Just over two years ago, Thabiso Sechele and Tshepo Sechele, both 26, decided to forego the arduous task of screening newspaper classified sections for job opportunities, which were becoming scarce in a slow economy, to establish their own business, Big Read the full story
When rare opportunity finally arrived for 25 year old Temba Bavuma to bat for the Proteas against England on 6 January 2016 in Durban -after a long wait in the sidelines – he enthusiastically grabbed it with both hands, and, Read the full story
Can shareholders of a liquidated company sue its directors in their personal capacity? This has never happened in the post 1994 corporate South Africa, but the outcome of a court case in which African Bank Investments Limited’s (Abil’s) black economic Read the full story
Founded and managed by Alice Kraft, Alice Kraft designs, supplies furniture and décor as well as wall art. Kraft first started in the insurance broking business, a field in which she was proficient in, then, after being exhausted of the Read the full story
To meet the growing demand for its services and products, Let’s Share Trading fosters healthy relations with black owned businesses and local suppliers and distributors. After working in the manufacturing sector for years, Mellanie van der Byl witnessed the impact Read the full story
Seventeen years ago, while working a bricklayer for a construction firm, after intense contemplation, Isaac Mabena felt that he deserved better than labouring for long hours and being remunerated “peanuts” for all his dedication. His life was at a blind Read the full story
To impressionable young South Africans, the mere idea of putting on an overall and fabricating a boiler on a construction site in a remote part of the country is very “uncool”. Given a chance, many of them would opt to Read the full story
