By Musa Kalenga More people on the planet own mobile phones than toothbrushes. These levels of mobile technology adoption have created the ability for people that were previously “excluded” to be part and parcel of local and global business. Read the full story
EconoBEE, one of the largest specialised BEE consulting companies in South Africa, has advised businesses to be acquainted with the new PPFA Draft Regulations which the National Treasury published on 14th June 2016. A specialist from EconoBEE, Keith Levenstein, says Read the full story
As it is moving to keep its operations abreast of ICT trends, Telkom is also playing a considerable part in developing the country’s small and medium enterprises sector. According to Financial Mail, The Telkom giant revealed about its plans to Read the full story
They say statistics don’t lie. And it’s certainly true for the tourism sector, which defied an uncertain economic conditions to create almost 48, 000 jobs in 2015. And given the problems the country is facing with taming rising unemployment (more Read the full story
Barloworld’s commitment to youth development is reflected in all aspects of the business. The company is involved in several youth development initiatives in South Africa, which are listed below. Supporting Enactus’ innovative model for youth entrepreneurship Through Enactus South Africa, Read the full story
Small, black-owned as well as women-owned companies are set to benefit from the Treasury’s proposed new preferential procurement guidelines that stipulate the reservation of 30% of all large government-issued subcontracts subcontracts should be reserved for them. According to the Treasury: Read the full story
Are we surprised why shares doled out with fanfare in the mining sector to so-called Black Economic Empowerment consortiums (or some hastily assembled grouping classified as black) end up not worth even the paper on which they are printed? We shouldn’t. It’s Read the full story
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans Secretary, Sam Gulube says small and medium enteprises interested in bidding for tenders to supply products for United Nations (UN) peace keeping operations will be given the necessary support. Concerning the UN’s procurement Read the full story
By Beverly Klein On Thursday 9 June in Cape Town and on 13 June in Johannesburg, the Red & Yellow School hosted information sessions to address the changes and updates to the B-BBEE Sector Code for the South African Marketing, Read the full story
According to Richard Rayne, CEO of iLearn, companies that are obliged by law to contribute to the country’s Skills Development Fund (SDF) through paying the mandatory skills development levy will find a number of important benefits if they include learnerships Read the full story
