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What To Expect From South Africa’s Second-quarter GDP Data

Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) will publish the results of South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2020, on Tuesday (8 September), providing a clearer picture of the severity of the economic impact of Covid-19.

7 Sep 2020 10AM 4 min

The Pivot Point

Bathabile Mpofu is a social entrepreneur and the MD of Nkazimulo Applied Sciences, an organisation that aims to help young people become scientists.

3 Sep 2020 10AM 10 min

Facebook Providing Grant To SMBs In SA

As part of its broader commitment to helping support small business owners in their economic recovery following the pandemic, Facebook is listening to the challenges these entrepreneurs are facing and is providing useful resources for them during this difficult and uncertain year.

3 Sep 2020 10AM 9 min

SA Vehicle Sales Take Another Hit As Export Volumes Declines

The car rental industry bought only 8 vehicles in August, or 0.04 percent of new vehicle sales, compared with 18 percent in August 2019, due to the massive blow to the tourism industry of the Covid-19 pandemic.

3 Sep 2020 10AM 6 min

Ethiopian Airlines Group In Talks With South African Airways

Ethiopian Airlines Group is among companies in talks with South Africa’s government about potentially offering support to the country’s insolvent state airline, according to people familiar with the matter.

3 Sep 2020 10AM 6 min

BEE In A Covid World Is It Still Working.

Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) legislation has been a fixture in the South African business landscape for a while, as early as 2003, and has, to an extent, changed the economic landscape of business in country.

2 Sep 2020 10AM 8 min

COVID-19 Tax Relief For Pay As You Earn (PAYE)

On 21st April 2020 President Ramaphosa announced additional measures to assist employers to provide financial stability to their employees. One of these measures includes a 35% deferral on the monthly PAYE liability owed to SARS for the months of April, May, June and July 2020.

2 Sep 2020 10AM 9 min

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa

As more of the economy reopens under level 2 of the Covid-19 lockdown, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has announced that it would be re-establishing its Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP), which aims to equip township youth with the skills and knowledge they need to potentially manage “Bizniz in a Box”…

2 Sep 2020 10AM 7 min

Covid-19 Relief Funds Audit

Besides red flags such as payments to deceased people, duplicate payments and overpayments in the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Covid-19 benefit scheme, Auditor General (AG) Kimi Makwetu also flagged government officials applying and benefitting from the scheme, in the agency’s Covid-19 Relief Funds Audit.

2 Sep 2020 10AM 5 min

Innovation

MTN has launched a contract-free option for new and existing clients who don’t want to be locked into their more traditional 24-month deals.

1 Sep 2020 10AM 11 min

Vodacom's New Gender-Neutral Parental Leave Policy

Vodacom has announced a New Gender-Neutral Parental Leave Policy which will offer equal time off to all parents. The telco said that all its employees, regardless of their gender and sexual orientation, will be offered 16 weeks (four months) of fully paid parental leave.

1 Sep 2020 10AM 9 min

State-Owned Companies Requesting For Funding

A number of State-Owned Companies have requested billions of rands in funding from the government to help them weather the impact of the coronavirus crisis, National Treasury said in a parliamentary presentation on Tuesday.

1 Sep 2020 10AM 8 min

Wealth Creation

Platinum holdings in ETFs have surged to a record, raising the prospect of a catch-up rally for the precious metal after months of lagging gold and silver.

31 Aug 2020 10AM 9 min

The Islamic Insurgent War

Fighting between Islamic extremist rebels and Mozambique’s army over a key port is threatening to disrupt the East African nation’s burgeoning natural-gas developments, including a multibillion-dollar project led by French energy giant Total SA .

31 Aug 2020 10AM 13 min

Our Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown measures have had a huge negative impact on producers and consumers. Food production has been disrupted, and incomes have been lost.

31 Aug 2020 10AM 7 min

The Pivot Point

PCA trading and projects a 100% black owned construction and letting company based in Joburg that was started in 2013 by Phindile Cindi, a historically disadvantaged woman.

27 Aug 2020 10AM 10 min

Telkom Now Likely SA’s Third Largest Mobile Operator

According to an article by Duncan McLeod from Tech central, ten years after it launched its first mobile offering in the form of 8ta, Telkom has surpassed Cell C to become South Africa’s third largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers.

27 Aug 2020 10AM 5 min

Trading Environment In South Africa

When it comes to global markets throwing out curveballs to investors, 2020 has just lobbed out one spinner after the other. The corona virus pandemic swept the globe, halting trade for many companies without warning and throwing markets into disarray.

27 Aug 2020 10AM 7 min

Running A Succesful Bakery #Madebywomen

The Bread Box Bakery was incorporated in July 2017. The business operated in a residential place for a number of months until the demand from our customers necessitated a growth in our operations.

26 Aug 2020 10AM 8 min

Manufacturing And Production Of Menstrual Products #Madebywomen

Zizipho Ntobongwana is the bold young businesswoman behind Sheba Feminine, a local range of biodegradable sanitary products made from organic cotton.

26 Aug 2020 10AM 10 min