Clico is an established 5-star guesthouse, offering chic accommodation, divine dining as well as versatile conference and events facilities.

Luxury Safari lodges often have to compromise on either the authenticity of 'the bush experience' or the extravagance of the setting in order to provide the visitor with a bona fide lodge stay.

Multiple statistics have abounded in the first two quarters of 2011. One of the most powerful of these is the statistics is that local M&A activity in South Africa has surged 133% for 2010. Local companies have become more sought after and competitive choices as acquisitions with the increase in consumer purchasing power.

This management education feature addresses the role of the South African Qualifications Authority(SAQA), as they grapple with the challenges of instituting the new National Qualifications Framework. We then unpack the issues behind the skills shortages in managerial positions in South Africa, particularly the financial services sector. In addressing these shortages, several options await a prospective employer. There are longer executive MBA programmes that focus on business management and education, and shorter seminars and workshops for the manager with less time at his or her disposal.

The face of marketing has transformed substantially. It's no longer a one directional banteror broadcast dais dominated by a production line of messages. The future of marketing has signalledthe end of one-way advertising as we know it. The zeitgeist of postadvertising reigns.

There are confined spaces in many industrial workplaces and the term 'confined space' is mainly used to describe items such as, vaults, cellars, mine shafts, tunnels and ducting, basically an area large enough for a person to enter to perform tasks. A confined space is also an area that is shut off from the rest of the world because it is not designed or configured for continuous occupancy and has limited or restricted means of entry or exit.

In an ongoing effort to modernise South Africa's transfer pricing regulations and tackle potential tax collection deficits, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) is focusing on those problematic areas where it believes there is non-compliance bytaxpayers and significant potential for increased collections for the fiscal year. Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, singled out transfer pricing as a key focus area for SARS in his 2010 Budget Speech, specifically where it involves shifting profits to jurisdictions outside South Africa.

For the past few months, I have been proposing that we repeat the experience we had in the early 1990s, today. Then there were two Codesas to iron out a new constitution and turn South Africa into a full-blown democracy. We now need another Codesa to create a blueprint for a sustainable economy which, among other things, means creating one million new businesses by 2020 - that is if the government wants to achieve its target of five million jobs by 2020. Businesses are ahead of jobs in the causal chain.

We face unprecedented challenges as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. In the last 50 years the global population has doubled from 3.5 billion to 7 billion. By 2050 it is estimated there will be 9 billion people on the planet.