In This Issue

Is South Africa headed down a road of jobless growth where a capital-intensive economy is incompatible with a labour-intensive need? According to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report reviewed in Forbes Magazine, 11 August 2017, there are about 71 million unemployed 15 to 24-year-olds around the globe, many of them facing long-term unemployment. This is close to a historic peak of 13%.

Read our exclusive cover story titled Mission focus – does AI enable strategy or create distraction? by Steven Ambrose, CEO, Strategy Worx Consulting, plus a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics.

Extreme weather events - floods, droughts, typhoons and wildfires - and their frequency - are getting worse. In the past, these disasters were considered unpredictable, inalterable natural events. Today, extreme weather events are largely accepted as inevitable, and their severity and frequency influenced, if not caused, by human activity.

As South Africans we tend to adopt trends that are harmful in the long run. For a while now we have heard people preach and celebrate the notion of ‘Black Excellence’ without being fully aware of the damage this term causes.

Whilst listening to a recent presentation by Absa's equity analyst Samantha Naicker titled 'Navigating the Maze' on South African Food Producers, I stumbled on a theory dubbed 'The Lipstick Effect'.

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) recently announced that PMG Consortium has been selected as the preferred bidder to establish a mining...

In a highly fragmented world the consumer is looking for simplicity and navigable signs to know which brands to transact with and which to...

Read our exclusive cover story titled The Rich! - the visionaries that shape society by Brendan Benfield, Contributing Writer Free Market Foundation, Visiting Fellow Massachusetts...

At its origin, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) was intended to fulfil several critical objectives linked to transformation in the workplace, stemming from the immensely negative impact that Apartheid had wreaked on Black Civil Society in South Africa.

The Financial Intelligence Centre’s attempt to impose retrospective penalties for a period extending fully five years prior to the existence of any lawful authority is not merely misguided, it is a brazen affront to the rule of law.