In This Issue

The tidal wave of corruption, which has swept through South Africa, has been subject to public scrutiny and may potentially result in criminal prosecution...

Read our exclusive cover story entitled PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY! ...HAS THE WEB OF CORRUPTION DECAYED OUR TRUST? by Dr Ivor Blumenthal, CEO ArkKonsult as well as...

Roughly half of the African continent already has competition legislation in place, although some of these systems are not yet functional, and there are new systems coming into force all the time. For example, the head office of the regional competition authority, the East African Competition Commission opened in Tanzania and the first commissioners were appointed, and the Nigerian parliamentary lower house recently passed what will be Nigeria’s first proper antitrust regime.

In the 2017 Budget, delivered by the Minister of Finance, it was proposed that additional measures will be considered to circumvent transactions where investors choose to realise their share investments by means of having the shares they hold in a company bought back and characterised as a dividend, while being paid for by means of a new investor subscribing for shares in the same company. This followed on the back of a similar announcement in 2016, whereafter no two specific countermeasures were introduced.

If the data is to be believed, retrenchments are once again on the rise. Lets not speculate why, but the current environment doesn’t induce business stability.

On a worldwide basis, criminal activity in the workplace - detected or undetected - is at an all-time high. Fraud, corruption and other forms...

Further Education and Training (FET) should strive to achieve three goals: making graduates employable; creating a diverse workforce; and meeting the needs of the...

PEOPLE, PLANET, PROFIT - the triple bottom line! The concept of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) being social equity, environment and economic factors, demands that a company’s responsibility lies with stakeholders rather than shareholders. This also indicates a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 

Many South African businesses have now heard of the Protection of Personal Information Act (or POPI), and some have even spent time and money implementing their policies to prepare for their new responsibilities in terms of it.

Read our exclusive cover story entitled EMBRACING CHAOS – DO TROUBLED TIMES FAVOUR THE BOLD? by Jonathan Foster-Pedley, Dean & Director Henley Business School Africa as well as a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics.