Tag: economy

Every year, leading brand and branded business valuation consultancy, Brand Finance puts thousands of the top brands to test. These brands are valued to...

South Africa’s engineering sector is being held back by universities’ inability to teach entrepreneurial skills and breed a new generation of innovators and business...

Economic growth is a constant mantra of politicians, economists and the media. Few understand what it is, but they love and follow it blindly....

With the economy seeing consecutive negative growth that has placed it in the grips of a technical - but very real - recession. It will...

PART 1 OF A 3 PART SERIES South Africa lags far behind many developing countries in levels of entrepreneurship, which is seen globally as a...

Lullu Krugel, Chief Economist at KPMG in South Africa, shares insight on how South Africa will get out of recession and to turn around the non-investment grade position, the country must embrace transparency and change in leadership and direction.

Social inequality is a strategic risk for businesses globally, and particularly in South Africa. Consequently, directors need to ensure that initiatives to reduce inequality...

Imagine that you woke up this morning to the news that Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump had both just announced their resignations as President and that Robert Mugabe has been declared unfit to lead Zimbabwe! Now think of who you would choose to lead? More importantly, what qualities should the next leader have?

Along with the rest of the world, South Africa is in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, in which the smart use of information and technology is reshaping societies. One of the most apparent ways in which this is happening can be seen is in the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), where smart, connected devices are being deployed in cities and industries globally, to gather data and glean contextual insights which are used to achieve higher levels of efficiency, productivity and utilization of scarce and natural resources.

The phrase "radical economic transformation" is on everybody's lips and the international economic world is watching South African politicians to see how this phrase will play out in changes to the economic policies.