by Dianne Bayley | Nov 3, 2020 | Sustainability
Everyone knows by now that due to a combination of leadership, environment, social ecology, demographics and as yet unknown biological and other factors, Africa has been spared the worst of the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on other parts of the globe and was...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 2, 2020 | Sustainability
An update on 28 October 2020 before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), the Auditor-General of South Africa and the Special Investigating Unit found that over 6 000 government officials had claimed more than R41 million in UIF TERS covid-19...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 28, 2020 | Sustainability
Across the world, 2020 will be remembered as the year when our way of life changed fundamentally as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Richard Firth, CEO, MIP Holdings notes. Arguably the biggest transformation we have seen over the past six months has been the mass...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2020 | Sustainability
During the national COVID-19 lockdown, many South Africans took up side hustles to help make up for a drop in their income or to make productive use of their extra time at home, writes Selina Bieber, Regional Director, GoDaddy. If you were one of these people and are...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 19, 2020 | Sustainability
Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic, along with its subsequent travel restrictions and historic crash in oil prices, is deferring major final investment decisions and billions of dollars of capital that were expected to flow into Africa’s energy industry. Or is it...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 18, 2020 | Sustainability
If your response to vendors plying their trade on South African streets is one of pity and despair, you need a lesson on the power of Africa’s informal economy, according to author, entrepreneur and informal business guru GG Alcock. Alcock says that the informal...
