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Two major surveys in the past few days have provided a rare glimpse into the state of the real economy, including the views of thousands of international and more than 50 South African CEOs as well as input from 12,000 private companies.
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The latest GEM research has shown that almost three years after the FIFA Soccer World Cup, entrepreneurial activity in South Africa has dropped to an alarming new low.
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At evening soirees, the rich and powerful delegates at the 23rd World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cape Town gathered to share canapes. Politicians, like President Jacob Zuma and Nigerian's Goodluck Jonathan, were in great demand.
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The stakes are high in the stand-off between the national planning commission (NPC), the department of energy (DoE) and deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe over government's R1trillion nuclear expansion plan.
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CEOs in Africa are more confident about growth this year than their peers in the rest of the world, but those in South Africa are more concerned than global business bosses about the availability of key skills.
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ON WEDNESDAY evening 220 investors and asset managers logged a call to have Leon Kirkinis convince them there was still life in the African Bank Investments Limited (Abil) body after a week-long R6bn hemorrhage.
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Speaking at the GSB recently, Shehnaz Mathews said that statistically up to 50% of women in South Africa are likely to have experienced gender violence in their homes, and the responsibility for tackling the problem falls on everyone.
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Leadership training in SA is creating a generation of black executives without empathy or humanity, says American academic Mark Rittenberg.
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The raft of negative publicity surrounding Safa doesn't help it win sponsorships. This week Safa admitted for the first time that Puma has complained bitterly and made known its unhappiness.
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A University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) alumnus, who recently made a donation of R30 000 to the USB's Small Business Academy, has also offered 'intellectual capital' in the form of an environmental guide, which he has co-created.
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Ethical business practices and companies demanded that the people working within these organisations and, more importantly, leading these companies must have the highest standard of ethics.
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We're a peace-loving bunch at Leader.co.za, but every now and then we come across something that brings out the Norris in us.
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When Apple last month announced its first drop in profits in a decade, and fudged a little on when new products will be rolled out, investors and consumers wondered if the company's glory days are over.
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South Africa can achieve electricity supply security without investing in further nuclear power. Alternative power sources are cheaper and they can also help us achieve our Copenhagen pledges to reduce carbon emissions.
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Generation Y and Z - young people born in the 80s and 90s - have huge potential to play a positive role in building a much-needed new business environment in South Africa, yet they make up the majority of the unemployed in the country.
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Graduates are making mistakes that can be prevented and that could be stopping them from landing their dream job.
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Dr Jonathan Lawley from the Business Council for Africa in the UK shares his main conclusions from his experiences of running a programme in African mining countries.
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It’s more or less a year before South Africa enters the 2014 national and provincial elections and already political parties are in campaign mode and by the looks of it, electoral reform is going to be one of the top items on the agenda.
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It is often easy to become pessimistic, or even fatalistic, about South Africa. It is also hard to escape the fact that there are, sometimes, valid reasons for such pessimism and fatalism.
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South Africa’s V&A Waterfront and the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) have announced a shared innovation collaboration that is expected to make a significant difference to South Africa on a socio-economic level.
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Prof Peliwe Mnguni, acting Research Manager of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership, was awarded the Centre for the Study of Organisational Change (CSOC) Excellence in Organisational Scholarship Award for 2013
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There is general agreement that encouraging savings is essential in any strong and vibrant economy. What does SA have to do to bring home the bacon?
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One child policies in rich countries and the introduction of a supra-national body to implement sweeping reforms could shift the inevitable, says leading economist and sustainability pioneer Jorgen Randers.
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