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VAT increase: Solution or quick fix to a long-term crisis?
SA’s VAT hike to 16% may ease debt but worsens stagnation. True relief lies in growth, reforms, and expanding the tax base - not more taxes.
Work, family + an MBA: Edwin Kriel’s purpose-driven journey
Edwin Kriel excelled in career, fatherhood, and executive education, honouring his family by turning his success into theirs.
How an ‘MBA baby’ helped Davina Mentoor redefine leadership
Davina Mentoor balanced career, family, pregnancy, and an MBA, proving that resilience makes dreams possible.
The crumbling foundations of SA’s steel industry
South Africa’s steel industry is on the brink with high costs, weak policies and outdated tech threatening its future. Can it be saved?
Rural Wild Coast female excelling in free-range farming
When her farmworkers can buy their own cars and she can sit around the table "in my shorts, just like the male farmers in their shorts", Qawekazi Fadana will know she’s arrived as a serious player in the commercial farming community.
What Donald Trump's re-election means for South Africa
Economist and futurist Prof Andre Roux shares his perspective on how Trump’s presidency may influence South Africa and its trade relations.
The real costs of burnout in the workplace
Studies have found the dedicated and committed are particularly prone to burnout - a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress.
Reducing economic exclusion for enhanced economic growth
Why do we consistently fare the worst?
The responsibility of freedom
This year we celebrate 30 years of democracy, the freedom for all citizens as equals and the end of a despotic government in which only some were free.
Elections: Leadership trust at an all-time low
As South Africa faces a looming leadership crisis amidst upcoming elections, trust in key institutions has reached unprecedented lows, according to various studies.
SA’s entrepreneurial activity has declined post-pandemic
According to the latest 2023 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor South Africa (GEM SA) report released today (1 February), South Africa’s early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) has declined to below pre-pandemic levels.
SA chatbot as efficient as a human coach for goal attainment
The locally created cutting-edge software application Coach Vici is revolutionising the world of coaching assisting thousands of employees at the same time.
Financial inclusion: A pathway to eradicating global poverty
While we commemorate the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty, it's crucial to not only recognise this enduring challenge but also to explore innovative solutions. Financial inclusion stands out as a pivotal instrument.
Tshego Gweneth Tlhapi: Changing for success
After working as a chemical engineer for 6 years, Tshego Tlhapi hung up her hard hat and switched her boots for heels as she changed careers
Can software developers be trusted to work from home?
Technology makes it possible for knowledge workers like software developers to work from home and/or to work flexitime.
I care enough to keep you accountable
Prof Mias de Klerk writes an open letter to the South African President.
Mandatory audit firm rotation: Lessons to be learned from SA
Wednesday 31 May 2023 was an important day for the South African auditing profession and its stakeholders.
Business as usual for mental health is not good enough
Health economists estimate that unaddressed mental health conditions cost the South African economy R161 billion per year due to lost days of work, presenteeism (being at work but unwell), and premature mortality.
Death turns digital with Grief Tech
Morbid though it may seem, there is a new tech-enabled preoccupation with preserving legacies, capturing memories and giving us something to hang onto after our loved ones have passed.
We need fewer hero leaders and more virtuous leaders
Africa and the world need fewer hero leaders and more virtuous leaders.
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