Here’s to the next 20 years!

Here’s to the next 20 years!

By Mark Davison – In days gone by, Tim Humphreys-Davies may have been eligible for a long-service award such as a gold watch for 20 years’ service at one of the country’s biggest distributors, Pinnacle. Some would say, however, that a gold medal might be more...

SMEs can promote human rights at grassroots level

According to the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), there are an estimated 755 265 formal small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa. Collectively, these businesses reportedly employ over 10-million people. Given that the South African SMME...

Questions around SARS Vision 2024

SARS announced in February 2020 that it was taking the first steps towards becoming a future revenue authority informed by data-driven insights, self-learning computers, AI and interconnectivity between people and devices. By Joon Chong, partner at Webber Wentzel The...

SA primed to develop green energy practitioners

The renewable energy sector now employs more than 12-million people globally, with projections that this number will grow to 25-million by 2030 and at least 43-million by 2050. According to the eighth edition of the Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review, released...

How SMEs can save opex

Businesses that have survived the last two years now have to continue to manage costs particularly carefully, with operational costs (opex) being a key factor to their continued existence. “Luckily,” says Euphoria Telecom CEO John Woollam, “modern technology has...