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 | Following a year of pandemic and lockdowns, South African employees and companies are looking ahead to the annual Budget Speech on 24 February with a sense of foreboding... read |
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 | JEAN-JACQUES DUYVENÉ DE WIT Governments and central banks across the globe have implemented measures to counter the expected negative effects of Covid-19 and lockdowns on economies since the start of the pandemic...read |
|  | BRENT HAUMANN The financial services industry is no exception to the pandemic-driven need to transform to high-quality digital experiences to customers, employees, and partners almost overnight...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM Being acknowledged and appreciated is everything and this April it's the turn of brand managers on Biz... Read |
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| |  | Further steps to ensure tax enforcement and collection are more likely to be the message in the upcoming Budget Speech than the introduction of a wealth tax. Read |  | VUYANI NDABA South Africa's consolidated fiscal deficit is expected to narrow this year because of an economic rebound, although the long-term trend of higher debt remains unchanged due to Covid-19 and pre-existing spending... Read |
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 | The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) has announced that Jenitha John has resigned from her role as CEO of the body... Read |
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 | PAULA WALKER In order to attract and retain top talent, companies are getting more creative with their employee benefits... Read |
 | ISSUED BY ENTERSEKT Entersekt CEO Schalk Nolte looks at how involving the customer through 'intelligent friction' can stymie the efforts of fraudsters... Read |
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 | WERNER LINDEMANN Unless insurance companies take the plunge into an omni-channel world, it faces some very real challenges this year... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DISCOVERY INVEST It goes without saying that 2020 was a tumultuous year as people around the world confronted the unprecedented social, economic and political challenges brought about by the Covid-19 outbreak... Read |
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 | 2020 will likely forever be remembered for its major challenges, including many personal losses caused by Covid-19. In the wake of a year of lockdowns, job losses, and more, both businesses and staff are looking to the annual Budget Speech happening on 24 February with a mixture of hope and dread... Read |
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 | RENIER DE WIT The country's economy contracted 6.1% in real terms in the third quarter of 2020 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to data from Statistics SA... Read |
 | ISSUED BY EDGE GROWTH The Vumela Fund is excited to announce an equity investment into Inoxico, enabling the company to continue establishing itself as a commercial credit risk tech provider... Read |
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 | The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is calling for applications for its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. With the deadline fast approaching on 31 March 2021... Read |
 | SALIOU SAMB CONAKRY - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections... Read |
 | WILDU DU PLESSIS AND MORNE VAN DER MERWE In Part 1 of this series, we analysed merger-and-acquisition data in sub-Saharan Africa - here we look at country specific M&A activity in SA, Ethiopia and Ghana... Read |
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 | JARRED WEST The internet has become a major enabler in the sale of online counterfeit products, ensuring anonymity and providing counterfeiters with access to a global market... Read |
 | The National Empowerment Fund (NEF) in partnership with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) has established an Economic Distress Fund to provide concessionary business loans to Black-owned and managed enterprises... Read |
 | MICHAEL CHERRY University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers are expected to start a phase one clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate, hAd5 T-cell, later this month... Read |
 | KEVIN SOUTH To unlock the power of true digital transformation, leaders need to find ways to put digital first, encouraging everyone in a company to start thinking about... Read |
 | Founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has launched the XPrize Carbon Removal competition which aims to create... Read |
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