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| SiMODiSA, a South African start-up and entrepreneurship initiative focused on job creation is collaborating with Africa's leading Incubators, Accelerators and Start-up ecosystem players to identify a winner for its inaugural 10-10 Get-Up Start-Up Stage. read more>> |
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| Zimkhitha Mqutheni According to Naveen Jain, a business executive, entrepreneur and Forbes magazine contributor: "Philanthropy is not about giving money, but about solving problems". read more>> |
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| Leather goods manufacturer Research Unit has won the Cape Talk 567 Small Business Awards and Sweet Temptations Toffees and Perfect Hideaways were the runners-up. read more>> |
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| Marc Hasenfuss In August, Value Group - a consistent profit performer for the past dozen years - stunned the market with a dire trading update, warning that its interim earnings could be down by between 70% and 90% and its share price dropped from 500c to 412c, a 12-month low. read more>> |
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| Mark Allix The month-long strike by metal workers in July had a drastic effect on the output of the metals and engineering sector, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) says. read more>> |
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| South African Employers for Disability (SAE4D) has commented on the proposed draft Social Inclusion Policy Framework for higher education and training institutions. read more>> |
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| Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr's employment seminar which was recently held in Johannesburg was attended by DLA Piper's Africa partner firms from Mozambique, Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. read more>> |
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| Nick Hedley Ketso Gordhan‚ who resigned as chief executive of PPC a week ago‚ is gearing up for a battle for his reinstatement‚ lining up a series of meetings this week with shareholders to build support. read more>> |
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| The Department of Health has appealed to the country's private sector to donate to the Ebola Response Fund to assist the countries affected by the virus. read more>> |
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| While employees of the past focussed strongly on climbing the next rung of the corporate ladder, findings of the Kelly Global Workforce Index 2014 (KGWI) suggest that this is no longer the case. read more>> |
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| Career Online High School and the Southern African Virtual School have partnered to provide South Africans with the opportunity to earn accredited American high school diplomas. read more>> |
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| If insurance is not already on students' radar as a career choice, it should be. However, the mere word insurance makes people cringe when it is mentioned as a career pathway, but why? read more>> |
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| SHANGHAI, CHINA: US software company Adobe will shut its research arm in Beijing by the end of the year, laying off 350 people, according to a statement, as foreign technology firms face a worsening business climate in China. read more>> |
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| Mining was one of the key industries in the South African economy with a total income of R408bn in 2012, says Statistician General Pali Lehohla. read more>> |
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| Good progress has been made in the provision of basic services over the first quarter of ANC's government's new term in office according to the Chairman of the Governance and Administration Cluster and Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba. read more>> |
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| Government has established a central database of disciplinary cases in the public service in order to speed up the resolution of cases. read more>> |
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| An external evaluation has shown that the Western Cape saw 38% of its 246 agricultural land reform projects in the province failing and another 24% experiencing "challenges". read more>> |
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| Evan Pickworth President Jacob Zuma's choice of Thomas Moyane as Commissioner of the South African Revenue Services (SARS) fills a gaping hole left after Oupa Magashula resigned in the aftermath of a scandal in July last year. read more>> |
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