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BizNews offered Comair a right of reply. Here is the airline’s brief response to the allegations it is a business bully that has acted unethically, at the very least.
23rd October 2019
For more than 50 years, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett was perhaps known as the “book value’s” biggest fan.
23rd October 2019
Research shows a trend back towards pure audio, versus the ubiquitous text and video-messaging or a toggled combination of all three.
23rd October 2019
Lying in loving corporate arms is a contradiction in terms because the beast has no soul; but it can be populated by talented, kind, insightful and loyal people.
23rd October 2019
Time is running out for South Africans wanting to take advantage of the “Rolls Royce” immigration option - the EB-5 Investor Green Card.
23rd October 2019
Major WeWork shareholder SoftBank has gone ahead with a roughly $10bn deal to take control of WeWork and oust co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann.
23rd October 2019
Taxpayers are to fund another R54bn to bail out Eskom. The Special Appropriation Bill will see the government give the troubled power utility R26bn in the year through March.
23rd October 2019
The latest corporate collapse demonstrates that KPMG rivals PwC and EY are of the same ilk with the Thomas Cook saga.
23rd October 2019
Russia will land the world’s biggest military aircraft in South Africa, the Tupolev Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ bomber, in a rare display of cooperation between the defense forces of the two countries.
23rd October 2019
Core inflation rate fell to the lowest in almost eight years in September, leading to a decline in the annual headline reading, which could raise pressure on the central bank to cut its benchmark rate.
23rd October 2019
Prosus NV swooped in with a £5bn bid for UK food delivery company Just Eat, challenging an agreed combination with Takeaway.com NV.
22nd October 2019
South African Airways may operate an amended flight schedule Tuesday following a decision to recall some of its aircraft to undertake compliance verification in line with South African Civil Aviation Authority requirements.
22nd October 2019
If the ranting of Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott is anything to go by, criticising Extinction Rebellion (XR) will soon be made illegal.
17th October 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority found that Dave King had acted in concert with others to gather a level of shareholding which should have required him, as the Scottish Herald notes, to launch a full bid for the club.
15th October 2019
Speaking in London, Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africa was dogged by corruption in the public and private sector, which has cost the country close to R1trn.
14th October 2019
Drawing insightful similarities between two seemingly unconnected “news events,’ is only possible because of the utility of social media and easily-spread fake news.
10th October 2019
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on citizens to pay their electricity bills. Eskom is owed about R24bn.
22nd October 2019
Technological advances in healthcare are continuing at a breakneck speed and this article takes a look at the roles being played by AI, MIP and mental health.
21st October 2019
Helen Zille has been elected as the head of the Democratic Alliance’s Federal Council in a return to a leadership role in the party.
21st October 2019
Eskom, which provides about 95% of South Africa’s electricity, cut 2,000 megawatts from the grid due to unplanned breakdowns at its plants.
18th October 2019
According to Muhammed Sayed, when you pick apart the droppings of this media Trojan Horse, there’s not very much substance to be found.
21st October 2019
Wildfires are becoming more common and devastating as seen in recent cases in Australia and California, while Cape Town is also no stranger to fires.
18th October 2019
South Africa is said to have a triple problem of poverty, unemployment and inequality. Chuck Stephens thinks those three words are intentionally strung backwards.
18th October 2019
There is no doubt that the government’s plans to expropriate land has, as Chuck Stephens from the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership puts it, “created a situation.”
16th October 2019
The pessimism in our national psyche has reached epic proportions and has prompted Jarette Petzer to start a movement on Facebook called #ImStaying.
22nd October 2019
The now ubiquitous IQ test was first used on a large scale to assess the capabilities of candidates for the American military during World War I.
16th October 2019
So when a movement like #ImStaying starts to take shape, 670,000 supporters, it's no surprise with the amount of mixed reaction it receives.
14th October 2019
Ramaphosa’s new economic advisory council was unveiled and photographed at its first meeting and represents a mix of academia with a sprinkle of economists.
11th October 2019
Optimism becomes extra powerful when paired with high conscientiousness and a social conscience. Business leaders and investors have the chance to shape the narrative.
21st October 2019
The Global Impact Investing Network 2019 survey pinpoints the major impact investing trend as asset allocation to energy, microfinance and other financial services.
17th October 2019
Richemont says if local depositary receipt holders have not received their reclaim forms by month end they should get in touch.
15th October 2019
Ryk Neethling has spent the past decade alongside four other directors who together have built South Africa’s premier estate, Val de Vie.
15th October 2019
Some of the job-prepping activities on this menu may be a bit rich for your taste, but it’s all about finding what fits for you - and then crushing the job interview to land the job.
22nd October 2019
For the more ethical, when there’s a disjuncture between who you are and how you’re projected on social media, you simply pack it in.
21st October 2019
Not enough effort has been made to engage left-behind “Tree People”. The inevitable has happened. They are tired of having their trees turned into canoes.
21st October 2019
While the specific tale of Comair’s acquisition of Metaco is unique, the story of failed acquisitions is as old as corporations themselves.
19th October 2019