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For centuries, it seems, South African culture has divided public and private sectors into “us” and “them”. Partly for historic reasons, but also because of disrespect for the other side, mostly born from ignorance.
This story has valence by dint of its almost unassailable natural logic, the basic argument being that liquified natural gas could transform our economy and solve a slew of problems.
After years of bugging Econet, they eventually sold Lobster Ink to this major multinational for “a handsome multiple of its $26m annual revenues”.
The Coega Special Economic Zone in Nelson Mandela Bay says year to date, 18 new investors have signed R2.6bn in investments, with close to R1bn coming from the private sector.
When Nick Sloane, a seasoned salvage operator published his plan of guiding icebergs from Antarctica to Cape Town to solve the city’s acute water problem; many people thought it was a far-fetched idea.
Lyndsey Duff returned home to help introduce the revolutionary What3words system into a country that desperately needs to extend benefits of the formal economy to millions excluded from it.
It was only in January that Alec became acquainted with a supercharged version that is now being marketed globally by a company called well, Veldskoen.
South African motorcycling star Brad Binder is joining an elite group of Red Bull rookies next year.
The Iqabungelihle garden project in KwaMashu was started by a group of seven unemployed matriculants and registered as a cooperative in December 2017.
In this podcast, entrepreneur Gideon Galloway shares his thinking behind the R140m acquisition of Stangen and how a presentation by a BMW executive got him started towards creating the disruptive short-term insurer King Price.