Here’s some great  midweek brain food. Andrew Horton, a business keynote speaker based in SA and operating internationally, spends a lot of time reading and thinking about issues the rest of us drop down the priority list because they don’t fit into busy daily schedules. In this blog, he looks at how to stimulate creativity … Read more
Hi there, There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes than watching The Internship. Especially once you accept it’s really a long Google advert masquerading as a movie. At R25 through Box Office, it’s money and time well invested. The movie is mostly fun with lots of jokes. But a serious message does emerge: just how … Read more
The 40 year graph of SA’s quarterly Business Confidence Index shows the country to be a lot better off than the media mood would suggest. Sure, there’s been a downturn, but nothing near the experience of previous cycles. And some sectors are positively rocking. Like parts of the construction industry exposed to State infrastructure spend … Read more
15 November 2013 Khotso Mokhele:Â My name is Khotso Mokhele. I stand here in my capacity as Chairperson of the board of Adcock Ingram. And it is indeed a pleasure and a privilege for me to stand here in front of you today. I want to particular express my appreciation. I did not know that journalists … Read more
Some people are born entrepreneurs; many of us are forced entrepreneurs, as small business expert Irvine Green reminds us in his latest blog. Whether we fancy a career as a business person, or not, many of us are obliged to think like an entrepreneur or we can’t work at what we love doing. Even artists … Read more
The Biznewz community is well aware of concerns around our society’s slide to disinterested mediocrity. Russell Loubser’s warning about what he described as Drift was one of the site’s best read articles. Last week former Finance Minister and now head of National Planning Trevor Manuel picked up on the theme. But Manuel’s speech, borrowed from … Read more
Hi there, The most magical thing in life is hope. With just a smidgeon, mankind becomes able to bear incredible hardship. Without it, even the most privileged life can become a gilded cage. A pit of despair from which there seems no escape. Occasionally one bumps into fellow South Africans whose lives are so dark … Read more
Around the world, the pattern is the same – as incomes and education levels rise, birth rates fall. What’s happening now, however, is an even more marked . In rich countries around the world, birthrates are falling below replacement level fertility – people are no longer having enough kids to replace themselves. In this interesting … Read more
Right now, South Africa’s mining sector is a deep value investor’s dream. Apart from its shared exposure to falling commodity prices, local miners have had to absorb soaring energy costs, turbulent labour and uncertain legislation. So one might have expected a subdued mood at the 2013 Joburg Mining Indaba which ended today. Not so. While … Read more
Powerful women have a reputation for keeping other women down in an organisation and are often seen as brash because they have wealth. But there is a glimmer of hope for their behaviour and reputation, with a new frontier of feminism emerging in the corporate world. It’s called executive feminism. Natalie Maroun, an expert on … Read more