MAILBOX: Dou Pienaar – Get testicular fortitude, push back hard against politicians
Dou Pienaar urges business leaders and citizens alike to foster “testicular fortitude” and push back against ineffective governance.
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🔒 Premium: Peter Thiel’s dumping Facebook raises business execs in politics conundrum
Silicon Valley icon Peter Thiel said he will now focus on supporting Trump-Agenda candidates – and cut a 16 year relationship with Facebook.
CEO activism – Johann Rupert et al’s catch-22 situation
Professor Ameashi says ‘business leaders can no longer stand by and watch from the sidelines’ and plots a course of action for CEOs to bring ethics into their businesses.
Questioning Cyril’s economic reform – big business fretful
South African business leaders are becoming frustrated with the pace of reform under President Cyril Ramaphosa. His cabinet choices and spending pledges haven’t helped.
The 2017 SheEO SleepOut in numbers
In 2017, The CEO SleepOut showcased a special chapter Event, The SheEO SleepOut, which saw notable female business leaders and influencers spend a night sleeping outdoors at Constitution Hill Johannesburg.
Inaugural CEO SleepOut in 2015 raised R26.4 million
In one winter’s night, business leaders from around the country, inspired by true empathy, raised in excess of R26 million, making it the single most successful philanthropic event in South Africa’s history.
An old dog doesn’t have to learn new tricks: Olderpreneurs in the UK
In the UK, a new generation of entrepreneurs with skills, experience and finances are starting businesses for the first time and they’re making a success of it. They are the ‘olderpreneurs’.
OBIT: Mike Rosholt – POW, Apartheid critic, promoter of Sullivan Principles and SA Business Titan
One of South Africa’s business titans, Mike Rosholt, the former CEO and then Chairman of Barlow Rand, died peacefully in his sleep last week at the age of 97.
#Pravingate broke camel’s back: Govt, business trust destroyed – Mabuza
Business leaders said trust between the government and the private sector was destroyed when President Jacob Zuma fired his finance minister Pravin Gordhan in March.
Too little too late? Zuma meets with SA CEOs post-Pravingate
President Jacob Zuma will meet with business leaders to discuss the country’s credit-rating downgrades and his surprise cabinet reshuffle.