Dr Nondumiso Mzizana, Businesswomen’s Association’s Businesswoman of the Year for 2011 is hosting her second annual Entrepreneurial Success Summit at the luxurious Sheraton Hotel in Pretoria. The year 2012 saw the success of her entrepreneurial initiative launch.at the African Pride Hotel in Melrose Arch, which boasted a powerhouse of speakers, aspiring and established entrepreneurs. Success Summit aims to take entrepreneurs to greater heights through a series of business summits with speakers who are industry and government leaders. Its mission is to not only connect but to also empower as Success Summit has added a twist to its formula this year. Success Summit,... Continue Reading
UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) lecturer, Francois Bonnici, has joined distinguished leaders from around the continent on one of Africa’s premier leadership initiatives – the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme (ATLP). Bonnici, Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the GSB, is only the second UCT faculty member to have this honour. The flagship programme of the African Leadership Institute, the ATLP seeks to develop a supportive network of future leaders that will have the capacity and vision to transform the African continent. While the Tutu Fellowship is not the only programme that focuses on... Continue Reading
By Hassan Abbas, Dodoma – The government of Tanzania has informed the National Assembly in Dodoma Thursday that it is ready to implement recommendations from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Report for Tanzania. The promise was issued in the country’s political Capital of Dodoma during the discussion of the budget estimates for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Membe said after completion of the governance review exercise, the next task is for the government to implement APRM report. “I would like to inform your August House that President Jakaya Kikwete presented Tanzania’s APRM... Continue Reading
By Pam Moore – The HR function are becoming strategic role players in promoting innovative approaches at companies. Reinvention and creative thinking in terms of novel services, new markets and organisational functioning have become crucial in modern-day business. No longer seen as merely administrative, HR departments are increasingly taking on strategic roles in the business world. Innovation is a broad ranging term that includes not only the generation of creative ideas but bringing them to fruition and executing them. Different organisations approach innovation differently. Many mass market organisations believe that they should ask customers and respond to their needs. Here... Continue Reading
Harare, May 30th 2013: United States Ambassador Bruce Wharton on Wednesday called on local finance institutions to provide more loans to women in agriculture and encouraged Zimbabwe’s government authorities to improve legal support and public services for women farmers. The diplomat was speaking at a one-day ‘Women in Agriculture’ workshop in Harare sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “It is vital to increase women’s access to finance and credit,” said Ambassador Wharton. “My government would like to find practical homegrown solutions for women to access credit…and help women to participate actively and equally in the economy of Zimbabwe.” The Women... Continue Reading
