Four of South Africa’s top Business schools have been listed in the prestigious 2014 Financial Times global ranking for Executive Education Customised Programmes, released this week. The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), the Gordon Institute of Business Science, Stellenbosch Business School and Wits Business School have each secured a spot in this annual ranking, which tracks the top business schools in this category and presents a global benchmark for providers of executive education. The customised ranking is calculated using data from two sets of online surveys – one for schools another for clients. Business schools... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, May 15th 2014 |
Major international mining firm Anglo-American PLC have been announced as an event speaker at PV Project Development Africa 2014 (9-10th September, Johannesburg). Anglo-American will be speaking at the event about the opportunities for solar PV to have a growing impact in supplying green, secure and cost effective electricity to heavy industry in Africa. They will also be joined at the event by national utility Eskom and key financiers Nedbank Capital and Investec. In a recent industry survey 51.4% of the PV industry in South Africa viewed industrial and commercial deployment as the best growth prospect in the next 5-10 years.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, May 5th 2014 |
….to Baby Moses Child Sanctuary- The donation is Allergan South Africa’s reward for placing second in the Allergan International Foundation Charity Challenge, which kicked off in November last year and culminated at the annual European Start Up Sales Conference in Tenerife, Spain, in January this year. Over the two-month period, marketing and sales staff from around the world were challenged to prove their everyday fitness by using pedometers to collect and collate their daily steps, which were then combined to create a countrywide score. The challenge culminated with a 5km or 10km run or walk on day one of the T1... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, May 5th 2014 |
An 89% majority vote at an extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) in Pretoria on Saturday, April 12, resulted in the adoption of the revised Memorandum of Incorporation and company rules of the SA Medical Association (SAMA). Achieving this unequivocal support from members has, to all intents and purposes, nullified recent attempts by alleged representatives of the so-called “Partner Organisations” – a minority remnant of SAMA’s early post-apartheid beginnings – to lay claim to equal representation in all leadership structures of SAMA. An all-time attendance record in terms of both proxies and attendees was reached at the EGM – a milestone that... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, April 24th 2014 |
Many of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises – Eskom, Telkom, SABC – remain mired in controversy as they battle to get to grips with the demands of a modern economy. Much could be learned from successes elsewhere in the world, such as in Poland. “Poland is the only European economy to have posted consistent growth during the long European recession,” says Sandra Burmeister, CEO of Amrop Landelahni. “Could the transformation of its SOEs in the post-communist era lie at the heart of its achievements? “Poland’s success story indicates that ‘state capitalism’ can be something other than a contradiction in terms.” In... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, April 24th 2014 |
