In aid to tackle two of the most prevalent female cancers – On Friday, 28 March, Renowned local Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), PinkDrive, announced that it will add serious muscle to the country-wide fight against cervical cancer as it unveiled South Africa’s first Mobile Women’s Health Unit in the form of a fourteen ton truck. Described as a Doctor’s Room on Wheels, the Unit boasts a state-of-the-art gynaecology area for pap smears and examinations, a reception area for administration and a radiology area. “Aligned with the local government’s millennium goals and current campaigns, such as the large-scale human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinecampaign, expanding our... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, April 1st 2014 |
Leading international and South African companies and institutions will network on Monday 7th April at the Franschhoek Wine Valley to discuss the future of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market. Southern Africa is seen by multiple analysts as one of the most important regions to develop renewable energies globally. Recently, the CSP Today Markets Report 2014 highlighted the small size of the market and the uncertainty of MW capacity allocated to CSP as the most important barriers to market entry in South Africa, as determined by stakeholders. The new IRP dissipates doubts on these issues opening a whole new window... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, March 21st 2014 |
While Africa’s housing backlog can rightly be called a crisis, it is not an unsolvable one – according to Robert McGaffin, convener of an executive education short course at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) on housing finance in Sub-Saharan Africa. “The chronic backlog of affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa offers governments and funding institutions huge growth opportunities – if they are able to think a bit differently and better understand the context in which they are operating,” says McGaffin. Millions of people throughout Sub-Saharan Africa are unable to find affordable, adequate housing. For example, the 2013 Africa Housing... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, March 21st 2014 |
The UCT Graduate School of Business is launching a new programme this July that will help position SA companies to take advantage of emerging business opportunities in China. Despite slower economic growth in recent months, China remains one of the best places for investment and company expansion – but the need for careful planning and smart thinking is more important than ever. So says Rodney Man, professor at the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and course convenor of the new GSB course: Doing Business in China. Man is an expert when it comes to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, March 19th 2014 |
So proclaimed Hillary Clinton, US First Lady at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995, in a landmark speech of her career. Despite Clinton’s words echoing around the world for close on 20 years, one must ask: What has changed? Earlier this month, at a United Nations commemoration of International Women’s Day, Clinton said that important progress has been made, such as the increasing number of girls in school and women in elected office, and the repeal of many discriminatory laws. “Yet for all we have achieved together, this remains the great unfinished business of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, March 19th 2014 |
