Comment on this article here on South Africans and their savings culture as compared to places like Japan and other Asian countries….
Savings in Africa is a huge cultural problem. In a lot of ways, the continent is only beginning to understand the implications of debt and how to manage it. Unfortunately, while the banks have [...]
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Event Name : Energy Auditing
Event Dates : 27th & 28th November 2008
Venue : Johannesburg, South Africa
Contact : Joyce Ho
Email : joyce.h@unistrategic.com with subject code of “EA-MH”
Tel : 65 68259674
Web : http://www.unistrategic.com/index.php/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,4/did,128/func,details/
Event Brief : The Energy Auditing workshop presents a vital opportunity for professionals involved in Energy Management to learn effective and decisive ways to enhance [...]
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Johannesburg, Jo’burg, Jozi - whatever you call it - has one of the proudest reputations of African cities on the continent. Over the last few years, there has been quite a lot of talk about upgrading the CBD and attracting business to the town in an effort to restore it to a “world class” African [...]
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A new R700-million private equity fund has been launched with the aim of investing in the buoyant agribusiness sector across sub-Saharan Africa. The Agri-Vie Fund, formed by Sanlam Private Equity and the investment group Strategy Partners, will focus on entrepreneurs involved in the agribusiness value chain, rather than directly in the farming industry. It offers an [...]
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Exhibition Management Services have released their 2008 Post Show Report for the Africa Big 7 exhibition held recently:
Number of exhibitors: 239 companies
Participating countries: China, Cyprus, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia,Mozambique, Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA & Zambia
* Visitors registered 7,128 (2007- 6,731 / 2006- 6,997)
* From 43 [...]
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I’ve been listening to some of this chatter about the new government Food Control Agency and one question keeps bugging me - why do we want to ‘control’ something when first prize is making more of it?!
Read the complete article here.
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Tiger Brands, South Africa`s leading branded food and healthcare company, announced yesterday its intention to acquire 74.7% of the shares of consumer chocolate manufacturer Chococam in Cameroon from Barry Callebaut, the world`s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products. The remaining 25.3% of the shares are held by a number of small private shareholders.
Founded [...]
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VenFin yesterday announced the launch of InVenFin, an early stage Intellectual Property (IP) venture capital fund.
Jannie Durand InVenFin Chairman and VenFin CEO commented: “We have established InVenFin to provide specialist funding and support to inventors at an early stage, to develop their IP and eventually succeed in corporatising it, which sets the platform to realise [...]
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It was something I touched on a while back, but I sincerely believe that there would be some value in an “African Stock Exchange” or market to bolster the continent. The continent is resource rich but under developed and much of its problems stem from the lack of financial investment into the continent.
But lets be [...]
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The thought of an ANC led government was music to many ears but a thought too far for others. Many, both within South Africa and beyond our borders forecast bloodshed. Indeed almost every foreign media was present before the 1994 elections to witness the ‘bloodshed’ that was sure to ensue. The peaceful transition following the [...]
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