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The ANC confirms its support for BEE – now what? Or more accurately – SO WHAT!!

It is a tragedy that the ANC and its secretary general get any press at all.  It has been years since the ANC was vaguely relevant.  What is amusing though is the level of Cyril-bashing...

Settle down, write a book

When I was 16 I wanted to be Chuck Berry.  I got to him through the Beatles who recorded a lot of his songs.  A school friend gave me a double cassette of Berry tracks and that was me for...

Are equity equivalents a solution to the 30% black ownership requirement for ICASA licenses?

There is a hard and fast rule that must be adhered to when applying for a Electronic communications network services (ECNS) license through ICASA, and that is that 30% of the shareholding must be held...

PEER LEARNING FOR EFFECTIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT

A story was told to us recently about 42 pupils whose school went bankrupt in their final year of high school.  Not having the financial means to move schools, the pupils decided to teach...

Why should we do it?

It's a question I hear more often now.  Why should we bother with a BEE certificate?   I know of a large company that went out of its way to get to a level 2 last year that is...

Let’s say you wanted to report fronting to whoever and you don’t know what to do – why didn’t you ask me first?

As is the blogger's wont, we love to create improbable scenarios that cover as many possible fronting incidences. South Africa loves racism, the anc loves racism the most because it gives them...

Proof that SANAS is behaving like a legislator

The email below was sent out by a verification agency because SANAS found a certificate to be non-conformant.  SANAS (or the person that represented them – I wanted to write moron, but I...

In which the potential future of empowerment policies is discussed

There’s no doubt that the black economic empowerment Pandora’s box has been opened.  The resistance against the policy is steadily increasing.  I have laboured this point ad nauseum on...

WE CAN’T SAVE YOU MONEY ON DISABLED AND BURSARY SKILLS SPEND

No one can.  But we can save you an absolute fortune in general skills development spend (6-8 points depending on the code) and achieve better training results We’re sure that this is not the...