Black Business Council

This could be the most significant article written this year – trunceformaysheeyin be damned

The Daily Maverick is becoming the most valuable source of fine journalism in this country.  There is nothing that comes close to it.  By the way they are looking for financial support, if you are so inclined you can read more about this here. Back to the Maverick.  Dirk de Vos wrote a fantastic article […]

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Fair, equitable, cost effective and competitive. The Lord gives and the DTI takes away

Or something along those lines. I love how so many of our politicians including Mmusi are pastors. Even Manyi preaches his brand of racism at some church somewhere. But that's not the point of this post. Rob Davies really pushed the boat out when he tried to justify his little paragraph about limiting the shape

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Treasury, PPPFA and reforms

Craig Terblanche forwarded an interview with Kenneth Brown, National Treasury's chief procurement officer who been given the responsibility of overseeing the design and implementation of "rigorous procurement reforms" that Pravin wishes to implement. These reforms intend to improve infrastructure project management, strengthen service delivery, eliminate waste and root out corruption. The priority being to improve

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Who’s going to end up paying for this – why we are of course

Mal Ossie Gigaba has graced the hypertexted (and password protected) BDLive again. This time he was addressing the BMF. Mr Gigaba briefed the forum about business opportunities arising from the development of the Durban-Free State-Gauteng logistics and industrial corridor, which is the second strategic integrated project (SIP) of the national infrastructure plan. It is the

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BBC didn’t make the cut as a Prasa BEE partner

Prasa’s empowerment partner selection process came under attack last year from the Black Business Council. The umbrella body’s general secretary, Sandile Zungu, said allowing Prasa to choose BEE partners was "dangerous" and that it fed into "the stereotype that BEE is about handouts".  Mr Zungu could not be reached for comment on Thursday night. Neither

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BBC contemplates marching to Treasury – good idea because you aren’t going to get parking near their offices

BDLive carried this story this morning (and no I haven't subscribed and won't do so until they change their viewing rates). The Black Business Council (BBC) has long been upset with the PPPFA. With such ZumaLuminaries like Zungrabber on their board they are able to namedrop very effectively and force a meeting with Treasury to

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