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I want to do this – BEE tax breaks. Join me in my crusade

There is a skill to sending out a press release.  You need to write a decent one, have a good mailing list and choose the perfect moment.  I did none of the three, well I wrote the basis...

Tax cuts for BEE performance mooted

A few years ago I was invited to speak at a conference in Stellenbosch.  I stayed with David Meintjies, who was the former CEO of UUNET South Africa (which is now MTN Business I think).  I...

Zuma’s state of the nation – a BEE perspective

This is a BEE blog – hence I only pay attention to those issues that impact on BEE.  I didn't think the speech was that bad – big on ideas and short on plans.  But perhaps...

Dankie vir Fokol or should that be Fókól

A while ago I came across a red wine called Fókól.    This wine has become my calling card – I first test drove it at  the ATKV a year ago.  I was recently there and I...

Star Workplace article

Theo Garrun is probably one of the most influential people in the HR/employment world.  For those of you who don't know him – he's the editor of (amongst other things) the Star...

Regulations published on Tuesday in Zimbabwe declaring that large companies must hand blacks a 51 per cent stake within five years were summarily dismissed as "null and void" by Prime...

I had a firm in Africa

  This just in from Fin24.  It could be sensational journalism or it could actually happen.  Two years ago I was in Vic Falls for a wedding and I spoke to a few business owners who...

More on the BEE Council meeting on Thursday

This blog's job is to be the new aggregator.  As I mentioned in a few posts ago, you get different perspectives of events from different publications and when you put the lot together you...

Active companies/entities in SA up to 2009

I was asked by Brigitte Brun where I got my figure of 500,000 enitities that would need a scorecard. I took this information from the latest CIPRO stats. Here is a diagram of the breakdown   The...