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A reader writes

My good friend Greg Durst of Endeavor sent me an email regarding small business in South Africa. 87% of black entrepreneurs are in the informal sector – which makes it hard to find the next black...

Get a little more on HP

I was thinking that when my Dell finally packs it in I would get a HP.  They have been praised from the rooftops for dong this.  Even old jungle jim has offered his two cents in...

The rubicon is crossed

The floodgates have opened.  HP are the voortrekkers of equity equivalents ek se.  The front page of this morning’s Business Day announced the news  boldly – HP gets BEE...

A few stats

It has been said that every large multinational started out as a small business.  Hewlett- Packard started out in the forties in a garage (more on them a little later).  The Business Times...

On the lighter side

OK I said in the last post that there would be no more Jimmy-ing the system.  I did notice in the Business Day today that Jabu Moleketi (Deputy Finance Minister) has defended outspoken Public...

It’s white Jim, but not as we know it

  Alexander Forbes appoints a white executive chairman and the process predictably gets labeled racist by Jimmy.   That was yesterday’s news.  This morning the Business Day...

Multinationals

I had heard nothing about multinationals applying for equity equivalents.  But the Business Day tells us that numerous companies have submitted proposals to the DTI. “A lot of them have come with...

BEE news

I blogged about the Presidential Black Business Working Group wanting stronger laws to enforce the implementation of BEE.  The Business Report carried an article yesterday about this. ...

Bite size tjanks

Fortunately for me I came across the Star today and was greeted by a startling headline on the front page of the Business Report.  "BEE needs teeth if it is going to bite, state...