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Don’t leave the implementation up to the HR department.

I wrote this article in for the 16th October 2006 edition of Real Business.  I have spoken a bit about music as my ultimate hobby.  Every now and then I incorporate certain musicians into my...

We theorists have it so easy

Caird was invited to present at a conference in Kayamandi in Stellenbosch on Monday.  It was a complete eye opener for us.  The conference was organised by HOPE Africa and the Finland South...

dti giving us the code shoulder

Bad puns for a bad story.  I posted something on the 8th of October about a Finweek (5 October) article on the about-to-be-published BBBEE codes of good practice, this week’s Finweek (26...

Rabbitt reissued

Whilst this blog is effectively about BEE and other related issues, the temptation sometimes becomes a little too great to write about other things.  90% of the time, those other things are...

Fronting and other misadventures

Caird spent an afternoon with a BEE deal maker, a rather successful one at that.  He offered a bit of the dirt on some of the deals he’s done in the past, without mentioning names.  If...

Selling off assets

Two recent articles in different publications discuss the sale of a company’s assets and the implication this will have on the seller’s BEE status. There are different rationales behind...

What’s wrong with the Sunday Independent?

I typically blog because of something I’ve read or heard, this why I don’t keep to a strict timetable.  My blog submissions often refer to online articles, and this is why this...

Gidani yer bike

Uthingo‘, the former national lottery operator, lost the tender to continue operating the lottery.  The winner was the very controversial Gidani consortium.  There have been numerous...

Ingredients to make the economy grow

The Business Day carried this submission today, Ingredients to make an economy grow.  It’s written by Augusto Lopez-Claros, the chief economist for World Economic Forum.  Lopez-Claros...