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Helping small enterprises can boost scorecard success

This was published in Real Business yesterday.  It provides an overview of our take on BEE and enterprise development and the opportunities both present. Helping small enterprises can boost...

New codes and deals

The pressure is mounting for the dti to release the final codes.  The myriad different interpretations of the codes can only lead to more confusion.  The Sunday Times ran a special feature...

Fuel giants warned to pump up BEE efforts

I wanted to stay out of this for a while, but I am now drawn in.  It was quite a surprise to see the headline on the front page of Business Day yesterday (Fuel giants warned to pump up BEE...

SA has to supply its own capital needs

Erwin is back in the paper talking about the importance of SA developing internationally competitive supplier industries to provide itself with the goods it needs.   In this article from...

Legal charter continued

Brigitte Mbandla spoke at the justice department’s conference yesterday.  The Business Day’s report doesn’t really say anything more than we expected.  Rhetoric abounds “We...

The Coega saga continues

Today’s Business Report carries this headline on the front page "Coega firm may be forced to award R82m building deal to Scribante".  As it turns out the winner of the tender...

Legal charter coming (Business Day, 14 Aug 06)

Just when you thought there were too many charters another one springs up.  The justice department claims that this charter goes beyond empowerment issues – “It is not one couched in the...

Update rating at no extra cost – Abva

ABVA is the Association of BEE Verification Agencies.  Their web site is useless and hopelessly out of date.  These guys are the body that controls rating or verification agencies and only...

An interesting statistic

Referring to my earlier post.  This article Mdladlana calls for more money for skills fund gives an idea of how many companies have a payroll less than R500k but more than R250k –...