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Three kids need a little help – I can swing this from a BEE perspective

This email was sent to me today.  There are three kids who appear to be white based on the picture that need support.  I’ll make a contribution and I’m hoping that regular readers of this...

Independent Directors – AVC (Fred Wilson)

Boards are important. They might not do the day to day work of company building but they set the tone at the top. The group that the CEO reports to has a big impact on the CEO’s mindset which trickles...

African Mole and the Constitution – open Sesame

The Army Gymnasium in Heidelberg was graced with two special people in 1986, MC Snyman and an Adrian Molalike known as Fourie. MC Snyman is an institution but little is known about Fourie so I'll...

What Nene will not receive, measured in Nkandlas

Yesterday's post looked at the total cost of skills development for 9 companies. This table shows how much less money Nene (and SARS) is going to receive.  For those MPs who are numerically...

Skills training are coming – but how much of cost

The dti'S BROADEDING PARTICIPATION DIVISION have issued the attached notice. It's not very clear when the first certificates will be issued under the new codes because they write English as...

Junk status, BEE and Levenstuck

Thank goodness for Keith Levenstein. Those in the industry know that he knows not what he speaks of, and so he is a blogger's dream. In fact I reckon Hlaudi has already issued him with the very...

Journalistic licence – head in the Hlauds

"Dr Joseph Goebbels, minister of public enlightenment and propaganda was now systematically dismantling what remained of a free press in Germany. (H)e had assembled three hundred Berlin...

Construction not transforming: Nxesi. Just add water and you’ll have a fully qualified artisan

The country's construction sector needs massive transformation, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Thursday. "The industry has to transform and include black professionals. Engineers...

Unintended consequences of over-legislating (we aren’t alone)

The irony of Sarbanes-Oxley was that it was intended to prevent more Enrons and Worldcoms but it ended up being a gigantic tax on small companies. — @pmarcaThe IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains...