Call centres bring in jobs, millions for Western Cape 2005-02-14 10:17:01
New investment commitments of R380 million were made in the Western Cape call centre industry last year, resulting in more than 2 000 new jobs, said Luke Mills, executive director of CallingtheCape.
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BEE company increases stake in drum-maker 2005-02-14 10:17:01
OD Investments - a black empowerment consortium headed by Kwazulu-Natal entrepreneur Dr Oscar Dhlomo - has increased its stake in national metal drums, pails and cans manufacturer, Rheem, from 50.1% to 72.6%, the company revealed last week.
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Why people commit fraud and what you can do about it 2005-01-31 09:45:01
Last week I said that a fundamental building block of an organisation's vulnerability to fraud is that executives very often refuse to accept that fraud will happen in their organisation. Hopefully, last week's article debunked that idea.
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Optimism rampant in SA business circles 2005-01-31 09:46:01
South African business owners secured second spot as the most optimistic among their peers in the world in the 2005 Grant Thornton International Business Owners Survey (IBOS), released last week.
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Reducing the cost of litigation 2004-04-07 06:30:01
Often potential litigants do not realise the costs of becoming involved in litigation. A common misconception is that a successful litigant would recover all or substantially all of his or her costs. This, however, may not be the case.
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Turning old scrap into new car parts 2004-03-31 06:30:01
One doesn't think of a foundry as something glamorous and attracting much attention. The feeling is that foundries belong to the era of blacksmiths, who themselves seem somewhat old-fashioned leftovers from a pre-technical age. Indeed, some readers might be surprised they even exist.
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Going wireless 2004-04-01 06:30:01
Undoubtedly wireless technology has the potential to change the way people and companies communicate and conduct business. As a technology, wireless has been with us for some time. But it has been seen as prohibitively expensive, too technical and out of reach of most small to medium-size businesses.
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Open-pan sugar industry gets a boost 2004-03-17 06:30:01
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism has teamed up with private sector interests to launch a low technology sugar milling industry, calculated to vastly increase small-scale cane production and complement the existing high technology sector.
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RBCT to expand operations 2004-03-10 06:30:01
A memorandum of agreement between Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) and the National Ports Authority will lead to the long-awaited construction of the Phase 5 expansion of RBCT, which will increase the terminal's capacity from 72Mt to 86Mt by 2007.
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Durban's icons echo through chamber halls 2004-03-10 06:30:01
The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry has published a glossy magazine paying tribute to its long standing members - a publication with interesting insights into the beginnings of some of the city's most well known businesses.
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Shipyard's new lease of life 2004-03-10 06:30:01
Just when it looked dead and buried, along comes another opportunity for a Durban shipyard to build new tugs for the National Ports Authority.
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Turning trends into winning strategy 2004-03-10 06:30:01
In an award-winning building they helped design, set among landscaped gardens in Kloof, smiling people look up from their desks to watch birds bathe in the pond outside.
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Trademark parasites beware 2004-03-03 06:30:01
Trademarks are often highly valuable assets of a business and, as such, evidence the distinctiveness of its goods and services. Well-known or famous trademarks are the result of considerable investment and brand-building and the reputation associated with such marks is attractive fruit for piggy-backing parasites who wish to profiteer on the coat-tails of reputable marks.
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Cox Yeats wins PMR Diamond Arrow award 2004-03-03 06:30:01
Roger Green and his partners at the Durban legal firm Cox Yeats will be popping the bubbly later this month when the company is presented with the Diamond Arrow Award.
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New terminal bears fruit 2004-03-03 06:30:01
A new fruit terminal at Maydon Wharf 7 is expected to open on March 31 in time for the coming citrus season. The terminal, Commercial Cold Storage (CCS), a subsidiary of Oceana Group Ltd, has entered into partnership with SA Port Operations (Sapo) to construct the specialised steri-citrus facility for the Japanese market.
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Budget good news for mining industry, pensions 2004-02-26 06:30:01
At first sight this year's Budget contained little that was memorable. For most of us it meant a minor reduction in income tax and a fairly substantial increase in the duties on alcohol and tobacco.
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Home workers as stressed as office counterparts 2004-02-25 06:30:01
Earning a living working from home is just as stressful as being employed in an office or a factory, according to a report by a leading research institute.
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Breathless as the big beams come down 2004-02-25 06:30:01
If veteran crane man David Wilkinson allowed himself to worry about it all at the same time, his head might have exploded or his heart popped clean out of his chest.
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Enterprising teachers vital 2004-02-25 06:30:01
'The single most important objective for education in South Africa has to be job creation - without this we face massive social problems," says Dr Michael Rice of Opionscape.
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Getting an A for home work 2004-02-25 06:30:01
Whether you work from home or just take work home to complete, you need a home office that'll make your creative juices flow, writes Lindsay Ord ...
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Projects for Africa 2004-02-25 06:30:01
So, what turns a medium-sized professional services firm operating out of Ridge Road in Durban into a company with contracts to build plant worth more than a R1 billion across Africa, and work as far afield as Fiji?
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Clothing industry a thin thread from bare 2004-02-20 06:30:01
Ten years ago it was one of the biggest companies in the clothing sector, employing about 1 000 people. But now the days of BMD Textiles seem numbered.
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Planned reserve to boost jobs in Knysna 2004-02-20 06:30:01
Greg Metzer, the marketing director for the proposed
177 hectare Knysna River Reserve, said in a recent report that the reserve would create over 2 600 jobs during its construction period and 970 permanent jobs once the reserve was complete.
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Crafters get window on world 2004-02-20 06:30:01
In months to come, top local crafters are set for a bold step into the business world when they launch their home-grown products at four premier events on the Western Cape calendar.
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Medical bill coding 'a victory' 2004-02-20 06:30:01
The national health department's plans to make diagnostic coding on medical bills compulsory this year, has been hailed by major healthcare consultancy Lekana.
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Crackdown on stolen metal 2004-02-20 06:30:01
A new law is set to clamp down on unscrupulous scrap metal dealers who are profiting from the sale of stolen copper and aluminium materials.
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Small business tax to be reviewed 2004-02-20 06:30:01
Small business must wait a little longer before it will know exactly what the Budget has in store for it. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel did not refer specifically to emerging business when he delivered his Budget yesterday, but did announce that a review group would be set up to examine the tax burden of small businesses.
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Leg-up for small businesses 2004-02-20 06:30:01
Today small medium and micro enterprises constitute almost 100 percent of all Swedish incorporated companies and employ the majority of the population but it was not always the norm.
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