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Agriculture forestry and fishingOther service activitiesSouth Africa
Scorecard Finds Fishing Firms Are Most Transparent
In many traditional African cultures, talking loudly avoids creating suspicions of secrecy — a gesture that could be well adopted by South African business. Transparency in business was an early...
Human health and social work activitiesPublic administration and defence compulsory social securitySouth Africa
JSE-listed Directors Still Mainly Pale Males — Majorities Grossly Under-Represented
Analysis of data by the independent research organisation Who Owns Whom reveals that active JSE-listed companies’ boards have directors who, on average, are relatively younger and who are serving in...
Human health and social work activitiesSouth Africa
Health Sector Continues to Grapple with a Crippling Shortage of Skilled Staff
The healthcare sector is confronted by numerous challenges, including what is termed the Quadruple Burden of Disease: infectious diseases, notably HIV and Tuberculosis; maternal and child mortality; non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension; and violence, injuries and trauma.
South AfricaWater supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities
Entrepreneurs Leverage Cleanliness
The soap and cleaning product manufacturing industry has created a number of innovative entrepreneurial start-ups such as Durban- based Elegant Line Chemicals founded by Nelly Shezi in 2007 which manufactures cleaning products and polishes for the domestic, industrial and automotive markets.
Other service activitiesSouth Africa
The Dry Cleaning and Laundry Industry Presents Franchise Opportunities for SMMEs
Although off-premise laundries have come under pressure as a result of a cyclical shift to on-premise laundry operations especially in the healthcare industry, the laundry sector still benefits significantly from ad-hoc outsourcing of laundry functions by government agencies. A number of franchise opportunities such as Laundry Dynamics, Pressed in Time, Eazi Laundromatic and Fresh Laundry have arisen.
Other service activitiesSouth Africa
Clarity About Investors Will Aid Graft War
SOUTH African company law has historically favoured those wishing to obscure corporate ownership. The clandestine section 15A of the Companies Act of 1973 allowed apartheid ministers of trade and industry...
South AfricaTransportation and storage
South African Taxi Industry
Taxi drivers are not the most popular people the world over, most certainly in South Africa. But there can be few more successful examples of creating order from chaos as...
South AfricaWater supply sewerage waste management and remediation activities
Waste Not Want Not
On his seven hour journey in February this year from Moscow to the Russian town of Rybinsk on the Volga River Philip Malandrinos did not know if his headache was...
