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latest news & developmentsUnlocking Africa’s Potential: Brand SA and BUSA Shine at Investing in Africa Conference 2024
The event showcased the country’s competitive advantages, world-class infrastructure, and talented workforce
Empowering South African SMEs: Brand SA’s London Investment Week Initiative
The platform allowed the small businesses to pitch for funding, connect with potential partners and showcase their work to a global audience
Public wage bill is impeding SA’s growth prospects — Busa
Business Unity South Africa is eager to talk to its social partners at Nedlac about how the spiralling public-sector wage bill can be tamed. And the organisation says these talks…
Businesses should use alternative energy sources, industry bodies advise
Business associations are urging companies to continue seeking alternative energy sources in light of Eskom’s court judgement which would allow the utility to bump up electricity…
Labour court rules banking strike unlawful
Cosatu and Sasbo say the banking strike is not cancelled but suspended after the labour court ruled it unlawful
Trump’s twichy Twitter fingers add to SA woes
When the US president is not stoking the flames of white nationalism on Twitter, he is playing chicken in a trade war with the Chinese.
BUSA, Sacci at odds over petition to remove Mkhwebane as Public Protector
In a statement issued on Wednesday, BUSA said Mkhwebane is not "competently and fairly" upholding the Constitution
Ramaphosa: ‘Historic’ minimum wage to come into effect on January 1 2019
Ramaphosa signed four bills into law in late November to give effect to a R3 500 monthly national minimum wage for most categories of workers.
Move over, here comes Tito
A tough nut, Mboweni is likely to make the treasury the undisputed centre of economic power and policy
Job summit glosses over skills problem
South Africa, amid fast-changing technology, is producing skilled people, but not enough of them
Dark clouds gather over jobs summit
Ramaphosa has his work cut out to rally everyone behind his vision and some are already grumbling
Ramaphosa’s Jobs Summit plan to create 275 000 new jobs annually
Unless the country did something ‘extraordinary’, Ramaphosa notes that South Africa will not be able to reduce the unemployment rate to 6% by 2030
Businesses expected to agree to publish pay ratios at Jobs Summit
Businesses are already required to report income differentials under the Employment Equity Act
Watch your job, the bots are coming
Automation is replacing manual workers at a rapid rate. What will be the ‘safe’ careers of the future?
Busa raises concerns about Eskom
Business Unity South Africa has urged Eskom to let it help find ways to improve the power parastatal’s sustainability and avoid a tariff hike.