Transnet Acting CEO Siyabonga Gama tells Tim Modise that Black Economic Empowerment is an imperative for the growth and future of South Africa’s economy. He says the R30 billion loan from China is going to be used to build locomotives that will generate 55 000 new jobs. He says Transnet…
Julius Malema says the compromises at the CODESA talks set the economic empowerment of black South Africans back in the rush to obtain political freedom. He says the state is competent enough to run national banks and mining companies, citing China as an example. He says the DA’s Mmusi Maimane…
The South African contingent among the WEF's Young Global Leaders programme has some auspicious graduates, JSE chief executive Nicky Newton King, global social entrepreneur Taddy Blacher and sought-after analyst Martyn Davies among them. The latest intake includes Hanneli Rupert, scion of SA's most powerful business family. As you'll hear in…
Alec Hogg speaks to the founder of Springage Raelene Rorke, discussing her career from the early days in Umtata to being a part of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers program.
For over a decade, I've had the privilege of sharing the same WEF-week Davos hotel with a team from Deloitte. That provided a fast track to the firm's global leaders, including super-smart Gary Coleman who has shared many insights over the years on the way he sees the business world…
President of the Progressive Professionals Forum Jimmy Manyi tells Tim Modise that private sector corruption is much worse than what is happening in the public sector through initiatives like ‘transfer pricing’ and that the media is colluding in its silence. He goes on to say that corporate South Africa is…
Alec Hogg speaks to General George Casey, former U.S. army chief of staff, about managing an organisation the size of Walmart and bringing the lessons learnt in war back to the boardroom.
Eugene Booysen is one of a new breed of bankers, a group who realise that the industry needs to transform dramatically to remain relevant. His Damascene Conversion came after attending Singularity University in Silicon Valley: "I left SA as Eugene and returned as Newgene." As head of innovation at Barclays…
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