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Bertina Engelbrecht grew up on the Cape Flats, trained as an attorney, and became CEO of a Top 40 JSE-listed company via human resources (HR). Not the obvious route and not one she designed. She joined Clicks in 2006 as HR director, spent 16 years understanding every nerve ending in…

This Sunday, the UNREAD team wraps up the news week with a smorgasbord of municipal service delivery stories, from the financially beleaguered city of Johannesburg to the mountain heaps of rubbish in Emfuleni Local Municipality in the Vaal. Plus, four past and present Ekurhuleni city officials appear in a Germiston…

This week, Bruce chats with Ricky Ruthenberg, CEO of Bootlegger Coffee Company, about building one of South Africa’s most recognisable coffee chains from a single Sea Point store in 2013 to 116 locations today – with 15 to 20 more planned before year’s end. Ruthenberg unpacks the two-model strategy, the…

In South Africa, more than 70% of children in Grades 1 to 3 cannot read at grade level in their home language*. By Grade 4, just over 80% cannot read for meaning**. In Episode 18 of The Odds in Our Favour, Erica Wicomb from the Instructional Leadership Institute shares how strengthening…

Coming up in your midweek edition of News24’s video bulletin Unread, Treasury has pulled the money plug on numerous problematic municipalities this July; traffic demerits are about to become a reality, so we explain the new AARTO traffic fine system as it’s phased in. Plus seven other stories you may’ve…