With the pandemic and the swift life-changes that came in 2020, a new workplace culture and a different way of doing business drove innovation. Life online became more important and increasingly critical for South Africa’s resilient business...
Profiles
SA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: Positive Future Prognosis After Pandemic Turmoil
Time have never been tougher for the National Department of Health. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, and re-emergence of the economy after some of the world’s strictest lockdowns, there is a hangover, with the virus still in circulation (South...
NEW AGE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS: Where Quality is Not the Exception, it is the Rule
Founded in 2003, New Age Engineering Solutions rapidly approaches its 20th anniversary having become recognised as one of the top and most trusted structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and piping (SMEIP) construction companies in...
G4S KENYA: Technology Transition Toughens G4S Kenya
Security on the continent remains big business. Global and local companies compete for a share of a large pie, and those that can deliver enjoy considerable spoils. The largest private company in Africa is G4S, globally recognised for securing...
KAMOA COPPER: Modern Mining Exemplified in the Heart of Africa
Copper is commonly known as the king of ‘green metals’, and with the sizeable and urgent global shift towards decarbonisation, demand will most likely increase markedly in line with the transition towards clean energy and transportation...
TRI-STAR CONSTRUCTION: Sparkling Tri-Star Thrives Through Tough Term
A quarter century ago, Tri-Star was purchased by Derek Wheals and Billy McNeil. A decorating and renovations business, founded in 1979, Tri-Star underwent a period of change at the hands of the new owners. Wheals, a Quantity Surveyor, and McNeil, a...
WANAWAKE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES: Powerful Player Provides Purposeful Progress
Sean and Saretha Sandham have created a leading import and distribution business for the industrial products sector. Coming out of a challenging set of circumstances, this enterprise has boomed, seeing fantastic growth while others have scaled...
CHEMICAL PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES: Innovation and Combined Capacity Leave CPT Uniquely Positioned
Established in 2001 and now consummately staffed by 74 permanent employees, Chemical Process Technologies (CPT) is a private chemical synthesis company within the animal health industry, also supplying fine chemicals to various other industries....
BUILD IT: Quality Materials Ensure That No Place Is Like Home
Supplying quality building materials and supremely serving communities has been Build it’s purpose for more than 35 years. Born of humble beginnings, the Group has enjoyed an explosion of growth in this time to now preside over 404 stores across...
COLCOM: 80-Year-Old Colcom Looking Forward to Bright Future
Colcom has developed a strong blueprint for operating a quality-focused food production business in a challenging economic climate…
CLIMATE NEUTRAL GROUP: AgriCarbon to Grow Ambition in Genuine Climate Change Projects
There is both a problem and opportunity across the agricultural heartlands of the world, where our food is grown and our emissions can be absorbed. The problem – the soil is quickly becoming inept and unproductive, and the amount of carbon being...
NOVA PROPERTY GROUP: Developments Continue at Super Nova
At its heart, explains CEO Dominique Haese, Nova Properties is a specialist management company that itself owns a packed portfolio of residential, commercial, and mixed-use property, and fulfils a particular and specialised rental collection and...
EDUVOS: An Education to Unlock Your Future
Eduvos has a long history in South Africa as a credible private Higher Education institute in South Africa. After many years in different shapes and forms the choice to settle on today’s moniker for the institution came as the result of a change of...
PIERRE CRONJE: Masterful Crafting Behind Breathtaking Bespoke Designs
What springs to mind upon hearing the name Pierre Cronje? For most it is a blend of artisan, creative, and exclusive - an emblem of aspirational living and the type of wares to be passed along generation after generation, century after century....
THE BEEKMAN GROUP: Family Business Flies SA Flag High
THE BEEKMAN GROUP: Family Business Flies SA Flag High INDUSTRY FOCUS: HOSPITALITY Wayne Beekman, Executive Director at the Beekman Group, tells Enterprise Africa more about managing and growing a major tourism business during tough times locally...
PRETOR GROUP: Game Changing Pretor One Opens New Doors
South Africa’s Pretor Group is a leading provider of diversified property services with a reputation for delivery of the highest standards. Managing residential, commercial, and retail properties, the company has vast experience of the industry and...
EXXARO: Sustainable Impact at the Core of Its Purpose
For more than 15 years Exxaro has stood as one of South Africa's largest and foremost black-empowered and diversified mining companies, developing along the way a global asset portfolio comprising coal operations and investments in iron ore,...
SHOPRITE GROUP: A Future-Fit Force for Good
Since the opening of its first stores in 1979, Shoprite Holdings has maintained the same bold vision for the future, which has enabled it to become the dominant food retailer today in South Africa and further afield, into nine other African...