40 years ago, Windhoek Maize Mill opened its doors, producing 16 tons each month; this marked the birth of Namib Mills. In 1982, before the country achieved independence, just over one million people faced food insecurity and there was a need for...
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SAKHIWO HEALTH SOLUTIONS: Universal Understanding Underpins Trusted SAKHIWO
“We are looking for clients – government departments – who see value in a company that creates healing spaces but also can look at alternative funding models,” says Dr Tebogo Mphake, CEO at SAKHIWO Health Solutions. The company, busy with multiple...
METSO OUTOTEC: Planet Positive Approach Accelerates Sustainable Development
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Metso Outotec - provider of technologies and services to improve customers’ energy and raw material efficiency, water resources management and safety- employs over 15,000 people in more than 50 countries and...
RHEINMETALL DENEL MUNITION: Sights Set Firmly on the Future
As an integrated technology group, Rheinmetall AG stands for a strong, internationally successful company that operates in various markets world-wide with an innovative range of products and services. Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM)’s own...
JOTUN PAINTS SA: Jotun Goes Lean in Growth Push
Protectors of property, Jotun Paints (Jotun), is one of the world’s leading coatings corporates, delivering premium quality products for decorative, marine, protective, and powder applications. With more than 10,000 employees globally, active...
HOLLARD MOZAMBIQUE: Optimistic Outlook for Healthy Hollard
Perhaps one of the most appealing and potential-packed sectors in Africa today, the health insurance market is rife with opportunity. In 2020, 70% of all premiums were paid in South Africa, leaving the balance of an almost $70 billion spread across...
STANDARD LESOTHO BANK: Customer-Centric Banking with Added Cloud Convenience
Operating since 1995, Standard Lesotho Bank (SLB) currently employs close to 1,000 members of staff and has a national footprint in all the districts of Lesotho via a network of 18 branches, as well as specialised units that house the Head Office,...
EDUPOWER SKILLS ACADEMY: EduPower Bets on BPO to Close Skills Gap
In South Africa, the official unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2022 sat at 37%. The situation was worse for women where stats suggest 47% of women are economically inactive – almost half of all women of working age in the country. For...
MARSH AFRICA: For Marsh, the Purpose Is Possibility
For over 150 years Marsh has grown by helping clients anticipate and meet the needs and challenges of changing times and technologies. In Africa, this has primarily been borne out in specialising in providing clients with the intellectual capital...
AVBOB: There for You in Your Times of Greatest Need
Established in Bloemfontein in 1918, AVBOB has spent more than a century flourishing into Africa’s largest Mutual Assurance Society, with more than 7,000 staff providing a one-stop funeral insurance and burial service. “We set out to provide our...
RAND MUTUAL ASSURANCE: A Constant Source of Warmth, Compassion and Care
“RMA is the warm African sunrise that welcomes warmth, comfort and care to the lives we touch,” sets out the non-profit, mutual assurance organisation owned by its policy holders. “As an organisation that is compassionate and caring, RMA goes the...
QUESTEK ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: Getting the Right Message to the Right People, at the Right Time
Technology touches almost every aspect of today’s world, that much goes without saying. It has changed the way we live our daily lives, the way we conduct business, and the way we communicate. Audio-visual integration (AVI) plays a major role in...
MASTERPARTS: Masterparts Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing
Traditionally the African leader of the automotive industry, South Africa now produces more than half a million automobiles of all types each year. Amid the despondency around load shedding and other weakening economic indicators, the National...
WEBUYCARS: Hitting Top Gear and Still Accelerating
South Africa’s automotive industry continues to move as a major driver of the economy – there is no swerving this indisputable fact. From manufacturing, distribution, technology, repair, after market, modification, and sales, the industry supports...
THE SBS GROUP: Quarter Century of South African Success for SBS
“When I stand in front of a SBS Tanks customer, I am able to say: ‘Everything that will go up on this site is South African by origin’,” says Delayne Gray, Group CEO at The SBS Group. Perhaps one of South Africa’s proudest advocates, Gray heads one...
MASSLIFT AFRICA: Three Decades of Strong Growth for Africa’s Forklift Specialist
For three decades, Masslift Africa has been a powerful force, underpinning the performance of client business, elevating employees, raising the communities in which it operates, and improving itself year-on-year. A company known for ultimate...
BATA SOUTH AFRICA: Strategy Step-Up Strengthens Bata Ambitions
Last year, a leading South African manufacturer, creating much-loved products for consumers around Africa, was consolidating and searching for opportunities post-pandemic. Michael Wyatt, MD at Bata South Africa – the famous maker of robust school...
HARVEY ROOFING PRODUCTS: HRP EcoTile® to Totally Disrupt Roofing Market
Exciting things are happening at the Harvey Roofing Products (HRP) plant in Gauteng. In a world-first, this expert manufacturing business has installed all-new equipment capable of producing an innovative, strong, and in-demand new product that...