South Africa’s world-famous fruit farming industry is set to hit a boom period as good weather boosts harvests, and favourable trading conditions drive demand for the country’s tasty and lovingly nurtured products. Currently, South Africa is a...
Profiles
CSIR: Changing Lives Through Leading Innovation
Established through an Act of Parliament in 1945, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) plays a key role in supporting public and private sectors through directed research, all aligned with the country’s priorities, the...
CIPC: Innovating and Improving to Support Enterprise and Growth
While they may not necessarily even be aware of it, every individual who has registered a company name in South Africa has been dealing with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) right from the inception of the nascent business....
SIBANYE-STILLWATER: Success from Sustainability at Sibanye-Stillwater
Sibanye-Stillwater is emerging from the years of pandemic and economic turmoil in solid shape following a period of strong acquisitive activity, and a focus on efficiencies. In terms of financial results, this powerhouse has delivered record...
ICE TECH: Digital Transformations Bridge Gaps Across the Continent
As quickly as the private sector has raised the bar on the customer experience, as have increased pressure and demands on the government to keep pace. As a result, digitisation of public services has become an imperative, helping governments meet...
ZUID-AFRIKAANS HOSPITAL: A Century of Quality Healthcare
While the physical appearance and facade of the hospital may have changed over its near 120-year lifetime, what Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital has never deviated from is the level of service and peerless standards that generations of families have grown...
BIDTRAVEL: SA Tourism Lives Again
By introducing legislation, restrictions, lockdowns, and controls around the movement of people, politicians took the fight to the quickly spreading Covid-19 virus in 2020. But the outcome was devastating for industries that run on people...
MOWANA PROPERTIES: Deep Roots Provide Great Growth for Mowana
In the listed property sector, and the busy property management industry in South Africa, there has been a shift in recent years as technology advances have changed expectations for clients, and transformation and revolution have created new...
SACAP: Innovative Education for a Better, Happier World
Since its establishment in 1997 in Cape Town, SACAP has enjoyed steady and consistent growth. A seminal moment in its history came with the advent of formalised bodies of recognition such as the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) which brought...
ADEGA: Seasoned Team Relaunches Adega
The years of 2020 and 2021 will forever be remembered as times of tragedy and difficulty. Covid-19 created challenges like never before. Travel, tourism, hospitality, retail – all battered by the virus itself and the subsequent restrictions....
DW FRESH PRODUCE: The Value of Produce Fresh from the Farm
The Tshwane Market and Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market is a unique commerce centre, where prices are formed and fresh produce is traded to the mutual benefit of suppliers, buyers and consumers. Produce is procured from producers country-wide,...
LETŠENG DIAMONDS: Presiding Over a Kingdom of Gems
Lesotho has enjoyed a long and prosperous relationship with diamonds since the very first discovery in 1957. A few years later came the establishment of a small, yet weighty, mining industry, which took off during the 1960s and 1970s when the...
DBSA: Igniting Sustainable Development and Transformative Change
“Our purpose,” explains the DBSA, “is to build Africa’s prosperity by driving inclusive growth and securing innovative solutions that drive socio-economic development in emerging economies in sub-Saharan Africa.” The company fulfils this ambitious...
CURO FUND SERVICES: Future-Focussed Finance Digitisation
Supported by:A proudly South African, multifaceted and fine-tuned solution provider, at its core Curo sets out to provide administration services that cover the entire lifecycle of an investment. Two overarching ideas have guided Curo in its...
UDM INTERNATIONAL: UDM Drives Culture of Success as Sales Skyrocket
“We can sell anything,” smiles Jacqui van der Riet, Managing Director of UDM International, a leading South African direct marketing business. “It’s incredible what you can sell over the telephone with the right incentive structures for your staff,...
NISSAN AFRICA: Capitalising on the ‘Last Automotive Frontier’
For most, the potential of Africa as an economic case is undoubted. 54 countries with much untapped potential, both in terms of market opportunities as well as human capital and innovation. Home to a major part of the world’s population, but...
FORD SOUTH AFRICA: Global Auto Business Eyes SA Opportunities
South Africa’s government has promised to deliver massive foreign direct investment to drive employment opportunities, commercial activity, and ultimately GDP growth in a promising economy which has waned for almost a decade. President Ramaphosa...
BROLL PROPERTY GROUP: Broll’s Strategic Shift for Core Growth and Innovation
The past five years has seen Broll – one of Africa’s leading commercial property services groups - actively seeking new opportunities, sourcing growth strategies beyond the traditional, and focusing on IT capability while it became ever closer to...