SPECIAL FEATURE: TRANSFORMATION

Transformation: accelerating the vision forward The Top 10 challenges to B-BBEE Boost your B-BBEE score TRANSFORMATION ACCELERATING THE VISION FORWARD While an unacceptably high number of South Africans are still not participating in the economy, there is another issue at hand ‒ women are just not managing to break through the glass ceiling and simply…

ANALYSIS: RAISING THE STAKES…

Directors and managers may now be held criminally liable and be jailed for cartel conduct, although criminal liability provisions do not apply to cartel conduct engaged in before 1 May 2016. By Gomolemo Kekesi and Elisha Bhugwandeen Until 30 April 2016, the penalty for cartel conduct was an administrative fine imposed on firms.1 But as…

ANALYSIS: AUDITOR CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS

The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) envisage that the disclosure of audit tenure will lead to greater transparency regarding the number of years of the association between audit firms and audit clients, thus strengthening auditor independence in South Africa. By Franeli Bredell Audit regulators globally aim to protect the interests of investors and other…

LEAD: Top 35-under-35: MEET THE FINALISTS

Charl de Villiers Johnathan Dillon Alta-Mari Grebe Carlo Botha George Diab Huzaifah Elias Chantelle Loots Tumi Hlongwane Waseem-Ahmed Carrim Johan Ferreira Raymond Ledwaba Faraimose (Mose) Kutadzaushe Louw Barnardt Siyanda Gule Graeme Marais Greg Magid Liaan Kretzchmar CHARL DE VILLIERS, 31 CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, STELLAR CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED Ideally, Charl de Villiers would have wanted to…

VIEWPOINT: STAFF DISCOUNTS

I have a couple of friends who work in the retail industry and the one ‘perk’ that comes with that is the very generous staff discounts. So much so, that it seems to succeed in convincing such employees that it would never make sense to leave the employment of said retailer. From the company’s perspective,…

VIEWPOINT: MAKING A POWERFUL POINT

Your brain makes decisions either by taking its time or through mental shortcuts based on past experience. As a speaker, if you present too much information, your audience will take longer to make a decision. Most speakers make the mistake of overwhelming their audience by using complicated PowerPoint slides. DESIGNING IMPACTFUL POWERPOINT SLIDES Choose simple…

COVER STORY: FEMININE ARTISTIC FLAIR

Refilwe Matenche Aamena Lambat Sebenzile Mathebula Denise Maré Uvitha Pather In a recent IBM global survey of more than 1 500 CEOs from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide, creativity was selected as the most crucial factor for future success. Crazily enough, it ranked above hard work, discipline, integrity, or vision. Yes, creativity. This fact…