Julian Palliam CA(SA), 2017 Top 35 finalist, worked his way rapidly through the ranks of multinational companies, fearlessly taking on various responsibilities including managing over R1-billion divisions. Post articles at Deloitte, Julian joined the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, a multinational and FTSE 100 company that was expanding into Africa. He joined as employee number 006…
After gleaning vast amounts of valuable business acumen and insight during articles at Deloitte, Mariam Tayob Cassim CA(SA), along with her husband, rather serendipitously started a sweet factory called Richester Foods. Mariam has played a core role in growing the company from its novel beginnings to exponential success. Today the business boasts 600 employees and…
This year, SAICA’s Thuthuka programme celebrates its 20th year of changing lives and transforming the profession. Throughout the year, we’ll be celebrating some of the numerous milestones this programme has achieved. Milestone 1: SAICA membership demographics have changed significantly In 1980, there were only 8 African and coloured CAs(SA) in South Africa. Today, there are…
Collaborative partnerships between the private, public and development sector has the potential to create great impact and momentum to effect change in our country. One such example is a recent project that saw four companies get together to support 30 SMMEs on their development journey towards growth in the chemical industry. Intertek, a leading Total…
What are South African professionals’ views on career strategies and retraining in today’s job market? Traditionally, following a career path meant starting at the bottom and slowly working your way to the top. There was nothing unusual about working in the same sector, and often at the same company, for the whole of your professional…
The introduction by SAICA of an outcome-based approach underpinning continuing professional development (CPD) may have come at a time where their member body requires it most – but do we realise why this is so? Saying that South African accountants are staring down challenging times could be easily construed as facing the proverbial ‘few bumps…
What are South African professionals’ views on career strategies and retraining in today’s job market? Traditionally, following a career path meant starting at the bottom and slowly working your way to the top. There was nothing unusual about working in the same sector, and often at the same company, for the whole of your professional…
A crypto expert at Mazars in South Africa explains what local regulations could look like and what crypto exchanges will need to do to survive these. Towards the end of last year the news broke that Binance, the world’s largest international cryptocurrency exchange by volume, had withdrawn their application for a licence to operate a…
Volume 1 of the second part of the Zondo Commission report, which deals with Transnet, graphically shows how important it is for a CEO who has the right qualities to be appointed − and, consequently, earns the board’s respect. In terms of governance best practice, CEO appointments should be the prerogative of the board. Appointing…
South Africa is currently under severe financial constraints, with a contracting economy that cannot sustain current employment levels. Consequently the potential is there for a further credit-rating downgrade by the rating agencies and increased borrowing costs. Corruption is one of the contributing factors to these potentially disastrous challenge. The public sector is a significant part…