These eight incredible women have found their truest purpose in life and are turning their dreams into reality. They are boldly taking ground and while they about it, they have not forgotten to pull others up along with them, particularly women. Read more
Solving a real-world problem can be the best start for a business. Abed Tau has a passion for education inherited from his father, but he’s also driven by a nose for business. At just 30, he is a director of Thamani Consulting and co-founder of tech start-ups Tuta-me and Silicon Maboneng. The challenging state of…
He’s an Iron Man athlete; she has purple hair and tattoos. At first glance, they appear to be the archetypal odd couple. But what Gary and Naomi Swartz share is a passion for accounting – that’s what brought them together when they first met in 1997, when they were both doing their articles at Deloitte.…
Words Monique Verduyn – Photos André van der Merwe Ambitious young graduates often have target lists of companies they’d like to work for and almost all of them have lists of companies they would never work for, no matter what. Four years ago, one of the organisations to steer clear of was the National Youth…
Cyberattacks like WannaCry, the ransomware worm that spread rapidly across a number of computer networks, has put serious cybercrime on the radar of South African companies. It’s an ever-evolving, exciting, in-demand field that has attracted CA(SA) Jordaan Burger. He offers some insights into this intriguing world Every year brings new IT security breaches, but 2017…
Nick Wilkinson’s career reads like a ‘how to make it big in Africa’ story. The multi-award-winning olive oil maker first spent 20 years working for international corporate agricultural businesses, turning near bankrupt agribusinesses into profitable operations. In one venture he created opportunities for 150 000 small-scale cotton farmers in Zambia, supporting 1,5 million livelihoods. This…