There was always an outside chance that Nonkululeko Gobodo would go for broke, scouting around for big names in ghost-writing and editing, but when it came to the crunch, she plucked up the courage and wrote the book herself. At the age of 60, Nonkululeko Gobodo, with no prior experience, decided to launch her writing…
Marriage and accounting are two very different things, but they can be related in certain ways. Marriage is a legal and social union between two people, often based on love, companionship, and mutual support. Accounting, on the other hand, is a system of recording, analysing and reporting financial transactions. Div and Jana Lamprecht show us…
Sandile Mnguni CA(SA) was born and bred on the South Coast where his family used to run community shops. This ignited an immense passion within him for numbers and in Grade 11 he decided he would become a chartered accountant. However, it was easier said than done, and due to limited finances meant attending university…
Siyamdumisa Vilakazi AGA(SA) was seconded as CFO to the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) when the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Ms Thoko Didiza, had to put in place a new team to stabilise the troubled land entity. Siyamdumisa Vilakazi dreams of a society where ethical behaviour is normalised as opposed to corruption;…
Five ways you can take your small business marketing and communications to the next level in 2023 Just like the ocean and its tides, if one gets caught in a current, one can choose to move with it or get tired fighting it and get pulled out to sea. In the same way one can…
For those South Africans wondering how they’ll afford school fees as well as a new season’s wardrobe, ‘buy now, pay later’ solutions are a true boon. One such solution, Float, is doing things a little differently. Paul Masson, the company’s back-end brains, explains how. Paul Masson is the kind of guy who puts his hand…
In 2022, business leaders faced an increasingly unpredictable environment, with evolving return-to-office policies, higher employee turnover, and burned-out employees (more than ever before, in fact). In 2023, organisations will continue to face significant challenges: a competitive talent landscape, an exhausted workforce, and pressure to control costs amid a looming economic downturn. How employers respond could…
The traditional model of the leader-hero who saves the day, knows it all and is often driven by power, fame, glory or money is no longer appropriate. People today expect a different kind of leader. While every company should formulate its own approach to leadership, here’s the philosophy deployed by a leading company as part…
There are unwritten rules about the emotions you’re expected to show at work. These implicit ’feeling rules’ are so embedded in an organisation’s social fabric that we rarely notice them. However, there are times when there’s a conflict between how you feel and the emotions you’re expected to display. So how do you decide when…
Forbes has identified ‘AI everywhere’ as a top technology trend for 2023 and beyond. As you may have witnessed in the past few months, developments by OpenAI’s ChatGPT are bringing this to reality, with generative AI set to change the way people and business do things. ‘AI everywhere’ refers to the integration of artificial intelligence…