This week Multichoice calling for Icasa to regulate digital media urging the organization to view the pay-TV industry as one entity despite underlying technologies ahead of Icasa public forum. Mudzithe also discusses the challenges of building a structure in a structureless market with founder and Group CEO of The Temple Management Company Nigeria.

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West Africa's Regional Stock Exchange is one of the most successful regional stock exchanges, linking eight West African countries with a stable currency and fast growth; in its current season of road shows, the exchange met with South African fund managers and market experts on March 14, 2018, at “BRVM Investment Days in Johannesburg.

SAB-Inbev gives an account of public interest commitment.

At the end of 2016, SABMiller combined its business with one of the largest beer brewers in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) and at the time made several public interest commitments (PIC), financed through an R1-billion AB InBev Investment.

The PIC was agreed on with the South African government to bring economic and broader societal benefits to the country over the next five years.

On Monday the 23rd April 2018, SAB-Inbev announced its progress to the public interest commitments (PIC) made to the South African government a year on since the agreement.

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As a global conference speaker on Change, host Michael Jackson has already spoken at nearly 3000 conferences around the world to critical acclaim.

We bring you Business leaders, gurus, icons, entrepreneurs and thought and opinion shapers.

We provide insight into what makes these people tick and uncovers ideas and thoughts that you can apply to your life and career.

A natural storyteller; Jackson engages naturally with his guests and it’s compulsive listening.

Stephen Hawking has called this century, ‘the century of complexity’. The moment mainstream culture awakens to the complex nature of reality. The realization that while the universe is comprised of some controllable and predictable elements, it’s largely uncontrollable, unpredictable and emergent.

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The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, Pretoria in conjunction with South African government agencies, is planning to convene a trade and investment workshop on 24 April 2018. 

Objectives: 

To introduce South African stakeholders to the UAE’s 2018 trade and investment strategy.

To examine current investment trends and climates in both countries.

To discuss trade and investment opportunities within various sectors. 

To identify trade and investment gaps/niches in the market.

 

Long term: 

To promote trade and investment between South Africa and the UAE.

To foster outbound trade and investment to the UAE.

To enhance existing economic relations and increase trade and investment volumes between South Africa and the UAE.

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Kanti Simmons kickstarts the show by telling us how we can get over our mess and claim victory over our challenges in our everyday life. In our top tech news segment, we talk about Satellites that track your every movement, the US wanting to regulate cryptocurrencies and how Blockchain is being used in the food stalls industry in Kenya. We end off the show with an Interview by Nation Builder Executive Director, Keri-Leigh Paschal, who unpacks her social entrepreneurship activities and the Social Innovation Challenge, which is an open-call for innovation in that space.

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Starting as a social-cultural group of 11 close family friends in 2008, YAPS has flourished into an established NPO catering to the cultural, educational and social development and strengthening of the Portuguese culture. Our roots are in Portugal but our branches stretch throughout South Africa.

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Robin Banks is one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of Mind Power and

Personal Mastery. He is a highly sought-after international speaker and has spoken to CEO

and Senior Management from global Fortune 500 companies.

He has dedicated his life to the transformation of global consciousness and his ultimate

desire is to empower people to take charge of their lives and create a brighter future for

themselves, their community, their country and the planet.

He is a prolific speaker and presenter and has an amazing ability to combine solid content

with a humorous and dynamic presentation. People from all walks of life, from shelf packers

to CEO’s, have been transformed and inspired by Robin’s presentations.

He is continually being featured on radio and television shows, in newspaper and magazine

articles, and video conferencing presentations. Robin has traveled and spoken extensively;

he has mastered the art of communication and uses his gift of understanding group

dynamics,

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Allon Raiz is regarded both locally and globally as a pioneer and maverick in the business-incubation

industry. He is the founder and CEO of Raizcorp which, according to The Economist, is the only genuine

incubator in Africa and which currently supports over 500 businesses.

Allon is the author of two best-selling entrepreneurial books – Lose the Business Plan and What to Do

When You Want to Give Up. He hosted the first national radio show on entrepreneurship in South Africa

in 2004; wrote and hosted the first South African prime-time entrepreneurship reality television show;

and created and published an ongoing entrepreneurial cartoon strip. Allon is currently hosting his sixth

season of the popular The Big Small Business Show on Business Day TV and is a regular columnist for

Entrepreneur Magazine.

Allon is a co-founder of the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation South Africa and Rural Roots and is on the

advisory and judging boards of numerous local and international NGOs and entrepreneurial a

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Africa is on the move…young people are harnessing technology,” - Barack Obama at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nairobi, Kenya 2015.

The digital economy in Africa started in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 when Mark Shuttleworth built Thawte, a leading certificate authority, and sold it to Verisign when Vodacom championed prepaid airtime. the wave then moved to Ghana in 2001, when, together with Mark Davies and others, BusyInternet was built.

Nigeria currently enjoys some of the most interesting developments in product development. According to a report by GSMA Intelligence 2017, Nigerians boast up to 86 million unique mobile subscribers, making it a technology developer's playground.

According to estimates released at the Google For Nigeria conference last week, by the year 2034 Africa is expected to have the world's largest working-age population of 1.1 billion -- yet only 3 to 4 million jobs are created annually.

African web users are already taking the first step in making mov

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Could racism in the workplace lose you more than just your job?

This Week on HR Wired, we shine the spotlight on racism/ethnic discrimination in the workplace; on our productivity segment, we examine if employees are still seen as production line machines; We look at HIV/AIDS Workplace Rules and ended off with Where you draw the line when it comes to recruitment.

Racial or ethnic discrimination in the workplace can rear its ugly head in a variety of forms, some of which can be overt or obvious. But racial discrimination can often be subtle and more difficult to detect, such as an employer's failure to hire or promote an individual on account of their race. Whichever form it takes, however, racial discrimination in the workplace is strictly prohibited by a number of federal and state laws.

One of the more difficult aspects of racial discrimination at work is that it can often take place entirely undetected. After all, unless an employer specifically admits otherwise, who can say for sur

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