Mental Fitness Tips

The South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) has partnered with the University of the Westren Cape to lauch a Post-Graduate qualification in Public Sector Financial Management.

This is certain to attract interest from many prospective students and those already in the public service.

Prof. Rashied Smalls of SAIPA takes time out to explain what this course entails and what is the reason behind it.

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SAIPA is extending their net wider and going to Universities to engage with accounting students as to what being a Proffesional Accountant (SA) is and the academic path to follow. Zobuzwe Ngbese shares greater insight on this.

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The timber business is one that is mainly overlooked yet so critical to the African continent. CEO of Nkuni Holdings, speaks to us about the industry as well as his company.

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The Global Entrepreneurship Conference gathers together thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers & startup champs from more than 170 countries to identify new ways to help founders start and scale new ventures. We speak to Nyeleti Shirilele about this conference and what it presents to Africa.

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Managament Consulting is a space that Mudzunga Mashamba find a home in when she moved from corporate employment to entrepreneurship. She incorporated The Productivity and Performance Group (TPPG), a company focused on getting companies to thrive and become efficient, effective, sustainable and ultimately be profitable. Find out her story.

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6 days into the tax year 2017/18 in South Africa.

There are critical amendments and introductions of taxes that you need to know of.

- What incentives are there?

- Where can you save?

In our SAIPA (South Africa Institute of Professional Accountants) feature, we catch up again with Ettiene Retief as promised to help us understand this.

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Profit is always the objective, but tonight we take a different turn on things and look at corporate/business social responsibility as well as foundations doing their bit to give back to the community.

First up we speak to Nonkululeko Xulu, founder of X-Foundation. Their purpose is to give underprivileged children a brighter future through education. Join us to find out HOW she manages to do this.

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what3words gives every place in the world an easy-to-share, easy-to-find address, thanks to an algorithm and a global grid of 3mx3m squares where each square is identified by a fixed and unique 3 word address. The what3words API is being integrated into businesses, apps & services across the world. It works across all platforms and devices, in multiple languages, offline and with voice recognition.

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The State Of Nation Address at the opening of the South African Parliament left the local and international community shocked, ashamed and to a degree appalled at what happened.

The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) had members of various media houses present and the occurences before, during and post the SONA was an experience unpleasant to the journalists, particularly the "securitisation" of Parliament.

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There are alot of new proposed taxes and certain changes predicted.

Among them is Carbon Tax which was postponed in January 2017 from being levied, but it's going to be a reality.

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