Category: Business

Comair on Friday passed another significant waypoint en route to returning to the skies when the vast majority of creditors and shareholders voted to adopt the business rescue plan. In terms of the business rescue plan the preferred investment consortium, comprising a number of former Comair board members and executives, will invest fresh equity of R500 million in return […]

Contracts are a part of everyday life, but it is often only when something goes wrong that many people read them for the first time. By then it is too late to do anything but pay up or accept the penalty clauses that are part of ‘the small print’, and walk away knowing that you […]

As Daniel Kahneman observed in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, there are two principal modes of human thinking. In a crisis, like our current one, our instinct is to think fast, simplify and leap to conclusions. But when we do this, we tend to rush and by rushing we risk neglecting the all-important slow thinking, reflecting and anticipating. […]

Business plan training is now available online for South African entrepreneurs, following the launch of the exciting startup business planning tool Hola Business earlier this month. Hola Business aims to simplify and streamline the process of getting a new business off the ground, helping entrepreneurs save both time and money in the early cycles of […]

GoDaddy, the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, has released the GoDaddy Global Entrepreneurship Survey which looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s smallest businesses. The research shows the pandemic has severely affected small enterprises, with 75 percent reporting a fall in revenues. Yet, the findings also reveal a resolve among those entrepreneurs to not […]

The 8th Angel Fair Africa would feature an all female investors and entrepreneurs panel; thus building on our 2016 all female investors panel. The investors pane, consisting of Hannah Subayi, Partner of Dazzle Angels, Evelyne Dioh, CEO of WIC Capital, Lelemba Phiri, Partner of Enygma Ventures and Maya Famodu, CEO of Ingressive Capital, will be […]

Mauritius has created a range of incentives that will effectively make it cheaper and easier than ever for investors and expatriates to live and work in the country, including reduced minimum investment limits and extending residency permits from three to 10 years. The changes, announced in the Mauritian national budget on 4 June 2020, have […]

The sustained reduction of interest rates and relaxation of lockdown levels is providing a significant boost to the recovery of average income and cash flow among salaried middle-class consumers who hold full-time or formal employment. This is according to FNB insights based on the income trends among its Retail and Private Banking customers who earn […]

Long before the turmoil of Covid-19, South Africans were already facing tough financial struggles as a country. With the added pressure of lower incomes because of salary cuts – or no income at all in some cases – it has become an even bigger challenge to make sure our money stretches to the next payday. […]

Over the last couple of months, the topic of investing offshore has created quite a buzz. We have been faced with the question of whether or not investors should be “cashing in” their savings and investing everything offshore countless times. Although times are tough and confidence is low in South Africa, investors must remember to […]