The Professional Provident Society (PPS) has warned that government needs to do more to improve the standard of education in South Africa and better prepare students for university and entering the workforce.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some financial services companies in Johannesburg are offering stronger salaries, and throwing in sweeteners to entice skilled workers back to the city, and offset the semigration trend in South Africa in recent years.
South Africa has stood out on the inflation front over the last year, and alongside China, Indonesia and Vietnam, it is one of only a few countries where inflation is in line with the official target, says Carmen Nel, economist…
Neal Froneman, the chief executive officer of mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater, has defended his R300 million remuneration saying that shareholders approved the package, and that the process was transparent.
Bullying is a word synonymous with the type of conduct expected in school playgrounds. It is not a word that is usually associated with the workplace, notes Sibusiso Dube, Partner at Bowmans South Africa.
South Africa’s economic activity slowed down in April 2022, but it is still showing growth, according to the insights from the latest monthly data in the BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI).
Thousands of retirees will find lower-than-expected pensions in their bank accounts at the end of this month owing to higher tax deductions. Thousands more already had this experience at the end of last month.
Inflation is being experienced all around the world as prices of food, fuel, electricity, and many other items that make up our routine shopping are going up fast.
The tax residence status of a natural person with a mobile lifestyle recently formed the subject matter of a tax court dispute in the United Kingdom (UK), writes Doelie Lessing, tax director at Werksmans Attorneys.
"You can go to Switzerland where everything works but there are no opportunities. In South Africa, nothing works but there are plenty of opportunities," says Capitec chief executive Gerrie Fourie.
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