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It is often said that the elderly and those with impaired immune systems are most at risk due to Covid-19, but small businesses are just as vulnerable... read
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KAYLA SHADIACK
As a consequence of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, there are a number of labour law considerations that South African businesses will have to consider...read
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ISSUED BY EDGE GROWTH
To help you respond at speed to the coronavirus and its effects, we've developed a Covid-19 Survival Toolkit for the small business and entrepreneur...read
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JEAN EWANG
In the wake of the announcement of the national shutdown, the Minister of Employment and Labour has announced the introduction of measures in response to coronavirus (Covid-19) and its impact on UIF contributors... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Godfrey Sono and Sibusiso Vilakazi successfully launched mo-Wash, mobile hand washing units into the market. This stand-alone, fully automatic portable unit requires no plumbing or drainage, providing a cost-effective hygiene solution... Read
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Business Plans
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World Backup Day and serves as a reminder to all businesses and individuals to make sure that all important files and documents are backed-up... Read
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Community
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For many businesses in South Africa, the coronavirus poses a massive threat. Remote and mobile working isn't particularly common... Read
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Working from home has become a necessity to help flatten the curve... Read
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Funding
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GRAEME PALMER
Tax is an important factor when a business decides whether to use debt or equity financing... Read
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While President Cyril Ramaphosa spent the weekend working to shore up the country's already wobbly economy in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, South Africa's major banks have pledged their support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and other clients... Read
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HR
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YOLANDI ESTERHUIZEN
With South African businesses facing an unprecedented crisis, many are worried about whether they will be able to afford to pay their employees... Read
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Marketing & Media
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ISSUED BY EATBIGFISH
Naked is a new generation of car and home insurance that challenges the fundamental model and accepted convention in short-term insurance that expounds 'company profit is dependent on claims'... Read
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Partnerships
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Collaboration and ecosystems are reshaping business relationships for long-term success and sustainability... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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ASHRAF HENDRICKS
Many traders have no savings and without any income they don't know how they will make it through the next 21 days... Read
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As failing South African parastatals continue to put huge pressure on the economy and negative international sentiment makes corporate investors nervous... Read
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SMEs are the perfect victims for cybercrime. Focused on getting their businesses off the ground, they are oblivious of the vast amounts of data they're accumulating... Read
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Social Entrepreneurship
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Food sector innovators are called upon to co-create sustainable solutions to help South Africans become more food secure in the context of the Covid-19 crisis... Read
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DR VICTOR OLADOKUN
Africa urgently needs a globally coordinated ubuntu plan in response to Covid-19, a fiscal stimulus that recognises our shared and connected humanity... Read
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The African Development Bank's new $3bn Fight Covid-19 Social Bond is the largest dollar-denominated social bond ever launched in international capital markets to date... Read
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Equatorial Guinea is waiving oil & gas services fees in the wake of the oil price drop caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Oil prices currently remain at around $20 a barrel, their lowest level since 1991... Read
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Nielsen has found that global consumers are adapting their purchase behaviour to cope with the rapidly evolving situation we find ourselves in during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read
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DR ANDREW GOLDING
While anticipated, South Africa's downgrade to junk status by Moody's rating agency will be a further blow to the already weakened economy... Read
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ESHMAEL MPABANGA
Could this be the moment when traditional business takes action and combats the current Covid-19 crisis by revising current or dusting off archived business cases? Read
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MAMPHELA RAMPHELE AND GEORGE LINDEQUE
The crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic offers our country an opportunity to recapture the spirit of ubuntu demonstrated by empathy, responsibility and solidarity... Read
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The Covid-19 lockdown will have an impact on the nation's pockets, but consumers shouldn't bank on payment holidays from their financial institutions... Read
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With South Africa headed into a 21-day lockdown this week, combatting the threat of the Covid-19, has been made a key national priority. Never before in our democracy have we seen a national lockdown taking place, but the gravity of the current situation absolutely demands it... Read
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CHANELL KEMP
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a nationwide lockdown in response to the rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in the country.... Read
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