# Standard Bank en die GIBS-akademie vir Entrepreneursontwikkeling het aansoeke vir die 2025 Youth Forward-program bekendgestel. Die inisiatief vind plaas terwyl Suid-Afrika vir Jeugmaand voorberei. Naledzani Mosomane van Standard Bank sê die program teiken 50 swart jeug-sakeondernemings en bied toerusting vir volhoubare groei. Sy het beklemtoon dat met jeugwerkloosheid van 46,1-persent, mik die program daarna […]
# Die Noorse onderneming, Scatec ASA, het as deel van Suid-Afrika se groen energie-oorgang, voorkeurbieërstatus in die land verseker vir ‘n battery-energiebergingsprojek ter waarde van twee-miljard-rand. Die hernubare energie onderneming is as voorkeurbieër vir die Haru-battery-energiebergingsprojek aangewys, onder die derde bodvenster van die Onafhanklike Kragprodusente se verkrygingsprogram. Scatec sal in die 15-jaar-ooreenkoms bergingskapasiteit aan die […]
# South Africa will host the inaugural Global SME Ministerial Meeting in July. Small Business Development minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams says the summit aims to build global partnerships supporting small business amid economic recovery and trade disruptions. Held under the theme ‘Navigating new business frontiers’, the minister says the delegated will map a global Small and […]
# Die DA in die Wes-Kaap verwelkom ‘n toename in lugpassasiers, nadat die Kaapstadse Internasionale Lughawe byna een-miljoen aankomste in April aangeteken het. Meer as 700-duisend was binnelandse reisigers, terwyl internasionale aankomste met 17-persent jaar-op-jaar tot meer as 269- duisend gestyg het. George-lughawe het ‘n styging van 25-persent in passasiersverkeer ondervind. Noko Masipa van die […]
# Die Kabinet het die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Indiensneming en die Witskrif oor die Nasionale Arbeidsmigrasiebeleid goedgekeur. Hierdie wetsontwerp bepaal kwotas vir die indiensneming van buitelandse burgers in sektore soos landbou, gasvryheid en konstruksie. Die beleid het ten doel om plaaslike toegang tot werk te bevorder en nie-amptelike indiensneming te beperk. Arbeidsagente kan waarskynlik ook strenger […]
# Statistics South Africa reports a 14.8-percent year-on-year drop in liquidations for April. Liquidations of close corporations fell by 12 cases, while company liquidations declined by seven. Stats SA’s Onica Mushwana says over the three months ending April, liquidations decreased by 6.9-percent, and a six-percent drop was recorded for the first four months of the […]
# The International Air Transport Association, IATA, has reported total global air passenger traffic grew strongly in April, in year-on-year terms. Total demand increased by eight percent, with international demand up 10.8-perccent and domestic demand rising by 3.3-percent. The region which saw the strongest growth in total passenger traffic was Africa, at 14.2-percent. It was […]
# Standard Bank and the GIBS Entrepreneurship Development Academy have launched applications for the 2025 Youth Forward Programme. The initiative comes as South Africa gears up for Youth Month. Standard Bank’s Naledzani Mosomane says the programme targets 50 black youth-owned businesses, offering tools for sustainable growth. She emphasised that with youth unemployment at 46.1-percent, the […]
# The DA in the Western Cape welcomes a surge in air passenger numbers, as Cape Town International Airport recorded nearly one-million arrivals in April. Over 700-thousand were domestic travellers, while international arrivals jumped 17-percent year-on-year to over 269-thousand. George Airport also saw a 25-percent rise in traffic. The DA’s Noko Masipa credits Wesgro’s Air […]
