Month: February 2022
Overhead Costs – a sneaky reality
Running a business costs money. Particularly overhead costs can sneak up before you realize it is out of control. Overhead costs also have a direct influence in determining the profit of the business and can contribute to cash flow problems. By Gerty Green
T for technology – Game on
Traditional community activity meant playing with our friends in the streets till you were called by your parents. We rode our bikes everywhere without being worried about being kidnapped or robbed. Having sports tournaments in an open field for several days, each day following the action of the day before while the community came to cheer us on was common practice. Wow! Has that changed?
Telling stories of hope
I was born in KwaMashu township in Kwazulu-Natal as Mqondisi Ngubane, or “MQ.” I was named by my grandmother who envisioned me as a “Mqondisi,” an isiXhosa word meaning “director”. This turned out to be prophetic – my name heralded my future – it was as if it was known from my birth that my destiny was to become a director.
Branding the Modern World
Organisations are facing challenges in defining what their brand stands for in a world being reconfigured by powerful forces including a global pandemic and climate change. How do they do so in a way that avoids being a worn-out cliché?
I WANT TO GET MY BUSINESS GOING… WHAT’S NEXT?
There are 3 prominent reasons why SME’s in South Africa battle to keep a business going for longer than 2 years. One being the inability to secure funding. Another is cash flow management. But the one big reason why businesses battle to secure a sustainable future, is the lack of a strategic plan. By Linda Botts
From wanting to become a surgeon to being a devoted optometrist
I always wanted to become a surgeon and applied at the University of Pretoria. I truly believed that this is what I wanted to do. by Madeleine Nilson
#ImStaying – Ncumisa Mkabile
My name is Ncumisa Mkabile, I’m 27 years old female farmer from Khayelitsha in Cape Town.
MEET LEON VAN VUUREN – HOW HE GREW A R150 MILLION BUSINESS
Optique means “Optical” in French, a collective noun describing what the team at Optique do as Optometrists.
