Month: August 2022

Do business the legal way

In order to do business, the legal way, you need to be a registered business and be tax compliant firstly, but you also need to comply with the labour laws of the country. Depending on the type of industry you trade in, there might also be laws governing the in- and out- flow of goods or services, and how you deal with payments. By Linda Botts

Unprecedented: Coffee in a the time of Covid

It has been a scary and unprecedented time in the coffee industry. Communities around the world have been in lockdown to halt the Covid-19 pandemic through the past two years. Never before had the human consciousness been so collectively concentrated on a single force and experienced such disruptions to our everyday lives.
By Iain Evans, Publisher of Coffee magazine and Hostex Ambassador

The good, the bad and the ugly of Women’s Day

This day is a positive tribute to gender equality and women’s rights. 9 August 1956 marks the day that about 20,000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest legislation that gave the government control over the movement of black women in urban areas by amalgamating the hated Pass Laws into one Act which would extend its power to include the restriction of the movement of black women in designated white areas.