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.
The philosophy of virtue edited manna
Thato Kelefetswe, is a 14 year old grade 9 student from Hartbeespoort who’s biggest aspiration in life is to stay virtuous. He shares his philosophy. By Thato Kelefetswe
The Boy Who Lives to Tell a Story
Here is Dante’s story. At his birth on December 10, 2014, Dante was diagnosed with a rare heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). This a rare heart condition is caused by a combination of four heart defects and causes oxygen-poor blood to flow out of his heart and into the rest of his body.
Future Authors – Penelope Kwenda
Black Maleficent I mean, I’m not lazy. I don’t care for needless things. I don’t
Education for HOA Directors and Staff
In my previous articles, I wrote about that the Roles and Players in an Estates’ Homeowners Association. In this article I would like to share my thoughts and suggestions on education for Directors and Staff in an Estates’ Homeowners Association. By Johan Kruger
In Your Face – Marketing
We have, since the pandemic started, become recluse. Withdrawn from the world outside of your own Bio-bubble. Minimum contact with others has been hard on our personal lives and this made me think of the effects our exclusion, from business life, has had on our working relationships. By Theunis Botha