Bravura Alumni Society June 2019 Spotlight Tim Frankish – Managing Director of SolarSaver SolarSaver is an innovative solar photovoltaic solutions company that offers its clients a unique capex-free, rent-to-own model. …
The first quarter GDP growth of 2019 for South Africa was announced earlier today, and it is once again a negative number. The numbers are showing that the South African…
In a ten-year study of US Fortune 500 companies published in 2017, it was found that firms with female CEOs or gender-diverse boards are associated with a range of stronger…
Black economic empowerment codes have not lived up to expectations of enabling genuine and sustainable transformation. And without it, South Africa is sure to struggle to achieve meaningful economic growth.…
Dr Ivor Blumenthal chats to Soria Hay on the Contemporary Business Show’s Business Brief podcast series about the benefits of the Black Industrialists programme. Soria Hay suggests that this initiative…
Bravura Alumni Society May 2019 Spotlight Alana Bond – Co-founder and Director of Simanye When interviewed by Bravura as part of our twenty year celebrations, and asked about her vision…
The B-BBEE Commission says B-BBEE transactions are lagging in the area of compliance with fronting being flagged yet again as a key problem. But broadly what is the progress in…
South Africans are waiting expectantly for a credit rating announcement from Moody’s Investor Service, the only credit rating agency yet to downgrade the country to junk status. Whether this will…
As South Africa enters its third wave of empowerment deals, the use of trusts as an ownership vehicle continues to rankle the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission. With a…
The stakes have never been higher, and despite Minister Tito Mboweni’s always-jovial presence in parliament as he tabled Budget 2019, his words prepared us for the bitter medicine that must…