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Business Unity South Africa chief executive Cas Coovadia

Business lobby: Chief executives extend helping hand to SA – not the ANC

During a media briefing, business leaders said their work with government could deliver the growth needed to arrest the economic crisis

The PwC report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was analysed. (Oupa Nkosi)

In South Africa, only 5% of chief executives are women

Only 5% of chief executives are women and the gender pay gap is most pronounced in the top JSE-listed companies, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on…

‘Temporary suffering’: Bernard Mostert has cofounded a new footwear company but is determined to have his day in court to try to obtain Steinhoff’s liquidation. (Chris Leggatt)

Tekkie Town’s Steinhoff fight: ‘We will get our business back’

Bernard Mostert on the ordeal of losing a business he helped build and the fight to get it back

The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File

Covid-19 a ‘catalyst for closing the pay gap’

Executive directors earn 66 times the national minimum wage and are overwhelmingly white, a report by assurance, advisory and tax services company PwC has found

One of the unintended consequences of the Bill will be the dominance of foreign content in our schools. Our children will be forced to learn content produced in other countries that they cannot relate to. (Graphic: Johnn McCann/M&G)

​The Copyright Amendment Bill is a recipe for recolonising education

One of the unintended consequences of the Bill will be the dominance of foreign content in our schools, as it will disincentivise local creatives

Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste. (David Harrison/M&G)

Pay back the money: Markus Jooste, Steinhoff edition

The former Steinhoff chief executive could be ordered to pay back R870-million to the global general household retailer

Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste. (David Harrison/M&G)

Fictitious and irregular deals key to Steinhoff heist

The summary of a PwC report sketches an outline of the conspiracy at the heart of efforts to inflate the retail group’s profits and assets

Former Sars commissioner Tom Moyane. (David Harrison/M&G)

Gordhan lays out state’s case against suspended SARS boss

Tom Moyane was suspended from the tax agency on March 19 this year

The conversation on white monopoly capital is being extended to include corruption

Collars and ties mask the real white monopoly capitalism

Only mass civil action will hound this rogues’ gallery of corporate crooks out of town

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Fat-cat bosses need to slim down

Tougher reporting requirements could cut disparities between top execs and employees

“I have my days where I just rock a skirt or dress to school

More flawed Metrobus tenders found

PwC shows that Metrobus doe not value the government’s strategic objectives.

The Wolfgat — whose six mostly female staff have no formal training — opened just two years ago in a 130-year-old cottage and cave on the beach at Paternoster. (Image via Facebook)
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Mixed reactions to 2015 budget

While some such as the RAF and Tisa have welcomed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s new budget plans, others are not so happy.

PwC announces conditional merger with consultancy group

PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced that it has signed a conditional merger with corporate consultancy group Booz & Co.

Hunt still on for audit firm director’s killers

Police say the motive for yesterday’s shooting which killed Lawrence Moepi, a forensic services director at an auditing firm, is still unknown.

Amcu had called the protected strike after the company on  handed 3 300 employees dismissal notices. (Reuters)

Mining firms braced for leaner future

Although South African mines are holding their own globally, they face unique cost challenges.

Global greenhouse-gas emissions should have their numbers dwindle if we remain faithful to emerging technologies. Photo: Supplied

Emissions set to exceed tipping point

The global aim is to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which are largely the result of burning fossil fuels.

Huge prospects

Huge prospects, much protest

The jury is still out on mining shale gas: will the economic benefits outweigh the environmental concerns?

PwC warns of end to paper and ink publications

PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday cautioned publishers and retailers to act quickly to secure positions in the ebook and e-reader market.

Study finds family ties helped weather the recession

Three-quarters of South Africa’s family-owned businesses believe family ties helped them through the recession, according to a PwC survey released.

Vietnam silences dissenting activists

Nguyen Ngoc Quang recalls the moment he fell foul of the darker side of Vietnam’s much-lauded economic miracle.