State-owned companies (SOCs) are important to South Africa’s economy as critical strategicplayers in the delivery of public services such as water, energy, transportation, and infrastructure amongst others. As a result, good corporate governance practices in SOCs are vital to ensure sustainable economic growth and healthy contributions to the government fiscus, when profitable. Though boards of SOCs, including Eskom, carry responsibility...

The 8th of March was International Women’s Day. This year’s theme was “Break the Bias.” Bias is the use of irrelevant factors into decision making which can unfairly exclude someone from experiences and opportunities for which they are qualified or want, based on gender, religion, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education, and other attributes. A few years ago, our company...

In life you can choose to focus on what you don’t have that doesn’t match with what the Joneses have. Or you can be Ecstatic about what you have. I tend to relish in what I have. Leaving very little time to think about what I think I don’t have. I always say, the Universe never leaves a vacuum. Whether...

South Africans can also use the Department of Home Affairs Immigration critical skills list to gauge what skills  employers and the country requires. Link here – http://www.dha.gov.za/index.php/immigration-services/scarce-skills-work-permits For decades,  commentators, HR professionals and economists have spoken about the misalignment of skills between the skills that higher education is producing in South Africa versus what employers are requiring in the 21st...