Proudly SA: Ensuring your value proposition is worth it
Finding a niche in your chosen sector is challenging in this fast-moving economy, and being original or distinctive is virtually impossible.
Proudly SA: Creating employment in SA through re-industrialisation
Operational investment in the country's seven SEZs is reported to be around R19 billion … writes Eustace Mashimbye.
PROUDLY SA: The meaning of heritage when buying local products
Laduma has shown that there is room for luxury, local items with a certain price tag.
OPINION: Putting more home-grown products on retailer shelves
The retail value chain is complex and extensive and represents hundreds of thousands of jobs.
OPINION:SA's furniture industry clawing its way back to its former glory
Stakeholders confront the challenges that are facing the sector to map a way forward, writes Eustace Mashimbye.
#SavingsMonth: SA entrepreneurs also struggle under debt
July is Savings Month, and much has been written on the subject of South Africans’ poor culture of putting money aside.
OPINION: Middleman is not economic empowerment
In all of our tender procurement processes we are all extremely vigilant, looking out for evidence of spurious joint ventures writes Eustace Mashimbye.
Illegal imports are damaging the South African economy
PROUDLY SA: Menace of items that have been produced overseas and brought in through the back door … writes Eustace Mashimbye.
Silly season sales should be channelled into local products
PROUDLY SA: With many online shoppers anxious about the reliability of delivery, it's the safe way to go.
PROUDLY SA: The role of unions in increasing localisation
The labour movement has a vested interest in encouraging localisation … writes Eustace Mashimbye.
PROUDLY SA: Time to wake up to the high quality of locally made goods
International brands manufacture their products here but are never questioned on price… writes Eustace Mashimbye.
Cost of merely existing a reality for many South Africans
Our new Cabinet has the unenviable task of stimulating enough growth to create jobs
OPINION: Proudly SA to play its part in war against unemployment
The Jobs Summit called for clear and measurable solutions to the crisis… writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: Let's take a leaf from Trump's book, boost manufacturing
PROUDLY SA: It's time to 'find the gap' and fill it with factories manned by a skilled SA workforce… writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: KZN initiative of excellence does our country proud
We travelled with our “cousins” Brand SA and Tourism SA to KZN, celebrating investment in our economy, heritage and tourism… writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: Pre-election spending actions of our leaders will reveal a lot
PROUDLY SA: How they use their funds will show us if they're serious about the unemployment crisis… writes Eustace Mashimbye.
Keep money circulating locally to uplift society
It is often cited that money spent in a Jewish community remains in that community for up to a month before someone breaks the chain.
OPINION: Bribery and nepotism are our big job killers
It is with a great sense of dismay that we received the latest unemployment figures last week, writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: The power of franchises in South Africa’s economy
Franchises employ some 343 000 people, of which 20 000 work for the franchisors and the balance in the individual branches writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: Choose local fashion, it’s lekker
Proudly SA hosted its third sector specific business forum of the year, putting the spotlight this time on footwear writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION:South Africa has far more talent than we really give it credit for
We South Africans have a lot to be proud of, writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: Procuring from local sources imperative
procurement is one of the fastest growing professions writes Eustace Mashimbye.
OPINION: Why is there such a spectacular failure rate in the SMME sector?
Only 37% of SMMEs survive to their fourth year writes Eustace Mashimbye.
Strong family ties helped beat scourge of unemployment
As an ordinary South African who grew up in Mamelodi, I have witnessed first-hand the scourge of unemployment writes Eustace Mashimbye.