Barloworld Logistics, one of southern Africa’s leading supply chain and logistics companies, today announced its acquisition of Ecosse Tankers. CEO of Barloworld Logistics Steve Ford noted that the acquisition was in line with the company’s strategy to grow its services and expand expertise in the chemical, fuels and hazardous goods sectors. The agreement… Read more...

Events that occur outside the business school impact on us at WBS, and a great deal of what happens outside our country also impacts on us. For every action on our campus, in our country and outside our borders, there is a reaction. We choose how to deal with the impact. Do we turn it into positive or a negative? That depends on us. Read more...

Some people will wonder all their lives if they have made a difference. Commander Tsietsi Mokhele will never have that problem. Nothing prepares one for the quiet intellect of the man at the helm of the South African Maritime Safety Authority. Read more...

Pockets of excellence – where to find them and how to grow them – is what Anne Pratt, director of executive search company Memela Pratt & Associates, says is her all-consuming passion. According to Pratt, it is the leaders within these rarefied pockets who are not only invaluable to her clients but they wield the power to pull South Africa out of the… Read more...

Despite a government focus on gender equality and a new national policy to boost the empowerment of women, it appears gender equality in South Africa has taken a step or two back over the past couple of years. We’ve dropped from sixth place in 2009 to 14th spot in 2011 (behind Lesotho in ninth place) in the Global Gender Gap Index, produced annually by the… Read more...

Down Main Road in Wynberg, Cape Town, among the superettes and dealerships, there’s an antique shop full of dusty clutter. Among the items for sale is a curiously shaped plastic box. Read more...

The nationalisation of mines has never spooked the South African mining industry, despite the endless headlines that have been devoted to it over the past two years. But rapidly growing resource nationalism, from stable emerging markets like Indonesia and Brazil to developed nations such as Australia and Canada, is forcing all major mining companies to… Read more...

Did you know that that the apartheid government was intending to launch a rocket into space? But facing United States opposition to missile proliferation, the military abandoned its innovative space launch programme. Before South Africa disbanded its nuclear and biological warfare facilities, it revealed SAFARI-1 in 1965, which was the first nuclear reactor… Read more...