Universities target procurement savings
Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rands through PURCO SA Online, their new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (PURCO SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded...Is Africa the emerging market of the decade?
While markets like India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and Russia have failed to deliver as emerging markets; Africa is seemingly more buoyant in relative comparison. Forbes, in its report on Africa’s Emerging Market Boom, says that Africa is currently home to five of...Trends driving African business strategy
Only a few years ago, Africa was viewed as the potential pitfall for investors; today it is dubbed as “the fastest growing continent”. What has brought about this change and what have businesses done differently to act as the catalyst for this rapid...New trading statement from Telkom
Telkom SA has issued a trading statement informing shareholders that earnings per share will be higher than last year. On 18 March, the company issued a trading statement advising shareholders that results to be reported on for the year ended 31 March 2014 would be at...