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On 05 October 2023, the Rhodes Business School hosted its 9th Annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Trust Lecture in the Eden Grove Lecture Theatre to explore values-based leadership and its impact on sustainable business practices in our complex, ever-evolving world.

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Plans are underway for the brand-new Postgraduate Diploma in Advancement and Resource Mobilisation to be offered next year by the Rhodes Business School.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 alumna and former Student Recruitment Officer, Tulisa Mondliwa, has received government recognition and a boost for her Afrikare beauty product business. The Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR) recently held awards for top-performing women farmers in the Sarah Baartman district.

The Rhodes Business School recently held a graduation ceremony for its Manager’s Development Programme (MDP) and Supervisors’ Development Programmes (SDP). The two programmes were launched in 2021 to improve leadership skills for managers and supervisors within Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 commerce alumna Taryn Woodbridge has recently been appointed the first-ever woman Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director: Finance and Controlling of Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA).

On Tuesday, 04 October, the Rhodes Business School (RBS) held its 8th Annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development Trust (ATMDT) Lecture on Values-Based Leadership. The School hosted the CEO of Business Leadership South Africa, Ms Busisiwe Mavuso as guest lecturer.

Last week, Rhodes Business School (RBS) has launched the Entrepreneurial and Technological Empowerment Programme (ETEP).

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Rhodes Business School has launched two programmes for Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 staff members to better prepare and develop them in supervision and management roles.

The Rhodes Business School will add a beneficial module to its full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Management (PGDip EM) programme next year to better equip entrepreneurs with technology skills for successful business projects.

The Rhodes Business School hosted its 7th Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Trust annual lecture on values-based leadership on Monday, 04 October 2021.

Let’s stop the grand talk about Industry 4.0, and start doing, otherwise we will condemn ourselves to being an importer of technology, a taker, not a maker.

Rhodes Business School Senior Lecturer, Professor Tshidi Mohapeloa has been unanimously elected by all 26 universities as the Deputy Chairperson of the national Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Communities of Practice (CoP) for Entrepreneurship Learning and Teaching.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School held its 6th annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Annual Lecture this week and due to COVID-19 protocols, this prestigious event was held virtually. Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr Mcebisi Jonas, was the guest speaker.

The problem with being a small business school in a corner of SA often painted as dysfunctional is that you have to make an “extraordinary” case to persuade companies you can provide them with top-class executive education, says Owen Skae. The flip side of the coin is that once you’ve proved you can, they are “incredibly loyal”.

Four Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 students have qualified for the regional round of the second annual Enterprise Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Intervarsity Competition and will be pitching their business ideas to judges next week, on 18 July 2020.

While the year 2020 has seemingly hit a standstill due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is not all going downhill for former Rhodes Business School and Port Elizabeth illusionist Brendon Peel, who has been nominated for the African Business Excellence Awards by the international MEA Markets business magazine.

The New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) is Department of Higher Education’s national initiative forming part of the Staffing South Africa 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Framework.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Vice-Chancellor, Dr Sizwe Mabizela officially welcomed almost 100 first year local (Makhanda) students as part of the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s ongoing initiative to create access for local communities into the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 yesterday.

Working with the recently released 2013 SARS tax statistics is a pleasure. They give true meaning to transparency in the budgetary process.

MY dad served 34 years at the Johannesburg branch of the reformatory school for boys in Tokai.

THERE is a new tax package on the way for special economic zones to replace the old industrial

Speculation over the surprises in store for taxpayers in the national budget speech, (27 February) is already starting. Some say this is an election year and not much will happen.

FEBRUARY 5, 2014: IT’S not just environmentalists that have elevated sustainability to the top of the agenda, but business and recently business studies in higher education, which has woven the topic through its high-level post-graduate courses to ensure that commerce is cognisant of a ‘triple context’.

THE platinum strike is in its fifth month. We learned last week that it has already caused a 0.6% annualised contraction of SA’s gross domestic product

Most financial planning campaigns are directed at the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation (born between 1945 and 1963) and Generation X (born between 1964 and 1980).

THE run-up to this year’s Fifa World Cup in Brazil was marred by widespread popular protests. Underlying these demonstrations are numerous social

THE five-month platinum strike is thankfully at an end. Producers and workers must now focus on recovering as best they can.

Martin Luther King Junior eloquently adapted the story in the context of America sleeping through the rise of the black consciousness movement.

The decision by the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee to increase interest rates by just 0.25%, rather than the 0.5% increments it has used in the past

There is not much fun to be had when attending farmers’ days anymore. For years these functions used to be all about the droughts, floods or pests, lousy market prices and increasing fuel prices. We could generally drink out a solution.

It is now five years since the depths of the global credit crunch. The rot may have been checked but world prosperity seems to still be a long way off.

THE recent decision by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to grant Eskom an additional tariff hike next year to compensate

Some years ago I received a Mandela gold coin as a long-service award.

TWO years after the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School and Standard Bank partnered to offer a programme to address business analyst skill shortages in South Africa, 400 have graduated.

The Eastern Cape pays less than 8% of South Africa’s personal tax.

THE president of the Chamber of Mines describes South Africa as "the world’s best mining address".

For the past two years even the National Budget Speech has been chased out of the media spotlight by Oscar Pistorius.

My favorite book ever, even beyond JD Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye’, is Apsley Cherie-Garrard’s ‘the worst journey in the world.

Wednesday 24 September is Heritage Day. It is a pity that our country, so rich in heritage, seems to have reduced this important day to a bring-and-braai pissup.

Matthew Lester has a light pen. And a way of teaching us about his speciality – tax – by working lessons through seemingly unrelated stories.

“Cry havoc – and let loose the Dogs of War.” Frederick Forsyth didn’t pen the line.

It is not difficult to come to the conclusion that we are steeped in a deep heritage of assassinating each other WEDNESDAY, September 24, was Heritage Day.

Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

There are many disturbing images of our beautiful country.

Some say the news event of October will again be Oscar Pistorius.

This year’s Mini Budget, to be presented to Parliament tomorrow.

New Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene this afternoon delivered his first major speech to Parliament in his new role.

A RECENT World Bank Report highlights the effectiveness of SA’s fiscal policies in reducing inequality and poverty.

Much needed and critical skills in South Africa are being addressed through Rhodes Business School’s Certificate in Sustainable Business Analysis.

A director of a listed company, exhausted by multiple SARS audits, recently complained to me that big companies are overly targeted by SARS. So here is an explanation.

It must be damn tough to be South Africa’s minister of finance. Personally I would rather gut fish.

Sorry to ABIL’s ex director Tami Sokutu, I just cannot leave this theme alone.

Rhodes Business School is proud to announce the accreditation of its MBA provision

RHODES Business School has become the sixth South African school to have its Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree

TWENTY years ago, it was unthinkable that SA could manage without efficient service from the post office, Telkom and Eskom.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 staff member in the Economics department, Professor Gavin Keeton, discusses how South Africa needs to expand its job market to account for the number of unskilled workers in the country.

THE government is committed to building 9.6 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power plants, but no one has any real idea how much this will cost

WHICHEVER way it voted on Sunday, Greece will still be faced with economic pain as the financially embattled country tries to adjust its domestic spending in line with what it can afford.

This is Matthew Lester at his best, he’s questioning the R10 a day he pays to be a Chartered Accountant.

THIS is a real-life business dilemma faced by the CEO of a brick factory in the Eastern Cape.

I wonder what Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe thinks about late at night.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School student, Cuma Dube, has been awarded the Young Professional’s Award by Black Management Forum (BMF).

The Rhodes Business School hosted its 5th Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development Trust annual lecture on Values Based Leadership on 3 October 2019, with Gift of the Givers Foundation’s Dr Imtiaz Sooliman as guest speaker.

Young minds converged at the Southern Sun Hotel, OR Tambo International Airport, last week (18th-19th Sept) to compete in the 1st National Intervarsity Studentpreurship Challenge.

Rhodes Business School student, Ludwe Gcingca, uses old tyres to create jobs and fight against climate change.

As is the tradition, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 presented the inaugural lecture of Professor Noel Pearse titled, The Scholarship of Leadership: An illustration of the Integration of Research, Teaching & Learning and Community Engagement.

Entrepreneur, global motivational speaker, philanthropist and travel guru, Ms Johanna Mukoki recently inspired budding entrepreneurs to be agents of change when achieving their goals, as part of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网’s Student Entrepreneurship Week.

A pattern of moral disengagement and displacement of responsibility paves the way for the horsemen of corporate collapse: unethical decisions, no accountability, recklessness, hubris and greed.

South Africa recently hosted a Jobs Summit that brought key stakeholders –government, business and labour – under one roof to find better ways of tackling the country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate.

First woman president of Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), Zingiswa Losi, recently joined her colleagues in a Rhodes Business School short course on project management.

Alec Mullins Sports Hall was ablaze in a flurry of activity on the evening of 21 September for Purple Glove Promotions Fight Night.

The Rhodes Business School is now offering a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analysis to help solve critical skills deficits in business.

The Rhodes Business School MBA programme has been given the thumbs up for another three years by the Association of MBA (AMBA), an accreditation service which currently accredits programmes from the top 2% of business schools in over 70 countries.

South African universities and non-profit organisations (NPOs) are under pressure to manage their fundraising opportunities and processes optimally.

This year will be the first year that the Alpha Project Bursary, started by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Postgraduate Diploma in Enterprise Management (PDEM) students, will be offered to Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School students.

Matthew Lester passed away, after a short illness, on the 12th March 2018 at the age of 56. Educated at St Johns, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 and Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, he was one of South Africa’s foremost tax experts.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 has learned with deep shock and sadness about the passing on today of Professor Matthew Lester after a short illness.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School MBA student, Godfrey Nyamande, has been awarded the Association of MBAs 50th anniversary scholarship, the only award of its kind for the whole of the African continent.

Humanitarian and activist Graça Machel lashed out at the lack of collective outrage by South Africans about the rapidly escalating brutalisation of women and children by men.

For a city that is home to a respected university and some of SA’s leading private schools, Grahamstown’s educational challenges are conspicuous.

Could free lectures on their phones inspire young people to start businesses, grow the economy and employ more people?

In a ground breaking move, the Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School this month launched a television channel, which offers lectures in Economics I, Commercial Law, Entrepreneurship and financial planning.

Spar Group and the Dutch government are building three fresh-produce points in rural areas

Sexual violence is a scourge in our society. Our 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 should and will be leading the discussion on how this scourge can be eliminated. We are grateful to students who have highlighted the issue. However, any discussion regarding rape and rape culture must take place in light of the rights and values enshrined in our Constitution, and with due respect for the rule of law which includes the principles of natural justice.

Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba is repeating the threadbare mantra of creating more jobs, boosting entrepreneurship and growing SA’s economy, which has grown just 1% a year in real per-capita terms over the past 25 years.

Democracy in an era of global connectivity needs to include the associated innovations, such as ‘democracy software’ developed to include more people in decision-making, whether in politics, organisations, businesses or the corporate environment.

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa is going through serious turbulence that’s symptomatic of broad corporate governance failures within the country’s state owned enterprises.

A flock of political leaders is playing pigeon chess across the world. In pigeon chess, the pigeon knocks over all the chess pieces, deposits its droppings on the board and struts around proclaiming victory.

In February every year every university Vice-Chancellor writes to the alumni and friends of the university requesting donations.

In December 2015, Reshall Jimmy burnt to death in his 1.6-litre EcoBoost Ford Kuga in South Africa. Since then a recorded 51 Kugas have caught alight across the country, and two more in Swaziland and Botswana.

Remgro chairman Johann Rupert’s off the mark on the King code recommendations — it was not developed to create nonsense or unnecessary burdens for business.

Bursary opportunities for 2017.

Former state president Kgalema Motlanthe has said the only way to address ruling party “arrogance and deceit” is to hold leaders accountable.

On Saturday, 27th August 2016 Rhodes Business School launched the very successful and well received Biz Community Workshop, the first of a series of community workshops.

Leaders and Misleaders – what a fine distinction to make, as Andre van Heerden has done in his book Leaders and Misleaders; The art of leading like you mean it.

Michael Green, CEO of the Social Progress Imperative, has developed and advanced the Social Progress Index as a measure of how well countries perform, not solely in terms of GDP per capita, but also in social and environmental indicators.

An astonishing fossil find from 360-million years ago was made in June during road construction on the N2 highway near the Eastern Cape’s Grahamstown.

Too often, I hear that the humanities are unimportant, that there are too many humanities graduates and not enough graduates in disciplines such as engineering.

Earlier this month, I received an e-mail from a young graduate, Jabulane Tshabalala (25), who lives in Johannesburg, works for CIPAL Telecoms, and is furthering his studies.

Pinned to the wall in my office are two quotes: “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking,” by Voltaire;

Please take a few minutes to see how we have stuffed up higher education funding

Despite freedom of information legislation, despite leaks and the difficulty today’s governments face in keeping things secret — despite all these and more — the actual operations of those who hold power may well be growing more, not less, opaque.

LUMKA Mphande (27) from Tembisa is a call centre supervisor who started his own business, Bumka Scooter Rental.

Many tax commentators were surprised at the national budget speech announcement that there will be another offshore amnesty starting on 1 October 2016

THINK of a gathering of 900,000 people — the annual population increase in SA, based on the 1.65% growth rate of the population of 55-million, according to Statistics SA’s mid-2015 figures.

Fellow graduates and the business community of South Africa, I appeal for your support in getting behind a humanitarian crisis that is fast developing at our universities.

I can walk my dogs through a field full of mielies and they won’t pinch even one.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will give what is most likely his toughest budget ever next week

By Prof. Owen Skae WE WENT to Davos to see the wonderful wizards of wealth: a guild of the rich and powerful who pledge to increase justice and end poverty, but who find it perfectly on form that the world’s 62 richest billionaires — many of whom were represented at Davos — have as much wealth as 3.6-billion people today.

Few economists will question the wisdom of the Reserve Bank's 50 basis point increase announced on Thursday 28 January 2016. The increase came as no surprise.

The definition of a privileged South Africans should be ‘those who don’t have to kneel and beg in front of a bank manager or loan shark every January.’

The 2015 student protests brought a victory for all, the waiving of any increases in fees. The shortfall is to be picked up by government and universities’

As the current tax year comes to an end and new legislation looks set to kick in, Matthew Lester is sinking his teeth into the countless issues on the go.

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School welcomed Gregory Mills, Head of Brenthurst Organisation and Jeffery Herbst, an American Political Scientist to launch their new book, How South Africa Works.

Demand for internationally relevant management and leadership education in South Africa has resulted in the South African Business Schools Association (SABSA) appointing internationally renowned Dr Millard Arnold as its first permanent executive director.

When Dr Chuka Onaga took over the Clinical services of Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown in August 2013 as Acting Chief Medical Officer, the hospital (a Private Public Partnership) was seeking to fill several vacancies for doctors.

“The best way to grow economies and create jobs is to support and develop high-growth entrepreneurial businesses,” says Catherine Townshend, the CEO of Endeavor South Africa and a Rhodes Business School graduate.

When Dr Chuka Onaga took over the Clinical services of Settlers Hospital in Grahamstown in August 2013 as Acting Chief Medical Officer, the hospital (a public-private institution) was seeking to fill several vacancies for doctors.

THE WORLD Economic Forum’s latest global competitive index ranks South Africa’s business schools as 24th in the world.

Outlining the various ways in which corporate South Africa has engaged the emerging green global economy

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School is addressing critical skills shortages in business with a six-month programme in business analysis that is educating South Africans to take up positions formerly filled by foreign nationals, university communications officer Zamuxolo Matiwana said in a press statement.

Calling for a more nuanced debate about the role of tax in the South African economy and broader society

The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Business School is addressing critical skills shortages in business with a six-month programme in business analysis that is educating South Africans to take up positions formerly filled by foreign nationals, university communications officer Zamuxolo Matiwana said in a press statement.

THE newly appointed chief executive officer of uShaka Marine World, Stella Khumalo, is taking the helm of one of Durban's most important tourism assets at a critical point in its history its 10-year anniversary which is a celebration of what it has achieved so far and a launching point for accomplishing even more.

A respected South African political analyst has predicted President Jacob Zuma's second term of office would be mired by succession battles