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An enterprise's assets may be broadly divided into two categories: physical assets - including buildings, machinery, financial assets and infrastructure - and intangible assets - ranging from human capital and know-how to ideas, brands, designs and other intangible...
A thirty-year vision and a ten-year plan to operationalise it were approved on the same day by the same body — and so was the decision to scrap an existing labour protocol before its replacement had been written. On 17 August 2020, the 40th Ordinary Summit of SADC...
A regional bloc of sixteen sovereign states has just adopted a single ten-year strategic document meant to guide them all toward one long-range vision. The intellectual puzzle in that sentence is not whether the document is well designed — it plainly reflects years of...
According to the updated registers at the Department of Social Development, there are slightly over 80,000 compliant NPOs in South Africa. In recent years there were over 150,000, but due to non-compliance and financial challenges, almost half were classified as...
In 1886, John Stith Pemberton invented Coke, and in that year, it is said he only sold 25 bottles of his product. In today's value that would be lightly over US$20 if you are in South Africa. It dawned on me the other day that, like Coke, there are some businesses...
As we prepare for Post-Corona New Normal in global and local economics, Zambian business owners and brands, can no longer ignore the intellectual property issues arising from product package designing that affect the sales or their products – Trade Dress. In the...
Out of the sixteen countries in Southern Africa (SADC), the most inventive and innovative women are from Botswana, as was revealed by a report by the UK Intellectual Property Office in September 2019, titled “Gender Profiling in Worldwide Patenting: An Analysis of...
Out of the sixteen countries in Southern Africa (SADC), the most inventive and innovative women are from Botswana, as was revealed by a report by the UK Intellectual Property Office in September 2019, titled “Gender Profiling in Worldwide Patenting: An Analysis of...
The power of crowds possessed by Wildebeests on the move into a new season is unstoppable; as is the two dynamic behaviours of South African when exhibiting ubuntu (love), and xenophobia (hate) for any cause. Understanding how South African citizens can fall on one...