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South African Budget 2019: Hard Choices in Tough Times
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Mboweni and his team had to find a way of putting the country on a path to fiscal sustainability, given the fiscal inheritance that his predecessors had left him.
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Member-focused PPS: Sustainability of a Business Model in a Changing Industry
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Was its niche in the insurance industry sufficiently deep? Could the dynamics of the financial markets have a negative impact on the company’s business model?
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The 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis: A Decade On
50,00 $CASE STUDY. While the general consensus was that the financial system had changed pursuant to 2008, as well as emerging stronger for all the changes that were made, the critical question remained – had it changed enough to prevent the events of 2007/8 repeating themselves?
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South African Budget 2018: Walking a Fiscal Tightrope
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Finding a way of halting the decline of South Africa’s finances while ensuring that the fiscus continued in its central role of supporting the poor.
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Soweto Style: Small Business Growing Pains
50,00 $CASE STUDY. How to grow the business while dealing with capacity and financial issues.
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The South African National Minimum Wage Conundrum: Equality vs Growth?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The South African government saw the national minimum wage (NMW) as a positive intervention that would address income inequality in the country and help to overcome poverty.
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Kalahari.com: Going Places with the Marketplace
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In February 2010, online retail company kalahari.com, launched the Marketplace, a trading platform aimed at allowing third parties to use the kalahari.com site to sell their goods.
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Standard Chartered Bank plc: Violating Banking Sanctions for Profit
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On 6 August 2012, Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), announced findings from an investigation of Standard Chartered Bank New York (SCBNY).
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Regulate or Motivate? A Salt Reduction Strategy for Processed Food in South Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Six months had passed since the South African government had gazetted draft regulations on salt content in food.
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OreCo North West: The Strike that Wasn’t
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In August 2012, 44 people were killed during an unprotected strike by employees of platinum miner, Lonmin, at its Marikana mine in South Africa’s North West province.
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Calum McCracken and NGN Telecoms: The Power of Perseverance
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2014, Calum McCracken, chief executive officer (CEO) of Next Generation Network Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd (NGN Telecoms), met with his partners to discuss the company’s Kenyan dilemma.
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The Sebata Group: Doing Business the African Way
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Matome Modipa, executive chairman and founder of the Sebata Group of technical engineering and management consultants, enjoyed coming to work.
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Dimension Data in Africa: Making BEE Work
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2012, IT firm Dimension Data paid out R1.26 billion to the various participants in a broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) deal that the company had signed eight years earlier.
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Poultry Tariffs: Levelling the Playing Field or Rewarding Inefficiency?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In July 2013, Siyabulela Tsengiwe – chief commissioner of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) – and ITAC commissioners met to make a final determination on a highly contentious customs tariff application.
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Industrial Relations in South Africa: Labour Laws, Labour Institutions and Political Disillusionment
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 2014, South Africa experienced its longest and costliest strike ever: a five-month stoppage in the platinum sector that cast doubt on the institutions and culture of the country’s labour relations framework.
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