WITS Business School Case Centre
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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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Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring: Could Yahluma Compete?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In January 2009, young entrepreneurs Ayanda Qunu and Thembi Bhayi abandoned their plans to start a fully owned contact centre, Yahluma Solutions Ltd, in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Tia’s Muesli: Small Dog in the Big Dogs’ Lair
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In April 2011, Hani Niayesh, owner and managing director of breakfast cereal manufacturer, Tia’s Muesli, received an unexpected phone call from the Pick n Pay Hypermarket Head Office.
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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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IDC: Prioritising Development Impact
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The main purpose of the case is to examine, understand and analyse the role of finance in economic development.
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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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The Don Group: Bitter End to Suite Dreams?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. By January 2011, Thabiso Tlelai, chief executive officer (CEO) of The Don Group, South Africa’s largest all-suite hotel chain, knew he had to take drastic measures to save the company.
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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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The Washing Powder Wars: Ariel versus Omo
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On 12 November 2014, Omo, Unilever South Africa’s premium washing powder brand, was facing the biggest challenge yet to its 50-year dominance of the South African washing powder market.
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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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Beauty Factory: Planning a Future in a Slow Economy
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Le-Sel Research, a family-owned, South African manufacturer of beauty products, launched Beauty Factory in 2011, after seeing a gap for affordable, high-quality beauty products.
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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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Kagiso Trust: Deciding its Future
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In November 2014, Kagiso Trust (KT) was at an important crossroads. Anti-apartheid struggle icons such as Dr Beyers Naudé and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had established the organisation with European Union (EU) funds in the 1980s to promote the struggle against apartheid.
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Old Mutual: Breaking into the Mass Market
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was November 2014 and just three months since Old Mutual, a well-established, global financial services group, had launched the 2-in-One Savings product to target the South African retail mass market.
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