SA needs to face the many obstacles preventing the country from harnessing the economic power that its entrepreneurs possess

Although South African business has a perennial landscape of worthy causes, choosing development-based corporate social investment (CSI) projects that yield positive results for the community as well as for the companies involved can prove confusing.

Read more: Rising to the challenge

Plans to increase employment by five million over the next 10 years

Last year, the South African government unveiled its plan to create five million jobs over the next decade and reduce unemployment by 10%.

Cabinet ministers have endorsed the government’s New Growth Path programme, which details its employment plans. The path will prioritise job creation in the government’s economic policy, Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane said in a statement on 26 October 2010. Chabane is responsible for monitoring and evaluation.

Read more: Set on a new path

Moky Makura has compiled stories from some of South Africa’s entrepreneurial giants, inspiring budding entrepreneurs to go where no man – or woman – has gone before

Read more: Fanning the entrepreneurial flame

Study reveals what attracts Generation Y in the workplace

New research from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) has shown that the entrance of Generation Y into the marketplace is shifting traditional employer-employee power relations, with some interesting implications for human resources practitioners.

Read more: The Go-Getters

Human resource practitioners have become an important component of a smoothly run business

The face of business pre-1994 was, in most instances, predictably that of a middle-aged white male. Democracy prompted an evolution that continues to change the way we do business and shape the country’s ability to compete on the global market: basically, changing the way we look at the world.

Read more: At the heart of the matter

ENTREPRENEURS BOOK REVIEW “Until lions learn to write, hunters will tell their history for them” In his foreword to Moky Makura’s Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs, Richard Branson describes the transformative function that entrepreneurs have always exercised.

Read more: The African story