Howard Booysen, the first aspiring winemaker to be selected for the Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé programme, is off to California to experience first hand the grape harvest in this prominent wine region in the USA.
26 Aug 2008

A Dutch organisation is offering to help Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa, by providing the free services of retired managers willing to transfer their knowledge and experience to local entrepreneurs. 26 Aug 2008

Wines of South Africa (WOSA), the not-for-profit organisation that promotes South African wines worldwide, is initiating a novel job-creation campaign to train 2010 wine waiters ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
31 Jul 2008

Professor Byron Sharp leads the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, which conducts serious research and development into how marketing works based on over 80 years of data from top global companies. Join him at South Africa's first ever Retail Advertising Conference, where he will demolish six myths of retailing. 23 Jul 2008

South African consumers are set to become some of the best protected in the world with the new consumer protection legislation in the pipeline; companies, however, will have to change the way they do business. 22 Jul 2008

In an effort to assist debt counsellors overcome the challenges they are facing, the National Credit Regulator (NCR) and the Banking Association of South Africa (BASA) are currently conducting training sessions for debt counsellors until the end of August 2008. 9 Jul 2008

The enterprise is just beginning to scratch the surface of possibilities for putting video game technologies to smart business uses. One is customer service training. Sophisticated systems that can measure subtleties like employee-customer eye contact, for example, can bring a certain amount of scientific order to the art of effective human interaction. 1 Jul 2008