According to Charles Brewer, managing director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, this acknowledgement will generate great and positive spillover effects to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr Salifou Siddo, chief executive for the Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP), has welcomed the announcement from Craig Drysdale, CEO of Springbok Atlas Luxury Charter, about its commitment to support TEP’s Enterprise Development Portfolio (EDP).

Conducting business internationally and attempting to stick to the correct protocol while trying to navigate your way through cultural etiquette that is extremely foreign to your own, can be tricky at the best of times. For example, even if both parties speak the same language in their respective countries, there could still be other underlying differences to consider.

In 2000, during the National Economic Development and Labour Council job summit, the South African government set a target that by 2005, people with disabilities would make up 2% of the workforce. But in 2012, the number of employed persons with disabilities remains less than 1%.

The festive season is synonymous with extravagant spending, with one certainty: financial problems come January.