The 2013 Tomorrow’s Leaders Leadership Survey (TLLS) revealed that the respondents surveyed displayed average confidence levels of 52% when questioned about the current leadership levels within South Africa. According to Dylan James, director of the Tomorrow’s Leaders Convention, this startlingly dismal figure highlights the youth's lack of confidence in South Africa’s future leadership.

The Spur Corporation’s January report indicates that the franchise group’s restaurant sales across its portfolio – which includes Spur, Panarottis and John Dory’s – increased by 17.5% in the six months leading up to December.

“What would you think of a physician who couldn’t read x-rays or lab reports, or a conductor who couldn’t read music?” asks Colin Firer, programme director of Finance for Non-Financial Managers at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (GSB). “For someone involved in business – any kind of business and in any department or sector – a lack of basic financial literacy could be just as dangerous.”

The biggest challenge in processing sugar cane fibre for ethanol is to reduce the costs thereof. Yuda Benjamin has developed a new scientific method as part of his doctoral research in process engineering, which could identify cost-effective varieties of sugar cane for ethanol production.

Identity theft is widespread and ongoing. “Don’t ever think it can never happen to you because, without the right precautions, it can,” cautions Sharon Coppola, legal risk and compliance executive at information services group, Experian.