Sakeliga donates R50 000 to PANDA to end lockdowns, encourages further donations

Business group Sakeliga is giving R50 000 to kickstart the campaign by South African-based anti-lockdown group Pandemic Data and Analytics (PANDA) to end lockdowns world-wide.  The donation is part of a crowd-fund hosted by Business for Ending Lockdown, a group of local business organisations representing more than 50 000 businesses and thousands of supporters.  Piet […]


Sakeliga’s Comment on the Tourism Amendment Bill of 2019

The Tourism Amendment Bill [2019] was published by the department of tourism on the 15th of April 2019 for public comment. Among other changes, the bill aims to amend the Tourism Act in order to empower the minister of tourism to set national thresholds for short-term home–rental. Short-term home–rental is defined in the bill as ‘the renting or leasing on a temporary basis, for reward, of a dwelling or part thereof, to a visitor.’   […]


Business organisations start campaign to end lockdown completely 

Business organisations in South Africa are coming together in a campaign to end lockdown. They are not satisfied by lockdown moving from one level to another and want to make it clear that business is insisting on a complete end to lockdown.  Signatories so far represent more than 50 000 members and include the LWO Employers Organisation, National Employers Association […]


Sakeliga ondersteun Business for Ending Lockdown 

Die sakegroep Sakeliga is trots om ‘n stigtersondertekenaar van die Business for Ending Lockdown-veldtog te wees.  Piet le Roux, uitvoerende hoof van Sakeliga, sê die beëindiging van die grendelstaat is die enigste manier om te herstel van die ontvouende humanitêre ramp. “Eerstens, as besigheid wil ons nie ‘n verandering in vlakke, of meer kommissies, of meer uitsonderings hê nie. Ons wil ‘n volledige hervatting van ekonomiese aktiwiteit hê, met die vryheid om gesondheidsmaatreëls […]


Business organisations start campaign to end lockdown completely 

Business organisations in South Africa are coming together in a campaign to end lockdown. They are not satisfied by lockdown moving from one level to another and want to make it clear that business is insisting on a complete end to lockdown.  Signatories so far represent more than 50 000 members and include the LWO Employers Organisation, National Employers Association […]


Policy Radar: ANC Lekgotla’s likely impact on South Africa’s economic policy

The ANC’s first Lekgotla in 2020 was concluded on 20 January 2020 with an unexpected media address by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his capacity as head of the ANC. Given that, in the recent past, it was Ace Magashule who concluded these events, and considering a behind-the-scenes political battle between Ramaphosa and Magashule, political analysts […]


Sakeliga’s Comment on the Tourism Amendment Bill of 2019

The Tourism Amendment Bill [2019] was published by the department of tourism on the 15th of April 2019 for public comment. Among other changes, the bill aims to amend the Tourism Act in order to empower the minister of tourism to set national thresholds for short-term home–rental. Short-term home–rental is defined in the bill as ‘the renting or leasing on a temporary basis, for reward, of a dwelling or part thereof, to a visitor.’   […]


AfriBusiness Conference: “The Blockchain revolution: What Bitcoin and its technology means to you”

The business organisation AfriBusiness will on 22 November 2017 host a conference titled “The Blockchain revolution: What Bitcoin and its technology means to you”, about Bitcoin and the technology it includes. Speakers include Dawie Roodt (Head Economist of the Efficient Group), Chris Becker (economist concerned with Blockchain technology at Investec), Andries Brink (CEO and founder of Andile […]