Numerous taxes threaten businesses in Africa: CEOs

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A group of South Africa's top CEOs have slept rough on the streets of Johannesburg to raise money for a local children's charity.

Bashir Partner KPMG, (PWC) Country Senior Partner.

Issues affecting East African region’s economic progression are expected to take centre stage at this year’s East Africa Business Summit (EABS) to be held in Kigali, Rwanda as from June 4 – 6.

The two-day Summit, themed Positioning East Africa for Inclusive Prosperity in 2020 and beyond, is expected to bring together over 100 top Chief Executives Officers, financiers and government officials who will also discuss ways of exploiting...

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“Africa will only succeed when all public and private sector stakeholders will join their efforts” – AU Commissioner

 Top global and African Chief Executive Officers today launched a Continental Business Network (CBN) to fast-track high-level private sector investment into Africa’s regional infrastructure. 

The launch of the CBN on the side-lines of the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, is the mandated follow-up and implementation of recommendations emanating from...

The government is still grappling with the crop marketing problems.The situation is happening although the government embarked on a number of crop marketing reforms.

Lars Rebien 

The world’s top-performing CEO isn’t a household name. In fact, Lars Rebien Sørensen doesn’t even look like a big-time global executive. We recently traveled to the quiet town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, to meet with the CEO of the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk at his lakefront summer home. He met us in shorts, sandals, and a polo shirt, dressed for a bike ride later that day.

 How did this mild-mannered, bespectacled executive land in the #1 spot on our list? It’s...

In the world over, unemployment among youth is very high. Unlike in the 70s, students who graduated from colleges in the country were assured of employment as they were directly posted to various workplaces. These days, most youth who graduate from various colleges are jobless.

CEOs punch holes in new education policy
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THE CEO Roundtable of Tanzania (CEOrt) has taken issue with the newly-launched education policy which, among others, replaced English with Kiswahili as a medium of instruction in primary and secondary schools. In a statement availed to this paper on ...