Long and lean road to reviving South African Airways

lign="center">The North-West University’s Ofentse Mokwena, a transport economist, takes a look at South African Airways’ dire financial and management situation. He also elucidates on some possible solutions.

South African Airways (SAA) had hidden vulnerabilities while it was in Transnet Ltd up to the mid-2000s. But leading up to that, it…

US President-elect Joe Biden – possible economic implications for SA and the world

“The election of Joe Biden as United States (US) president-elect could eventually create an opportunity for South Africa to buttress its economic narrative with the US from both a trade and an investment point of view.”

This is according to Prof Raymond Parsons, economist at the North-West University (NWU) Business School.

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What will determine the credibility of the latest Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS)?

According to Prof Raymond Parsons, economist at the North-West University (NWU) Business School, the difficulties and dilemmas facing Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni in the latest MTBPS must be acknowledged, and the credibility of the latest fiscal framework will now largely rest on the extent to which the growth plan and other structural…

NWU on CIMA’s shortlist for several awards

The North-West University is on the shortlist for two global awards and another one focusing on Africa in this year’s Excellence Awards of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Two lecturers in the Management Accountancy honours programme in the School of Accounting Sciences are also finalists for the Teaching…

TRADE in the “new normal” webinar focuses on Africa

The Trade and Development (TRADE) research entity at the North-West University (NWU) and the TRADE Research Advisory, a spin-off company of the university, hosted the eighth TRADE-Decision Support Model User Group webinar, drawing more than eighty international attendees.

The webinar was hosted on 15 October by Prof Wilma Viviers,…

Pre-TSD and the Covid-19 conundrum

The impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on our mental health cannot be understated. From a South African perspective, months of a hard lockdown has changed the way we live, the way we work and the very way we operate. Mentally we have not escape unscarred.

A new study by Afriforte and the WorkWell research unit at the North-West…

Economic recovery plan should have said more about implementation and timelines

While there are positive features to the latest economic reconstruction and recovery plan, it needed to say much more about implementation processes and timelines, says North-West University (NWU) Business School economist, Prof Raymond Parsons.

“The fact that the long-awaited economic reconstruction and recovery plan announced on…

Smarketing: Putting your money where your nose is

Marketers and retailers are finding increasingly ingenious ways to lure prospective buyers to their products. And, according to Dr Roland Goldberg, a senior lecturer in marketing at the North-West University (NWU), your wallet is more closely connected to your nose than you might think.

One of his fields of expertise is retail…

TRADE takes international collaboration to the next level

The TRADE research focus area at the North-West University (NWU) hosted an online world tour to take international collaboration to the next level in the time of Covid-19.

Prof Danie Meyer, a development economist and director of TRADE, says the event, which took place on 2 October, was organised with the aim to ensure that “we at the…

NWU Business School Think Tank on local government

The Business School of the North-West University (NWU) held its fourth digital Think Tank on the state of local government in South Africa, with the focus on the section 139 interventions in local government.

Four presenters were invited to participate and a lively discussion took place afterwards. Mr Ben Bole, a PhD student at the…