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SIFISO SKENJANA: NDB offers investment opportunity for Transnet
The NDB offers alternative forms of locally-denominated funding for which the cost of debt repayment would be protected from a weakening currency, writes Sifiso Skenjana
SIFISO SKENJANA: Use Brics to build our industrial clusters
The industrial cluster concept could be a powerful economic shot-in-the-arm but it requires investment, writes Sifiso Skenjana
SIFISO SKEJANA: Want growth? Focus on hi-tech investment
Crowding investment into our digital economy will remain one of the critical levers for the global competitiveness of the South African economy, writes Sifiso Skenjana
SIFISO SKENJANA: These are the opportunities Covid-19 presents to insurers
Industry could cash in on aspects such as virtual healthcare and telemedicine
SIFISO SKENJANA: New opportunities open up in transport sector and warehousing
E-commerce and Covid-19 lockdown has spurred rise in online retail sales and growth of deliveries
SIFISO SKENJANA: Public employees must be brought up to speed to help with SA’s digital transformation
The government should ensure the skill set of its staff is able to respond to the delivery and execution needs of the migration
SIFISO SKENJANA: Benchmarks needed to get the measure of state’s effectiveness
The government needs to make transparent the indicators of human development against which it scores itself
SIFISO SKENJANA: Government should explore sectors that offer value to ailing SAA
The state should consider operational risk transfer mechanisms that would make the carrier interesting to local investors
SIFISO SKENJANA: Failure to prioritise capacity-building programmes blights planning
Manufacturing’s contribution to GDP has been consistently declining, raising questions of reindustrialisation
SIFISO SKENJANA: Flexible telecom firms to grab a bigger slice of fintech pie
These companies can penetrate the unbanked segment of the market with more agility than traditional banks























