Proudly SA: Ensuring your value proposition is worth it

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Finding a niche in your chosen sector is challenging in this fast-moving economy, and being original or distinctive is virtually impossible.

Proudly SA: Creating employment in SA through re-industrialisation

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Operational investment in the country's seven SEZs is reported to be around R19 billion … writes Eustace Mashimbye.

PROUDLY SA: The meaning of heritage when buying local products

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Laduma has shown that there is room for luxury, local items with a certain price tag.

Tito Mboweni’s focus on local procurement is most welcome

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: His vision is to kickstart the SA economy in the short term and to ensure sustained growth ? Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: Putting more home-grown products on retailer shelves

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

The retail value chain is complex and extensive and represents hundreds of thousands of jobs.

OPINION:SA's furniture industry clawing its way back to its former glory

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Stakeholders confront the challenges that are facing the sector to map a way forward, writes Eustace Mashimbye.

#SavingsMonth: SA entrepreneurs also struggle under debt

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

July is Savings Month, and much has been written on the subject of South Africans’ poor culture of putting money aside.

OPINION: Middleman is not economic empowerment

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

In all of our tender procurement processes we are all extremely vigilant, looking out for evidence of spurious joint ventures writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Load shedding opens the door for imports to flood the local market

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: A few days of load shedding often has far-reaching implications that SMEs can feel for months if not years ? writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Retail business needs to be fully supported

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: Trading results have painted a sorry picture of the slump in sales in shopping malls across the country ? writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Illegal imports are damaging the South African economy

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: Menace of items that have been produced overseas and brought in through the back door … writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Silly season sales should be channelled into local products

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: With many online shoppers anxious about the reliability of delivery, it's the safe way to go.

PROUDLY SA: The role of unions in increasing localisation

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

The labour movement has a vested interest in encouraging localisation … writes Eustace Mashimbye.

PROUDLY SA: Time to wake up to the high quality of locally made goods

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

International brands manufacture their products here but are never questioned on price… writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Cost of merely existing a reality for many South Africans

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Our new Cabinet has the unenviable task of stimulating enough growth to create jobs

OPINION: Proudly SA to play its part in war against unemployment

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

The Jobs Summit called for clear and measurable solutions to the crisis… writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: Let's take a leaf from Trump's book, boost manufacturing

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: It's time to 'find the gap' and fill it with factories manned by a skilled SA workforce… writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: KZN initiative of excellence does our country proud

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

We travelled with our “cousins” Brand SA and Tourism SA to KZN, celebrating investment in our economy, heritage and tourism… writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: Pre-election spending actions of our leaders will reveal a lot

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

PROUDLY SA: How they use their funds will show us if they're serious about the unemployment crisis… writes Eustace Mashimbye.

Keep money circulating locally to uplift society

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

It is often cited that money spent in a Jewish community remains in that community for up to a month before someone breaks the chain.

OPINION: Bribery and nepotism are our big job killers

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

It is with a great sense of dismay that we received the latest unemployment figures last week, writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: The power of franchises in South Africa’s economy

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Franchises employ some 343 000 people, of which 20 000 work for the franchisors and the balance in the individual branches writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: Choose local fashion, it’s lekker

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

Proudly SA hosted its third sector specific business forum of the year, putting the spotlight this time on footwear writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION:South Africa has far more talent than we really give it credit for

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

We South Africans have a lot to be proud of, writes Eustace Mashimbye.

OPINION: Procuring from local sources imperative

Eustace Mashimbye|Published

procurement is one of the fastest growing professions writes Eustace Mashimbye.