On Wednesday 25th February 2009 I had the privilege to attend a one day Sales and Business Growth Training presented by Bettina Harvath from Sales Partners Cape Region. As a business owner you always have this view that you should know, or at least create the impression that you know what, when and where. During [...]
I had the privilege of attending the Berg river Table grape Producers Association’s “block” competition this weekend. This is a competition to evaluation the standard of a block of vineyard that has been identified by the farmer or the farm manager and entered into the competition. I was amazed at the amount of planning and [...]
You always hear that someone knows someone that this happened to. Credit card fraud has become a major problem in our lives. And now with the festive season upon us it is even more relevant. This happened to me today (19/12/2008). I received an incontact message this morning at about 10am that stated that funds [...]
The reserve bank manager TT Mboweni has just announced the interest rate cut of 0.5%. This is based on the reduction of inflation over the past quarter. CPIX inflation has declined from 13.6% in August 2008 to 12.4% in October 2008. The producer price inflation has decreased from 19.1% in August 2008 to 14.5% in [...]
It was the deadline for the manual submissions of your 2008 personal income tax return today. It is amazing how things have changed. Previously tax payers were not so inclined to submit tax returns. Now with the marketing that SARS has done over the passed 3 years things have changed dramatically. The Belleville branch had [...]