SEASON OF CONTRASTS

SEASON OF CONTRASTS It’s a time of year when exactly what we should be focusing on is not immediately apparent. We’re still stuck with the same preoccupations that we carried over from 2018 – none of them in any way inspiring. This year has brought little by way of solutions. But now we have begun […]

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BUILDING STRONG CHILDREN

BUILDING STRONG CHILDREN If you’re looking for predictions about where South Africa is going in 2019, you’re spoilt for choice. Mainstream and social media, as well as informal opinion platforms are full of experts happy to offload their views – many of them negative. It’s a doomsday theorist’s delight, and it can be very destructive. […]

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Construction Industry Under Siege

Construction Industry Under Siege Our construction industry remains in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. This is not only due to the disastrous legacy of the Zuma era and government’s ongoing indecisiveness in creating economic confidence, but also to the steady expansion of “the construction mafia” – which has now infiltrated Gauteng and other […]

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CONTEMPLATING THE CLOUDY CRYSTAL BALL

CONTEMPLATING THE CLOUDY CRYSTAL BALL My natural optimism may not have been immediately evident as we started our blockbuster 113th Master Builders South Africa (MBSA) Congress in Port Elizabeth, but it’s my belief that there is a distinct difference between gloomy pessimism, and a good hard airing of the facts, however unpalatable, with the object […]

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INTERESTING TIMES

INTERESTING TIMES August started out with Zimbabweans demonstrating in the streets of Harare because they reckoned the results of their general election had been rigged. There were threats of making the country ungovernable. South Africa kicked off Women’s Month with mass marches intended to shut down the economy – even if just for a day. […]

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BATTEN DOWN – THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR HEROICS

BATTEN DOWN – THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR HEROICS Just how volatile that thing we call ‘sentiment’ can be, is illustrated by the business sector’s massive surge in confidence in the first quarter of this year. Jumping from 34 in the last quarter of last year, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index made a blockbuster […]

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Joyce Dolly Tembe elected for third successive term

Joyce Dolly Tembe elected for third successive term On 26 June 2018, KwaZulu-Natal Master Builders and Allied Industries Association held its 117th Annual General Meeting which saw the Association’s first Woman President Joyce Dolly Tembe, being elected for her third successive term. In her address, the President noted that over the past year, global economic […]

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Wilmot elected President of MBA North

Wilmot elected President of MBA North Master Builders Association North elected Jason Wilmot, director of Sir John Hire, as President at its 113th Annual General Meeting held in Midrand on 2 February 2017. Musa Shangase, Commercial Director of Corobrik was elected Vice President and Wayne Albertyn of Gothic Construction as Junior Vice President. Bongani Malazi […]

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