Africa

Nobody’s perfect. What quality or ability do you wish you had?

There are lots of things I wish I could do better! Everything from eye-hand coordination to mathematics – the list is long. I often have a hard time being nice and it seems like I could be more patient with people. The ability to relax would be nice too…

What is the best business book you have ever read, and why?

From buildings and bridges to clean energy and clean water, Bentley Systems has been sustaining some of the world’s most significant infrastructure projects for close to 30 years.

When we think of infrastructure we tend to think about the hardware involved, be it the materials used or the equipment and tools to bring structures and buildings to life. What we tend to take for granted are the software solutions involved and how crucial they are to the entire process.

By embracing change and innovation, PetroSA is opening up new horizons for South Africa’s energy sector.

As the leading economic power in Africa, it’s no surprise that South Africa is a key player in the African oil industry. Liquid fuels are an important component of its energy sector, with the 2012 BP Statistical Energy Survey revealing that, in 2011, South Africa consumed an average of 547,250 barrels of oil per day.

Zimbabwe is starting to make up for lost time, but economic development will depend on robust infrastructure, including the sound telecommunications network being built by a community of private and state players under the watchful eye of national regulator POTRAZ.

Global telecommunications group Millicom is helping to foster women’s entrepreneurship in the fast growing African mobile financial services industry.

In a public-private partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), it aims to provide over 4,000 women throughout Tanzania, Ghana and Rwanda with support and training to set up a business as a Tigo Mobile Money agent, contributing to financial inclusion for themselves and thousands of other people.

A membership organization for the abattoir industry in South Africa, dedicated to best practice in the interests of consumer safety as well as the profitability of its members.

An extraordinary South African resource company with a strategic vision to become a $20 billion company by 2020.

Exxaro Resources is one of the largest South African diversified resource groups, with interests in coal, mineral sands, industrial minerals and iron ore. The company is the second-largest South African coal producer, and the third-largest global producer of mineral sands, a class of ore deposit which is an important source of zirconium, titanium, thorium, tungsten, and rare earth elements.

In the space of ten years Africa’s renewable energy sector has undergone phenomenal change. Managing director of African Energy, Lincoln Dahl, discusses how his company has remained at the centre of a rapidly evolving market.

CEO Monehela Posholi talks about the regulator’s responsibility and challenges in meeting the population’s expectations for 21st century communications.