Shave & Gibson won three awards at the annual Gold Pack Awards ceremony. The IPSA Gold Pack Awards is the showcase for the South African packaging industry and from its inception in 1973 it has grown into an event of considerable importance and prestige. The competition for medals is fierce, however the awards event is [...]
On 18 August 2016, Shave & Gibson turned 35 years old. What a ride, what a blast! Neville Shave and I were articled clerks at the time, doing the audit of the old Rydal Mount Hotel on Durban’s beachfront. Neville and his brother-in-law, Alan Gibson, set up their new company and bought little Group Print [...]
“I am angry. I am furious. Because I never thought it would happen to us. Not us, the rainbow nation that defied doomsayers and suckled and nurtured a fragile democracy into life for its children. I never thought it would happen to us, this relentless decline, the flirtation with a leap over the cliff.” View [...]
There is a sense of doom and gloom prevalent throughout this fair land, it seems. Talk of emigration; fear of racial pogroms; a gluttonous tax regime and the entrenched and seemingly irreversible tide of state corruption have conspired to bring levels of business confidence to their lowest ever ebb. But, we also have short memories: [...]
“Open for business” is a term often bandied about by our current government. In reality, this appears not to be the case. A ban on foreigners owning property (now partially reversed); a cap on farm ownership (which will make a mockery of farming economies of scale); failing public utilities and infrastructure; more draconian labour [...]
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY! Alan Paton’s words were never more appropriate than now, and these are brought even more into focus as the country bids farewell to that other doyenne of South African literary liberals, Nadine Gordimer. We have very few remaining loud voices of reason. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of the few. View [...]
As I sat down to write this editorial in the early hours of the morning of 6 December 2013, the sad news hit the internet that Madiba had died at around 21:30 on the evening of 5 December 2013. What a life well lived, and what an icon to guide us into the future. A [...]
