Author: The Editorial Team

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Imperial Logistics Ltd. is looking to expand into air and sea transportation as the Africa-focused logistics group offers more services to multinationals with sales on the continent. The Johannesburg-based company delivers goods for the likes of U.K. drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Dutch brewer Heineken NV mainly via land routes to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Now, it wants to add the ability to pick up products from manufacturing sites in Asia to complete the…

JOHANNESBURG (Capital Markets in Africa) – Twenty-five years after the African National Congress ended apartheid, it faces being brought down by an increasingly young and urbanized electorate.  In the South African township where Nelson Mandela joined the struggle against apartheid, Lordwick Nxumalo is reduced to hustling for a living. Each day, he and other young jobless men of Soweto hang around on Walter Sisulu Square, waiting to take passport pictures for documents like driving licenses….

Franchise opportunities – Africa’s economy will grow faster than any other continent’s over the next five years and flexible working is a huge part of that future International Workplace Group (IWG plc) this month announced the expansion of the first flexible office space franchise opportunity in Africa. The company is currently seeking driven multi-brand franchise operators, landlords, private equity firms and high net-worth individuals to seize the opportunity to buy into the lucrative flexible working…