By Dr Lisa Kinnear, Academic Director, TWIMS For the past 3 days I have had the privilege of spending time in conversation with a group of women leaders from the manufacturing sector in our Women as Manufacturing Leaders’ Programme at the Toyota Wessels Institute for...
Established by the Toyota SA Education Trust, TWIMS is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to developing manufacturing executives in Africa. TWIMS is an open institution, welcoming students from all industries and backgrounds. The future of manufacturing will likely...
Article by: Dr Lisa Kinnear You don’t need to have read the news, social media or have an MBA to know the distress experienced in this beautiful region of KwaZulu-Natal over the past few years. Sitting on the east coast of Southern Africa, we have joined the world in...
According to the OECD by the year 2040, 34% of youth (age 15-29) or 164 million young people in Africa will have at least an upper secondary or tertiary education. This positions the continent well towards being a manufacturing hub for goods for both domestic...
“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity...
“If we want to export and specialise more, to add value to our raw materials, we’ve got to make the AfCFTA work.” – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the head of the World Trade Organisation1 The recent upheavals in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng have fundamentally...
