Top 5 on Fin24: Ramaphosa to review Govt department size, Airline geek's beating the competition with a newsroom run by robots

Cape Town - A roundup of Monday's top economic and finance reads on Fin24.

Ramaphosa: Govt department size under review, will be done by 2019

The process of reviewing the size of national government departments and the national executive is under way, President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed.

He was responding to a written parliamentary question from Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier about the process. During his maiden State of the Nation Address, Ramaphosa announced plans to review the "configuration, number and size of national government departments".

• READ: Ramaphosa: Govt department size under review, will be done by 2019

Why I moved back to Johannesburg from Cape Town

Cape Town corporates tend to blame the slow pace of transformation on black professionals leaving for Johannesburg. But how can black professionals stay in an environment that isn't conducive to their success, writes Tinyiko Ngwenya.

• READ: Why I moved back to Johannesburg from Cape Town

Racial exclusion from Sasol share plan means strike is possible

Government mediators ruled that workers at Sasol [JSE:SOL] are allowed to strike over the exclusion of white staff from an employee-shareholding plan.

Solidarity, a labour union that represents skilled, mainly white workers, registered a dispute with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, or CCMA, after Sasol introduced benefits that it said would exclude workers based on race.

• READ: Racial exclusion from Sasol share plan means strike is possible

Airline geek's beating the competition with a newsroom run by robots

Millennial Katsuhiro Yoneshige, now 29, realised the perilous situation of Japanese media when he was writing for an airline news website while still in middle and high school. The industry is too heavily staffed and doesn’t make enough money, he says.

Yoneshige’s startup is an example of how millennial entrepreneurs are harnessing social media to create businesses that reimagine how a given industry should work.

• READ: Airline geek's beating the competition with a newsroom run by robots

Be vigilant, warns Goliath and Goliath CEO after losing R300k in email scam

Goliath and Goliath CEO Kate Goliath is encouraging small businesses to ramp up security measures after her comedy and entertainment agency fell victim to invoice intercepting as a result of email hacking.

Goliath and Goliath is out of pocket for more than R300 000, while its subsidiary The PR Bailiff has been scammed out of R20 000.

• READ: Be vigilant, warns Goliath and Goliath CEO after losing R300k in email scam

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