Eskom Development Foundation CEO, Cecil Ramonotsi, shares some insight into the reinvention of small businesses during turbulent times...
Cecil Ramonotsi 6 Apr 2021
One of the great challenges of the 21st Century is the need to reduce poverty levels and economic inequality globally...
Soromfe Uzomah 16 Oct 2020
In June, the International Trade Centre launched a report titled Covid-19: The Great Lockdown and its Impact on Small Business...
Kingsley Ighobor 3 Aug 2020
Maryanne Maina interviews Adebola Williams, CEO of StateCraft in Nigeria, a political communications company, on their mission to galvanise a generation to make informed choices...
Maryanne Maina 14 Jan 2020
According to Old Mutual Limited CEO Peter Moyo, driving financial inclusion amongst entrepreneurs and small business owners in Africa will ensure...
Unrealised growth potential and positive demographics continue to make Africa an attractive long-term investment destination, despite the SME funding gap...
St John Bungey 7 Jun 2017
Limpopo province's smallholder farmers are continuously confronted with the challenges of raising their productivity to boost food security due to limited access and low use of fertilisers...
Academics from Milpark's School of Investment and Banking attended the recent 7th Annual Retail Banking Africa conference in Johannesburg where the banking landscape of Africa was critically reviewed...
Issued by Milpark Education 17 Dec 2015
The early-stage technology venture capital firm, EchoVC Partners, has provided seed funding for Nigeria-based digital printing startup, Printivo...
Advanced technology is increasingly shaping Africa's financial sector. While the sector is mature in most developed countries, it is less saturated in Africa, therefore offering many opportunities for new market entrants to challenge the status quo of how business has traditionally been conducted...
As a result of advancing technology which is fueling innovation and growth, the financial services industry in Africa is rapidly evolving...
The African financial services industry is rapidly evolving as a result of advancing technology which is fueling innovation and growth in the sector...
Intelsat S.A. will reportedly provide a managed broadband service to Vodacom, enabling the telecoms company to offer a differentiated broadband service targeting the SOHO and SME users across sub-Saharan Africa.
The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) commemorated its one year since its launch during the annual general meetings of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on 1 June 2012.
Kenya's first and largest Islamic bank Gulf African Bank, has signed a KSh100 million agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to support lending to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country.
MTN Business has launched a pilot project for its MTN cloud bouquet of services that will among other things provide a single point of contact for its customers‚ it said on Thursday, 6 December 2012.
Thabiso Mochiko 7 Dec 2012
The Standard Bank Group is launching a new lending facility that uses a psychometric assessment to provide loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa with the aim to revolutionise the way finance is advanced to the largely informal business sector.
LISBON: The AfDB-EMRC SME Forum was inaugurated in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday, 6 June 2011, by Carlos Costa Pina, Portugal's secretary of state for treasury and finance, as the role of Africa's small and medium enterprises sector is given priority for the continent's future growth.
Africa has more than 500 million people of working age out of a population of about one billion but the lack of work opportunities, coupled with economic mismanagement and unfair redistribution of income, have forced many Africans to resort to informal methods to make a living.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 5 May 2011