The people affected by the startling unemployment rate aren't simply facing financial difficulties but will be struck by anxiety and stress as they consider what happens next...
Nontando Mthethwa 25 Mar 2021
Yogavelli Nambiar, CEO at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO) member firmly believes that shaping an entrepreneurial mindset starts at school level...
Evan-Lee Courie 27 Nov 2020
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The economic and social upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic underlines the need for a collective, and robust national strategy to unlock entrepreneurship in South Africa...
A struggling economy and an unemployment rate approaching 30% is one of the more serious issues in South Africa. One of the methods to tackle these two issues is through entrepreneurship...
Issued by Small Business Coach 24 Jan 2020
It is axiomatic to state that business models, across all sectors of the economy, are being fundamentally disrupted...
Dr Ahmed Shaikh, Issued by Regent Business School 16 Jan 2019
Youth entrepreneurship promotion at the heart of 'Africa Talks Jobs' conference...
The 2018 Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge is open for entry from schools around the country...
Silulo Ulutho Technologies, in partnership with Vodacom Business, launched the Silulo Business Incubation Centre in Mitchells Plain on Friday, 13 April 2018...
The Stanford Graduate School of Business, in partnership with the De Beers group, will invest $3m in an entrepreneurship educational programme in 2018 to empower young, budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa...
The overwhelming message from the winners and finalists of the FairLady Women of the Future Awards 2017, in partnership with Santam, is to seize the moment. Don't wait, jump in and start your business, live your dream and passion...
Danette Breitenbach 21 Aug 2017
A safe ride for kids and a youth consulting service have earned their owners winning places in the 2017 Fairlady Women of the Future competition...
Fairlady has announced the top 10 finalists in the Fairlady Women of the Future Awards 2017...
On 30 June 2017, the Central University of Technology (CUT) Free State inaugurated Professor Henk ‘Motsumi' de Jager as the newly appointed vice-chancellor and principal for the next five years...
South Africa has a high unemployment rate and sluggish economic growth. It's time to consider what our academic institutions can do to reduce unemployment and to help the poor...
Prof Dr Chris Friedrich 10 Mar 2017
The World Bank suggests that (formal) small and medium enterprises contribute up to 45% of total employment and a third of national income in emerging economies but in South Africa...
Sanisha Packirisamy 24 Oct 2016
Zimkhitha Peter, head of programmes at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and a firm believer in effecting social change through entrepreneurship, discusses the underrepresentation of women in the industry and how to cultivate young entrepreneurs in South Africa...
Pasqua Heard 31 Aug 2016
The project targets the creative industries, ICT, agribusiness, renewable energy, telecommunications, information technology and so on...
The recently released Global Entrepreneurship Monitor South African Report 2015/16 indicates that entrepreneurial intentions among South Africans has dropped by almost 30% in 2015...
With growing preference for self-employment over formal work, many people from different backgrounds are thriving in business today...
Solomon Asaba 8 Jun 2016
In an effort to address the high unemployment rate among the youth, Ithala Development Finance Corporation launched the 'Inkunz'isematholeni Youth in Business' programme in 2014, aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and providing skills development among the youth...
Millennials - those born between 1980 and 2000 - possess the entrepreneurial spirit and characteristics that are necessary to create employment and start businesses to combat the 60% youth unemployment in the country...
The curriculum planning team at Regent Business School decided to give meaning and expression to the term, "entrepreneurship", and make suggestions as to how it could become an overarching thematic mantra...
Issued by Regent Business School 8 Jun 2015
Six of Africa's top business schools have formed a new academic association to boost entrepreneurship and job creation on the continent...
Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 2 Apr 2015
Six of Africa's top business schools have formed a new academic association, the African Academic Association on Entrepreneurship (AAAE), to boost entrepreneurship and job creation on the continent...
Members of the media are invited to the launch of the Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) that will be hosted by the Department of Small Business Development and False Bay TVET College...
Issued by False Bay College 25 Feb 2015
False Bay TVET College has formed a partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to establish a Centre for Entrepreneurship...
Issued by False Bay College 3 Feb 2015
The 2014 Amway Global Entrepreneurship Report (AGER), conducted in partnership with the Chair of Strategy and Organisation of the School of Management, TUM in Munich, Germany, included South Africa for the first time...
PRETORIA: Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says the long-term solution to South Africa's unemployment crisis is to create a nation of entrepreneurs and not a nation of job-seekers.
Numerous academic and press articles, coupled with the decline of long-established industries, the global financial crisis, and high rates of unemployment worldwide have combined to play a significant role in an attitudinal change towards a phenomenon that has existed and that has been central to our existence, our psyche, our wealth accumulation, and indeed, our collective survival since time immemorial. The phenomenon is called entrepreneurship.
Mark Hay, Ahmed Shaikh, Osman Seedat, Dhiru Soni 12 Jun 2014
If South Africa is to overcome its problem of high youth unemployment, young men and women should look to running their own small businesses - and be taught how to do it from a young age.
Shamin Chibba 16 May 2014
South Africa's universities launched the Forum for Entrepreneurship Development Centres (FEDCI) last week on Mandela Day to develop the country's Universities as entrepreneurship and innovation centres.
Issued by Mortimer Harvey 30 Jul 2013
A centre for entrepreneurship that will promote entrepreneurship education, training and development has been opened, the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) said on Tuesday.
Uganda wants to teach its children lessons in finance and in doing so hopes to create a generation of entrepreneurs, Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda reports from Kampala. The implications for businesses planning on going into the Ugandan market could be very significant in years to come.
Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda 21 Feb 2007