Pardon Makumbe, co-founder and managing partner of CRE Venture Capital, chats about the challenges of raising capital in Africa and shares advice on crossing the bridge to the US...
Evan-Lee Courie 12 May 2021
Broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Maggs has joined Brave Group as managing director of Bold, its executive communications and advisory firm...
Issued by The Brave Group 5 May 2021
The company also announced the opening of applications for the sixth class of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme...
Even before Covid-19, businesses faced increasing pressure to focus on transformation, but after the disruptions of the last year, the pandemic has presented organisations with new challenges to adapt to...
The old adage talks about how to react when life gives you lemons - but under circumstances unseen in our lifetime, what do you do when life hands you a pandemic?
Johanna McDowell 22 Apr 2021
The main objective of CSI should be to implement meaningful programmes that have a positive, sustainable and measurable impact on communities...
Covid-19 definitely caught a lot of us small business owners napping. It brought with it challenges that we did not expect and forced us to think quickly on our feet...
Miranda Lusiba 15 Apr 2021
Kenya has started the first phase of its Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This was made possible by the delivery of just over one million AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in two batches...
Catherine Kyobutungi 9 Apr 2021
Driven by powerful AI that is continuously validated by GfK's experts, gfknewron gives instant access to GfK's independent, predictive analytics for tech consumer goods across 27 countries...
Issued by GfK South Africa 7 Apr 2021
I have been staring at this rock for three days. It may have hypnotised me. I have become convinced it is trying to tell me something. I have smiled at it. I have photographed it. Once or twice, I have turned quickly trying to catch it unawares. But nothing. On the third day, however, I started to understand...
Damon Stapleton 25 Mar 2021
South Africa's economic recovery relies to a large extent on creating a more enabling business environment and putting the right structural economic reforms in place.
Ian van Niekerk 16 Mar 2021
South Africa needs more women entrepreneurs and business owners to help tackle local unemployment, breathe innovation into lacklustre sectors, and help drive economic recovery in the country...
Divya Vasant 15 Mar 2021
If you are a business owner who is just getting started on your official website, here are five tips for you to keep in mind...
Andrew Bourne 10 Mar 2021
Hollard will be sharing its 'big advertising' spaces with 12 budding SMMEs over the next six months...
Issued by Hollard 5 Mar 2021
Building a small business is an extreme sport but a mindset shift by asset managers to start investing in startups can support promising small enterprises, which in turn should use their nimbleness to access markets that are hard to penetrate...
The sheer enormity of the sudden-onset Covid crises took the wind out of sails across all industries, globally. However, writes CEO of the IAS and Scopen partner Johanna McDowell, there are gems shining brightly across the marketing landscape everywhere...
2Stories is a new content collective by serial entrepreneur Joanne Hope and seasoned content director Anelde Greeff...
Evan-Lee Courie 22 Feb 2021
As a digital marketing agency that's been around for a while, we've identified the ways our clients have helped us achieve massive success for their business. Here are our four tips...
Trustlink Africa is a platform that aims to build more sustainable and bankable small/medium enterprises that are ready for access to funding and business opportunities made available by the government, corporates, and financial institutions...
Evan-Lee Courie 5 Feb 2021
Creatives Makhado is a platform designed and created by Muvhusi Tshilimandila to discover, uplift and unlock South Africa's creative talent...
Evan-Lee Courie 27 Jan 2021
The Shining Light Awards invites promising young diamond jewellery designers from Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa to showcase their talent...
Crises force change, and in the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world as we knew it was thrust into systemic and abrupt change. In many cases, this change triggered existential threats to organisations, both large and small...
Karl Westvig 9 Dec 2020
Cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension are major causes of death and disability, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)...
ProfitShare Partners, the fintech disruptor and force behind the year-long campaign with radio partner Hot 91.9FM to #GetSAWorking, has already boosted businesses with over R43m - "and there's more where that came from", says founder and CEO Andrew Maren...
Issued by Hot 91.9FM 17 Nov 2020
Coasting through the Covid-19 era has its ups and downs. The scale of disruption has forced communications agencies globally to rethink their strategies, which, for many has meant a radical pivot to be more digital...
Desiree Gullan, Issued by G&G Digital 30 Oct 2020
A value-adding 'green' chain called Clear to Grow is being applied in areas around South Africa to reduce invasive alien plant species, boost local economic development, replenish water table levels and grassland environments, create micro industries, and provide entrepreneurial development...
While many farmers still rely on traditional techniques to coax a living from the land, there are opportunities to use cutting-edge technology to drive Africa towards a food-secure future...
Amrote Abdella 21 Oct 2020
Radio futurologist James Cridland believes that while innovations like these point to a bright future for the over 100-year-old medium, it'll take more than adopting cool new tech to succeed in the increasingly splintered and diverse arena that radio is evolving into...
Issued by Fabrik 20 Oct 2020
Why you should consider transitioning your audience engagement and management to your own private platform...
Issued by Fabrik 13 Oct 2020
To hear some industry commentators tell it, Covid-19 is going to be the final nail in the coffin of retail as we know it. At best, they're over-simplifying. At worst, they're just wrong...
Lee Naik 13 Oct 2020
Local businesses, manufacturers, petrol stations, retailers, local products and services... in the absence of exports... have carried us through this pandemic, says Proudly South African's Happy Ngidi...
Lauren Hartzenberg 30 Sep 2020
Cape Town-based marketers Hillel Chemel and Jonathan Mayer recently launched Fundi.Digital to bridge the gap between South African businesses and local freelance marketing professionals...
Jessica Tennant 29 Sep 2020
KZN-based community radio station Izwi LoMzansi is looking to close the revenue gap with commercial radio stations by offering advertisers additional value through their mobile app inventory...
Issued by Fabrik 29 Sep 2020
Sustainability has become somewhat of a buzzword in recent years and for good reason. From best practise and sustainability within the workplace to multinational manufacturers going green, the increasing importance of it is all around us...
Issued by Topco Media 16 Sep 2020
Considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the country. The Standard Bank Top Women Awards are in their 17th year and their judging panel reads as a list of who's who of corporate South Africa...
Issued by Topco Media 16 Sep 2020
The South African media landscape is poised for a major shift today as it welcomes to its fold the first-of-its-kind isiZulu-medium online business publication. Published by Likhanyile Media, the publication is called Umbele, which means the udder...
If you're a hard-hitting side hustler who refuses to simply sit around and wait for fortune to find you, then the #OLXHoneYourHustle is the shot you've been waiting for...
Issued by OLX 7 Sep 2020
To help those who are new to the real estate industry, Dietmar Muller of RE/MAX Advance provides a few strategies that he used to become one of the fastest-growing success stories in his region...
Jarred Cinman, CEO of VMLY&R South Africa talks through the genesis of VMLY&R's Live from the Edge event series, born from the agency's Digital Edge podcast...
Jessica Tennant 1 Sep 2020
Oracle Media was recently announced as the IDC Job Creation Merit award-winner and the Best Provider of Service to Exporter winner at the 25th Exporter of the Year Awards...
Issued by Oracle Media 27 Aug 2020
The enthusiasm and commitment of role models, like my mother and grandmother, helped to spark my passion for contributing to the development of female leaders and entrepreneurs across the African continent...
Nunu Ntshingila 25 Aug 2020
Noobology - South Africa's fastest-growing video game podcast - gets #1 spot on Apple's iTunes Chart within a week of launch...
Whilst female entrepreneurship is on the rise globally, The World Bank's research shows that female entrepreneurs tend to encounter a unique set of challenges in starting and running their businesses...
Andiswa Bata 13 Aug 2020
SME South Africa commemorates Women's Month 2020 with the launch of the 'Breaking the Funding Glass Ceiling' series, sponsored by Nedbank...
Issued by 356 Oak Holdings 11 Aug 2020
At Saica's recent Leadership in a time of crisis series, actuary and innovator Dean Furman spoke about how the greatest innovation is created in tough times...
Issued by SAICA 28 Jul 2020
The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies...
Mills Soko 27 Jul 2020
We need to confront infrastructure and governance constraints that have hindered the growth of agriculture over the past two decades...
Like with many other industries, the world over, it has taken innovation, determination, and adaptability to continue business activities...
Dr Duncan MacFadyen 20 Jul 2020
South Africa needs a sounder mineral beneficiation policy to tackle the challenges the country faces, particularly rising unemployment. Its beneficiation policy is not very demanding and isn't pursued with any vigour...
Byelongo Elisée Isheloke 17 Jul 2020