SAB KickStart, the Urban Agriculture programme has announced nine finalists who will receive training and investment to grow their farming businesses...
5 Nov 2019
Do you have a business idea that addresses a social or environmental problem? Together with the SAB Foundation, the Gordon Institute of Business Science is giving away R50,000 in cash prizes!...
Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science 18 Oct 2019
A finalist for the 2019 SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award, Vollar has been making waves on the social enterprise scene since its inception. The new digital currency, as its name suggests, comes with an interesting twist...
Sindy Peters 23 Sep 2019
It is well known that persons with disabilities are often disproportionately poor as a result of a combination of barriers...
Bridgit Evans 26 Nov 2018
The women of Africa are our most valuable, untapped resource, the AWIEF 2018 conference heard...
Louise Marsland 9 Nov 2018
The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Africa 22 on Sloane has launched its 2019 Startup residency programme which aims to attract over 100 startups to join its startup campus in Bryanston...
Issued by GEN Africa 5 Nov 2018
The first place winners in this year's SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards took home more than R1m each for their innovations...
16 Oct 2018
19 Sep 2018
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, George Wyngaardt shares how his wife, Jade Wyngaardt started a digital marketing agency while fighting stage 3 breast cancer...
George Wyngaardt 18 Sep 2018
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded a total of R660,000 to ten startups...
Tom Jackson 13 Aug 2018
The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UCT GSB has awarded a total of R660,000 ($50,000) to 10 startups via two different grant funding mechanisms...
Tom Jackson 10 Aug 2018
I Love Coffee, a Cape-based social enterprise that trains and employs deaf baristas to work as frontline staff in its stores, plans to open as many as five new outlets over the next twelve months...
19 Jul 2018
The SAB Foundation has pledged R1.5 million ($119,000) to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UCT GSB, which will be invested in student-run social innovations...
Tom Jackson 31 May 2018
Total prize money of up to R10m is up for grabs in the eighth annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and third annual Disability Empowerment Awards...
19 Mar 2018
Dr William Mapham, an ophthalmologist hailing from the Eastern Cape, who conceived the Vula app, whilst working at the Vula Emehlo Eye Clinic in rural Swaziland and experiencing first-hand the difficulties faced by rural health workers in need of specialist advice, spoke on Day 2 of Design Indaba and received a standing ovation...
Sue Disler 22 Feb 2018
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14 Dec 2017
The SAB Foundation Tholoana Programme is open for application, with space for 60 entrepreneurs in the 2018 intake...
3 Nov 2017
The 2017 SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards winners were announced in Johannesburg recently. Over R9m in prize money was distributed among the 24 small businesses...
25 Oct 2017
The 24 finalists in this year's SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and Disability Empowerment Awards have been announced. The winners will be revealed at an official awards ceremony on Monday, 23 October...
2 Oct 2017
South African startup Last Mile for BoP is rolling out a mobile application that enables informal traders to compare bulk prices and order stock from their phone...
Tom Jackson 24 Jul 2017
The SAB Foundation has contributed R2,100,000 to Hub Employment Ecosystems for People with Disabilities (HeePD) as part of its partnership...
20 Jul 2017
Local innovators and social entrepreneurs that are solving social problems facing disadvantaged South Africans may now enter the SAB Foundation's seventh annual Social Innovation and second annual Disability Empowerment Awards...
10 May 2017
South African entrepreneurs have overcome slow GDP growth rate and Big Business competition to produce some of the most successful enterprises on the continent...
16 Mar 2017
The Shap'Left Medstores project is linked to a long-term business model that turns donor funds received into a sustainable self-owned business for individuals in their community creating employment and access to basic healthcare...
Issued by Cipla 15 Mar 2017
UCT Upstarts 2016 Idea Auction saw eight innovative student startups raise just over R1 million in cash and in-kind support at the live crowd-bidding event...
14 Mar 2017
The annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and inaugural Disability Empowerment Awards 2016 were held in Sandton, late last week...
1 Nov 2016
Louise Williamson, who hails from Nelspruit, won R50,000 after presenting her Mashesha stove to judges at the Ventureburn Pitching Den during the recent Innovation Summit that took place in Ekurhuleni...
11 Oct 2016
Startup World Cup is partnering with SA Innovation Summit in its Ventureburn Pitching Den to host its first ever South African regional competition...
10 Aug 2016
The SA Innovation Summit gives inventors, innovators and established companies the opportunity to enter their prototype or product into the Inventors Garage and/or SA Innovation Legends Pitching Den competitions...
28 Jun 2016
This year, the SA Innovation Summit is again giving inventors, innovators and established companies the opportunity to enter their prototype or product...
24 Jun 2016
Applications for the 2016 SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Development Programme close on 31 March 2016...
7 Mar 2016
His desire to protect the animals in his care, and a gift for storytelling, inevitably led to Andries realising his full potential as the co-founder of Nghelekele Tours & Safaris...
Liesl Jobson 3 Feb 2016
This emerging entrepreneur recently received his biggest business deal ever with 5,000 chicks on order for Christmas. He aims to move from supplying informal traders to...
Liesl Jobson 19 Jan 2016
We've compiled a #BestofBiz 2015 list for all our industries, from articles with the most views, the most-read contributors to the press offices with the most hits.
15 Dec 2015
The opening ceremony for the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015 in SA will take place on Monday, 16 November, at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Illovo Sandton with over 350 delegates expected to attend. This year, the GEW has over 29 local partners with 96 activities taking place...
Issued by Global Entrepreneurship Network South Africa 6 Nov 2015
UCT Upstarts is igniting a 'Student Start-up Nation' by helping student-led startups launch their socially impactful ideas...
Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 15 Oct 2015
The SAB Foundation has announced the 14 finalists of its annual Social Innovation Awards 2015. The final winners will be announced at an official awards ceremony on Thursday, 15 October 2015...
17 Sep 2015
Entrepreneurs and innovators with innovative, pro-poor products and services are invited to enter for the SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2015 which carries a first prize of R1m...
11 May 2015
Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world's largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who bring ideas to life, help drive economic growth and improve human welfare...
Issued by SEA Africa 5 Nov 2014
The R1-million winner of the third Annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards held in Sandton late last week is 'Vula' Eye Health Mobile Phone App.
5 Nov 2013
The SAB Foundation has announced the finalists of its 3rd Annual Social Innovation Awards 2013. A total of 26 finalists will vie for the R1-million first place prize, which will be used to grow and commercialise their product or service.
18 Sep 2013
Paperight, a South African start-up has won the Digital Minds Innovation Award at the 2013 Digital Minds Conference in London. The showcase was held on Monday night, 15 April, as a precursor event to the London Book Fair.
16 Apr 2013
Entries to the 2013 SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards are now open to entrepreneurs and businesses that offer sustainable socially innovative products and processes and close at noon on Tuesday 7 May 2013. These products and processes should directly address the challenges faced by low-income women, youth, people living with disabilities and people living in rural areas.
7 Mar 2013
The second annual Innovation Awards, organised by the SAB Foundation, has announced the 25 finalists for 2012. These go through to the gala dinner on 1 November 2012, where the winner will receive a grant of R1 million and two runner-up grants of R500,000 each.
12 Oct 2012
The SAB Foundation Innovation Awards, launched in 2011 to ignite a culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa, is calling for 2012 entries. The closing date for entries is Friday 20 July 2012.
10 Jul 2012
A portable voice-based computer for the blind, developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been shortlisted in the South African Breweries (SAB) Foundation inaugural Innovation Awards.
Wilma den Hartigh 30 Jan 2012
The South African Breweries' (SAB) broad-based black economic empowerment partners are reaping the benefits of the Zenzele empowerment deal, with the interim dividend rising to R43.37 million for the six months ended September - a significant increase on the interim dividend declared in 2010.
Jacqueline Mackenzie 18 Nov 2011
The 2011 Innovation Summit will have participants literally thinking outside the building, as delegates stroll through Bedouin-style tents set among the trees and fountains of the IDC Convention Centre in Sandton. These will function both as an interactive exhibition space and as an ideas factory, fuelled by collaborative creativity.
23 Aug 2011