Meat Naturally and Agricool Finance were awarded joint first place in the 10th Annual Social Innovation Awards, while Leafline Washable Sanitary Wear scooped first place in the Disability Empowerment Awards...
17 finalists will walk away with awards and grants up to the value of R1.3m. A total of R12.6m will be awarded...
As consumers become more socially conscious, businesses around the world have increasingly taken up the call to address social issues...
Bridgit Evans 22 Oct 2020
LUMA and Praekelt.com have co-created a chatbot that makes legal help available and accessible to all South Africans...
Issued by Praekelt 19 Oct 2020
The SAB Foundation is calling for entrepreneurs to apply to their annual Tholoana Enterprise Programme which aims to give entrepreneurs invaluable help and support...
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the tourism industry has been brought to a standstill leaving this entrepreneur with limited options.
Evan-Lee Courie 6 Aug 2020
Vollar, an online platform that allows organisations to incentivise and reward members of a community for doing volunteer work to help others in their area. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the team then had to go back to the drawing board...
Evan-Lee Courie 30 Jul 2020
Melun Jeptha noticed two empty plots of land that were being used as dumping grounds and decided to do something about it...
Evan-Lee Courie 27 Jul 2020
The Jobs Fund Fund, in partnership with Atlantic Black (Pty) Ltd, has leveraged more than R 800m for job creation and broader inclusion of previously disadvantaged individuals in South Africa's agricultural sector...
Applications for the 10th annual SAB Foundation's Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards will open on 24 February 2020...
With the arrival of a new decade, there is renewed hope for a prosperous South Africa with jobs and opportunities a-plenty. And, with the right support, local small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMEs) could help the country out of its rut and breathe a little life back into the economy...
Cracked mobile phones, leaking batteries, broken kitchen appliances, obsolete televisions...the twisted cords of toxic electronic waste are strangling South Africans. Seeing the danger, a North West entrepreneur has taken matters into his own hands...
Rebekah Funk 11 Dec 2019
SAB KickStart, the Urban Agriculture programme has announced nine finalists who will receive training and investment to grow their farming businesses...
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 first place winners in this year's SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards took home more than R1m each for their innovations...
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...
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...
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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The SAB Foundation Tholoana Programme is open for application, with space for 60 entrepreneurs in the 2018 intake...
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...
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...
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...
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...
South African entrepreneurs have overcome slow GDP growth rate and Big Business competition to produce some of the most successful enterprises on the continent...
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...
The annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards and inaugural Disability Empowerment Awards 2016 were held in Sandton, late last week...
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...
Startup World Cup is partnering with SA Innovation Summit in its Ventureburn Pitching Den to host its first ever South African regional competition...
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...
This year, the SA Innovation Summit is again giving inventors, innovators and established companies the opportunity to enter their prototype or product...
Applications for the 2016 SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Development Programme close on 31 March 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.
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