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 | "So few people have a vision for the future beyond what they don't want to happen. Very few are saying what could come next." Read |
 | PHILANI SANGWENI For years, we've been told that entrepreneurs are key to South Africa's economic growth and job creation... Read |
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| |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Every year, UCT's postgraduate management students who specialise in entrepreneurship are required to start a profitable business. Six students, who met through the course, founded Collars4Africa... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE digiToken is a new and convenient platform that enables consumers to buy airtime, electricity and water online - all from the comfort of your home by practising safe social distancing... Read |  | LAUREN HARTZENBERG UBU International aims to help local businesses boost their sales by leveraging a combination of mobile discovery, marketing, rewards and mobile payments... Read |  | KARIN DU CHENNE Locally sourced products and services comfort consumers, meeting their new needs for hygiene and spreading feel-good stories that celebrate the best of our diverse culture... Read |
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| |  | VISAGAN NAIDOO Our youth unemployment crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, but this is not news... Read |
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 | The Anzisha Prize has revealed its top 20 finalists for 2020. Winners will be announced at this year's Anzisha Prize Conference on the 27 October 2020... Read |
| Business Plans |
 | ROBIN FISHER During the early stages of the crisis, organisations had to prioritise their most mission-critical functions to stabilise and pivot. Digital transformation emerged as one of those high-priority areas... Read |
 | 2020 has seen more people speaking of "resilience" than ever before... Read |
| Community |
 | GLENN GILLIS If South Africa is to ever thrive, it needs to evolve and truly start to compete in the knowledge economy... Read |
 | The V&A Waterfront has taken the next step in making the Western Cape's first inclusive kitchen incubator a reality by calling for applications... Read |
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 | PHILLIPA GEARD, ISSUED BY RECRUITMYMOM The need for companies to be more agile in the way they operate is on the increase, and so is the upward trend of job-seekers contracting, micro-jobbing and gig working. Here's why.... Read |
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 | RYNO RIJNSBURGER For Africa to not just survive the current pandemic, but to thrive, investment into digital infrastructure is inevitable... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | ISSUED BY SAICA Transnet Pipelines and The Hope Factory saw the need to equip their current SMMEs on the Enterprise Development Programme for Entrepreneurs with Disability with the tools needed to go 100% virtual... Read |
 | Many businesses are reverting to pre-lockdown levels of activity, while others still are seeking new entrepreneurial avenues to supplement existing incomes or replace those lost due to the coronavirus crisis... Read |
| Starting Up |
 | ISSUED BY OLX Side hustling. It's what you're doing when the clock strikes five, and everyone else kicks off their work shoes, it's what you're doing when most people's days are over, and yours is just beginning, it's what you're doing when you're using your creative fix to stash some extra cash... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Dianna Games, chief executive of Africa @ Work shares some important things to consider when looking to do business in the African market... Read |
 | PATRICK BRANDFUL COBBINAH, ELLIS ADJEI ADAMS & MICHAEL ODEI ERDIAW-KWASIE Health crises are not new in Africa. The continent has grappled with infectious diseases on all levels, from local (such as malaria) to regional (Ebola) to global (Covid-19)... Read |
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 | The GoDaddy Global Entrepreneurship Survey, which looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the world's smallest businesses, has been released... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE The amount of women and children who go missing in South Africa is cause for national concern... Read |
 | MIA PAPANICOLAOU When we look back on 2020, we'll remember it as the year everything changed. Customer communication is no exception... Read |
 | From Zoom to Netflix, cyberattacks are getting clever about getting your attention... Read |
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