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 | EMILY STANDER We spoke to Ashley Lovell, head of consumer trade experience at Pernod Ricard, to find out more about the Phakamisa ispirit initiative... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Zinhle Zikalala is a young businesswoman, an entrepreneur at heart and the cofounder and director of Sibizi Media...read |
|  | | South African payments company Ozow is making waves in the fintech community...read |
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 | ISSUED BY MIWAY Bathu shoes, recently ranked number 10 of the Top 100 in Brand Africa's Most Admired African brands, is a phenomenal homegrown success story... Read |
| Business Plans |
 | Experts speculate that digital transformation, Covid-19 awareness, shifting supply chain trends, and operational optimisations, are among the key areas where SMEs can drive improvements... Read |
| Community |
 | Fetola has partnered with JP Morgan and the Embassy of Finland to launch a business accelerator that will support the growth of over 100 small and emerging businesses across South Africa... Read |
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| Covid-19 |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH A new variant, the B1.1.529, in South Africa, has been confirmed by the Department of Health.... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH South Africa will remain on Alert Level One, but the situation will be monitored weekly... Read |
| Funding |
 | Small businesses across the country are turning to non-interest bearing financing options in an effort to secure growth funding ahead of the festive season... Read |
 | ISSUED BY GORDON INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS SCIENCE What do jockeys and entrepreneurs have in common? Not much at the face of it, but there are clear parallels between piloting a horse and getting a business to fly... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | Media24's online panel, Forum24, recently conducted a survey to update findings on the effectiveness of pamphlets... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | The programme is Spar's response to the importance to pull emerging farmers into the formal economy and is a collaboration between small-scale farmers, Spar input suppliers and funders... Read |
 | The Craft and Design Institute (CDI) partnered with Aid To Artisans (ATA) to bring their e-Market Readiness Programme (eMRP) to South African creative businesses... Read |
 | Approximately 75% of South Africa's SMEs fail within the first five years. However, these companies contribute only 25% to GDP... Read |
| Social Entrepreneurship |
 | ISSUED BY XNEELO When starting a new business, it helps to learn from other entrepreneurs who've been there. In fact, 72% of e-commerce entrepreneurs say that other entrepreneurs have had the biggest impact on their business... Read |
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 | TANIA BROUGHTON Government argues the legal profession is not a rare or critical skill and that many South Africans struggle to get work... Read |
 | MARY CARMAN, BENJAMIN ROSMAN Concerns have emerged about the accountability of AI and related technologies like machine learning... Read |
 | JONATHAN DUNCAN Growing digitisation and the rollout of 4G and 5G infrastructures means data centres' volumes are set to grow significantly in the next five years... Read |
 | StarTimes Media has rolled out major expansion plans aimed at driving service delivery closer to subscribers across major counties in Kenya... Read |
 | YouTube has kicked off the second edition of Africa Creator Week - running from 29 November until 3 December 2021... Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG A growing percentage of Black Friday shoppers are less focused on brands and durable goods, and more focused on value and necessities... Read |
 | PAULA SARTINI Customer privacy is a term that we are all too familiar with, as regulations such as PoPIA and GDPR have come into effect to protect customer data... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Speaking at the 7th annual Water Stewardship Event, Yakeen Atwaru of the Department of Water and Sanitation shared some stark figures... Read |
 | Environmental activists are now calling for a public boycott of Shell petrol stations this December in order to "hit them where it hurts most"... Read |
 | Jack Dorsey tweeted his resignation letter as the CEO of Twitter on Monday, 29 November 2021... Read |
 | According to the Automobile Association, the petrol price will close in on R20 a litre in the runup to Christmas... Read |
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