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Small businesses can help South Africa fight unemployment if they get proper support – study

Entrepreneurship

Small businesses can help South Africa fight unemployment if they get proper support – study

Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng, Shepherd Dhliwayo 22 May 2024

Source: Supplied. Nils Rode, chief investment officer, private Aassets, at Schroders.

Finance

Private markets outlook – it’s time for optimism

Nils Rode 13 Feb 2024

Food security: The battle of narratives and the role of private sector investment

Agriculture

Food security: The battle of narratives and the role of private sector investment

6 Nov 2023

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Finance

Is Mauritian banking transforming sub-Saharan Africa's economic landscape internationally?

Thavin Audit 4 Oct 2023

Source: Twitter/@BlockchainZA

Finance

#AfricaMonth: Why Web3 needs Africa and what you can do about it?

Katja Hamilton 15 May 2023

New R88m SAB Foundation fund to fuel small business growth in SA

Entrepreneurship

New R88m SAB Foundation fund to fuel small business growth in SA

18 Apr 2023

Responsible lending as a step up for SMEs

Entrepreneurship

Responsible lending as a step up for SMEs

Issued by Business Partners Limited 13 Jan 2023

Innovative double-storey housing project for Khayelitsha

Property

Innovative double-storey housing project for Khayelitsha

Marecia Damons 21 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied. Heather Lowe, head of SME development at FNB.

Finance

FNB injects R200m into SME development

8 Nov 2022

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Finance

8th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit: promoting digital innovation within the African fiscal sector

3 Jun 2022

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Finance

The award winners for Best Application of Agent-based Simulation in Islamic Finance

1 Feb 2022

Source: Mondi. Minister of finance, Enoch Godongwana

Finance

Finance Ministry appoints three women to key positions

10 Dec 2021

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Finance

Banking: a human experience

1 Oct 2021

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Agriculture

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Philip Tetteh Quarshie and Evan Fraser 27 Sep 2021

#WomensMonth: Yaliwe Soko, chair of the United Africa Blockchain Association

ICT

#WomensMonth: Yaliwe Soko, chair of the United Africa Blockchain Association

Imran Salie 20 Aug 2021

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Finance

Bank branches will be dead in 5 years

29 Jun 2021

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Finance

Nigeria is making progress with financial inclusion: here's how

Emmanuel Mogaji 20 May 2021

Premal Ranchod, head of ESG research at Alexander Forbes Investments

Finance

South African green economic recovery blueprint

19 Oct 2020

Thuli Madonsela and Vusi Thembekwayo to join UCT GSB annual Alumni Reunion Weekend

Education

Thuli Madonsela and Vusi Thembekwayo to join UCT GSB annual Alumni Reunion Weekend

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 19 Oct 2020

Small businesses are critical to SA's economy post Covid-19

Entrepreneurship

Small businesses are critical to SA's economy post Covid-19

Deon Mbaile 25 May 2020

Diversifying approaches to conserving nature

Tourism & Travel

Diversifying approaches to conserving nature

Mucha Mkono, Jason I. Ransom, Katarzyna Nowak and Patrick O. Onyango 7 Jan 2020

Getting women in the driver's seat of Africa's agribusiness revolution

Agriculture

Getting women in the driver's seat of Africa's agribusiness revolution

Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya 25 Nov 2019

Social grants provide an important cushion amid poverty in South Africa. shutterstock

ESG & Sustainability

What some entrepreneurial welfare beneficiaries do to improve their lives

12 Sep 2019

Police officers are seen in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Lagos police recently arrested publisher Agba Jalingo, who has been charged by federal authorities with treason. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Marketing & Media

Nigerian publisher charged with treason

9 Sep 2019

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Marketing & Media

Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo detained without charge

4 Sep 2019

‘It’ll never catch on!’ NIKS ADS

Finance

Libra: Facebook's cryptocurrency will not help the billions of people currently excluded from banks

Kamini Gupta 1 Jul 2019

$250m World Bank loan to boost access to affordable housing in Kenya

Property

$250m World Bank loan to boost access to affordable housing in Kenya

6 May 2019

Scaling e-commerce in Africa

Retail

Scaling e-commerce in Africa

Dean McCoubrey 13 Feb 2019

A motorcyclist has his vehicle loaded with hands of matoke - ©Panos

Agriculture

Q&A: Transforming agriculture with tech scale-up

Baraka Rateng' 8 Jan 2019

Ahmed Banderker, chief executive of Sanlam Business Development

Finance

#BizTrends2019: The rise of insurtech

7 Jan 2019

Transforming the African agribusiness sector: Tech, transparency hold key to inclusive growth

Agriculture

Transforming the African agribusiness sector: Tech, transparency hold key to inclusive growth

Frédéric Massé 4 Dec 2018

Habitat for Humanity addresses Africa's unique housing challenges at local leadership conference

Property

Habitat for Humanity addresses Africa's unique housing challenges at local leadership conference

25 Oct 2018

Sunil Kaushal, CEO, Africa & Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank

Finance

Africa rewrites the rules in the banking industry

Sunil Kaushal 17 Oct 2018

SAB Foundation awards SA's most promising social innovators with R12.5m

ESG & Sustainability

SAB Foundation awards SA's most promising social innovators with R12.5m

16 Oct 2018

Hans Zachar, managing director: technology strategy, Accenture Africa.

Marketing & Media

How African enterprises chart growth in the digital age

Hans Zachar 9 Oct 2018

Why Tanzanian women entrepreneurs don't apply for formal loans

Entrepreneurship

Why Tanzanian women entrepreneurs don't apply for formal loans

Vanessa Naegels 4 Sep 2018

Zimbabwe's YouFarm helps farmers raise funding

Agriculture

Zimbabwe's YouFarm helps farmers raise funding

Tom Jackson 5 Jul 2018

Helping smallholders participate in the rise of agribusiness in Africa

Agriculture

Helping smallholders participate in the rise of agribusiness in Africa

4 Jun 2018

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Finance

Does microfinance really alleviate poverty? The 34-billion-dollar question

Frithjof Arp 29 May 2018

Why microfinance as aid isn't enough to empower women

ESG & Sustainability

Why microfinance as aid isn't enough to empower women

Sara Niner 24 May 2018

Housing microfinance can be win-win for poor people and financial institutions

Property

Housing microfinance can be win-win for poor people and financial institutions

13 Apr 2018

Finance

WEF Africa's inclusive economic growth target achievable with three-dimensional investing

Issued by Edge Growth 24 May 2017

Oradian co-founder Julian Oehrlein on stage at the European FinTech event in Brussels accepting the award for Europe's Most Innovative Banking Software.

ICT

The missing links in the digital ecosystem in Africa

8 Feb 2018

Women's NGOs are changing the world - and not getting credit for it

ESG & Sustainability

Women's NGOs are changing the world - and not getting credit for it

Dr Bipasha Baruah and Dr Kate Grantham 6 Dec 2017

EthioChicken produces highly fertile, disease-resistant chickens and sells them to farmers at affordable prices. (Image: WikiCommons)

Agriculture

#AgriIndaba: Acumen and instinct in African agribusiness

13 Nov 2017

Marketing & Media

#AfricaCom: M-Pesa sees partnerships as the road to growth

Nicci Botha 8 Nov 2017

#MeetTheInvestor: Duncan Goldie-Scot

ICT

#MeetTheInvestor: Duncan Goldie-Scot

Tom Jackson 17 Oct 2017