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 | | SmartWage, a South African startup, recently raised R6m to power the growth and expansion of its novel payday solution across South Africa... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Looking for the easiest way to get fast cash for your old phone or looking for a deal on a new phone, but not pay exorbitant prices? Flip Phone could be the answer...read |
|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE From music and culture to fashion and food, Samantha Joshua, CEO of S&S Culture, believes we are connected on so many levels. However, what's even more important is understanding what makes the consumer tick...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM This July #BizUnity Month will replace the former Mandela Month but, still, retain the same objectives - focusing on companies standing together for good! This is a prime opportunity for a sponsor to be seen to be standing up and together for SA business... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE A look at the future of young entrepreneurs in Africa... Read |
 | The operative provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 will come into force on 1 July 2020... Read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHOOL As South Africa gradually opens the economy, it may be a little too late for many business owners... Read |  | TERRENA RATHANLALL South Africa is into the third month of lockdown and many entrepreneurs still don't know if they will be able to reopen their businesses when the lockdown is over. However, this hasn't stopped them from opening their hearts and wallets to those in need. Read |  | Business for South Africa (B4SA), working with partners, is providing business in the informal sector with a set of easy to use Return to Work resources to help guide them... Read |
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| |  | BRONWYN WILLIAMS The global Covid-19 pandemic has upended life as we know it and will most certainly have deep and lasting effects on society, business, governance and the economy at large... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY REGENT BUSINESS SCHOOL Regent Business School, a member of the global Honoris United Universities network, has unveiled an entrepreneurial and enterprise development centre to fuel sustained economic recovery at a grassroots level... Read |
 | ISSUED BY PRIMEDIA BROADCASTING As Covid-19 regulations begin to ease, Nedbank and talk radio stations 702 and CapeTalk are ready to support small businesses and entrepreneurs through the return of the Nedbank Business Ignite campaign, with prizes worth over R1m... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Founded on the belief that South Africa is the gateway to Africa, Jean-Luc Pugin decided to launch Eikon-Design during the nationwide lockdown... Read |
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 | VINCE DE CASTRO There are still several weeks to go until we could possibly move to level 2. Until then, businesses need to stand out in order to survive. But how? Read |
| Community |
 | The Jobs Fund together with Black Umbrellas has shifted its focus to deliver inclusive support for SA startups through virtual and in-house support... Read |
 | The recent sale of 51% of Dynamic Talent to Dynamic Technologies has placed a spotlight on the importance of nurturing young and diverse female leaders and entrepreneurs in South Africa's promising and burgeoning technology industry... Read |
 | WorkInProgress (WIP), an Absa innovation lab, will be hosting a webinar series titled Wise-Up Wednesday Sessions starting Wednesday, 1 July 2020... Read |
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 | KASHIRA NAIDOO & ZACH GEORGE It's a well-known fact that the youth are the primary consumers of technology. A fact that puts Africa, with its literally hundreds of millions of young people, firmly on the map as a significant global launchpad for technology startups. Read |
 | While the South African furniture manufacturing sector has endured some tough times in recent years, there are still significant financial incentives for high-quality projects. Read |
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 | HAYDN TOWNSEND Globally, executives have woken up to the fact that we now find ourselves in an evolved marketplace where customer experience (CX) has emerged as the key driver of sustainable business growth... Read |
 | BONNIE RAMAILA As tributes poured out for Ntate Maponya (Dr Richard Maponya) a few months ago (pardon me I am going to call him Ntate Maponya, just out of respect!), I couldn't help to think of the legacy he has left, that of his name Maponya... Read |
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 | Connected Places Catapult invites South African organisations and UK SMEs to form partnerships to develop solutions to urban challenges in Cape Town, Johannesburg and eThekwini (Durban)... Read |
| Research Reports |
 | The Section 12J Association of South Africa has released a report outlining the details the impact which the Section 12J incentive has had on the SA economy... Read |
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 | Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says her department has formalised over 2,000 spaza shops during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
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 | OLUDAYO TADE Six years ago, a cashless policy became fully operational in Nigeria. The aim was to encourage electronic transactions with a view to reducing the amount of physical cash in the economy... Read |
 | YAP BOUM Ebola, a viral haemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates, has become endemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The country has had 10 outbreaks in 40 years and has recently declared the 11th... Read |
 | "Can you imagine explaining 5G or autonomy or the cloud to a mine boss from, even the, mid-twentieth century? Or even remote technologies that we're using now, pre-Covid-19 in some cases?" Read |
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 | HENK SA An important window of opportunity exists during the development of South Africa's Covid-19 recovery plans to drive a simultaneous transition to a sustainable, inclusive, resilient, just and resource-efficient society... Read |
 | DAVID SEINKER The oversized conventional corporate headquarters model was already being scrutinised due to its cost implications before the arrival of Covid-19... Read |
 | Mercia Jansen, area manager for Southern and Eastern Africa at Motul, talks challenges, achievements and of course, coping with the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
 | JARED DANIELS In much of the world, the LGBTQ+ community has made great strides toward 'equal' even though the odds have been against them... Read |
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