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 | JUANITA PIENAAR We talk to Black Coffee Films' Amanda Dlamini and David Leite about how their startup has tried to represent black directors in the country and consciously adding female and young directors to their roster... read |
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 | The Scheinberg Relief Fund has contributed R2m to the online grocery delivery startup to help it expand its distribution capacity and food relief efforts... Read |
 | Despite, or perhaps because of, the current crisis, CWDi has announced that the company will once again host the annual 67 Logos, but this year the initiative is a virtual one... Read |
 | As part of its partnership with Lionesses of Africa, the all-female business network in Africa, Volkswagen has introduced 'The Lionesses Den' and is calling on female-owned businesses in South Africa to share a two-minute pitch... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE It goes without saying that when we need to set a certain mood, music is definitely a key factor. It's even better when you find a playlist that's already been curated... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR CEO of Simulpass, Michael Kramer explains how he's working on resetting expectations for digital privacy through this new app... Read |
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 | Kudoti has been named as South Africa's winner of the AIM Virtual Startup Pitch Competition... Read |
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 | PAULO DE MATOS The role of procurement is about ensuring that business operations continue like clockwork no matter how disrupted the business environment is. This involves understanding the current environment... Read |
 | MOHAMMED AMIN As countries around the world start to think about what "work" looks like post the pandemic, we need to look at what this means for businesses... Read |
| Community |
 | A group of startups graduated from a 20-week Drone Start-Up Accelerator Programme, which aimed to equip the businesses with the tools and skills needed to drive the adoption of drone technology in SA... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR Ivan Botha and Donnalee Roberts chat to us about their new venture, Mind Your Own Biz, a live chat, showcasing local entrepreneurs on Instagram/IGTV... Read |
 | The results of the 2020 South African Digital Customer Experience (CX) Report reveals that brands need to adopt new strategies to engage, acquire and retain their customers... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | ISSUED BY HOT 91.9FM The first SME to get its share of R100m through the Get SA Working SME Growth Initiative is Gallant Business Solutions! Read |
| Social Entrepreneurship |
 | Design that incorporates empathy and compassion has been gaining momentum for a number of years, with the focus of design increasingly shifting towards solving social issues... Read |
 | Social investment fund manager Tshikululu has initiated a project to map the interventions of social investors throughout South Africa... Read |
| Starting Up |
 | Covid-19 has kick-started many of us into thinking about setting up our own businesses. Whether you've been retrenched, taken a salary cut, or have simply realised that life's short and it's time to reach for that long-postponed dream... Read |
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 | HAILAY GESESEW The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently noted that "researchers are working at break-neck speed" to understand SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease (Covid-19)... Read |
 | Drones are being successfully deployed to support medical and humanitarian projects across Africa, but for greater, more sustainable impact, they will need to be fully integrated into supply chains within an enabling regulatory environment... Read |
 | One of the most significant backbones of Ghana's economic and social development for a very long time has been small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs)... Read |
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 | JOHAN BOTES, TIISETSO RABOLAO AND KIRSTY GIBSON Even though we are starting to see light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, we still have a long way to go before life can return to a pre-Covid-19 type of normality, with many questioning if it will ever fully return. From a business point of view, we can draw insight from the CEOs of 2020's Fortune 500 list of companies... Read |
 | NASEEM JAVED Right now, the only positive frontiers around the world are small and large clusters of entrepreneurial communities humming and moving forward... Read |
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 | ROBYN BERGER, THEUNIS CLAASSEN AND CATHERINE ROBSON The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was brokered by the African Union (AU) and adopted by 44 of its 55 member states on 21 March 2018. By February 2019, all AU countries, save for Eritrea, had become signatories to the AfCFTA, which came into force on 30 May 2019... Read |
 | ANDREW ROBINSON We used to work in offices. For the past few months we've worked at home. Until fairly recently, those were really the only two options that most office workers had... Read |
 | GREG NOTT The weeks wear on under lockdown and Covid-19 cases are ramping up in South Africa. As we cling to semblances of life before the pandemic, I'm convinced that if we're going to come out victorious, it's going to be hope for the future that sees us through this especially difficult time in global history... Read |
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