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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE The National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) hosted the 2020 South African Small Business Awards virtually to announce the champions of entrepreneurship... read |
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 | | According to Bonga Xulu, Johannesburg's regional portfolio manager at TUHF, SMMEs have a crucial role to play in South Africa's economic recovery as the Covid-19 pandemic remains an ongoing concern...read |
|  | | Enygma Ventures has invested R9.2m in Black Mamba Foods, an Eswatini-based ethical producer of specialty food products...read |
|  | | Yebo Fresh, a Cape Town-based online retailer that delivers groceries to communities and organisations in the area, is gearing up for further expansion with Series A funding...read |
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 | ALLON RAIZ In the 20 years I have worked with entrepreneurs, there is a phenomenon I have seen all too often - the false start... Read |
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 | There's a famous saying by diversity and inclusion consultant Verna Myers: "Diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance, and belonging is dancing like no one's watching"... Read |
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 | AfricArena has announced the lineup of speakers for AfricArena Summit 2020 and AfricArena Air taking place on from 23-26 November 2020... Read |
 | Local female entrepreneurs will gather to network, learn from each other and urge the private sector as well as the government to do more to support the economic development of women... Read |
 | In an effort to ensure small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in South Africa survive the economic crisis, more than 50 large companies have formally committed to paying their SME suppliers in 30 days... Read |
 | The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation has called for greater collaboration between stakeholders in the South African entrepreneurship development ecosystem... Read |
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 | The Department of Small Business Development and Nedbank have called on informal fruit and vegetable traders who were negatively affected by the pandemic to apply for funding... Read |
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 | WeThinkCode_ is seeking small and medium company partners to join its SME Placement Programme, which places its students as interns in partner companies during their work placement period... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | Direct sellers earned a combined R2.4bn during the 2019 calendar year, revealed Rajesh Parshotam, chairperson of the Direct Selling Association... Read |
 | Chimera Creative is taking a fresh approach to gig work by rebranding as a social development enterprise to provide employment in the creative sector... Read |
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 | Many startups or early-stage small businesses think that all they need to become the next billion-dollar unicorn is to have an idea, and then sell it to one big corporate... Read |
| Research Reports |
 | A report has revealed the significant lifestyle impact and the financial damage brought by Covid-19 pandemic on the lives and experiences of workers in the gig economy in South Africa, India Indonesia, Brazil and the USA... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | ELODIE MAUME AND CANDICE MEYER The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) has announced that the temporary relaxation measures granted to companies during the national lockdown will lapse on 1 December 2020... Read |
 | CARRIE PETER Small businesses may become daunted by the apparent cost of POPI compliance. The real question is, can any business afford non-compliance? Read |
 | The pre-approved, turnover based funding is now available to Mr D Food restaurant partners and can be used for whatever the restaurant needs to run and possibly scale their business... Read |
 | QUENTYN TAYLOR It could be very easy as a small business to be thankful that your organisation is small enough not to warrant you being a target for cybercrime, and that would be a costly mistake... Read |
 | DR YUDHVIR SEETHARAM The Black Friday sales that have long been a part of the retail landscape in the United States and Canada have steadily gained popularity and traction in many other parts of the world, including South Africa... Read |
 | Bronwyn Williams, partner at Flux Trends, interviewed Vusi Mthimunye at the Alinea Marketing Master Class to find out about future retail trends... Read |
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 | NJ AYUK Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor Total, sank a wildcat well to a depth of 3,628 meters (11,903 feet) in Block 48... Read |
 | BHAVTIK VALLABHJEE Forward thinking investors and entrepreneurs in the African energy sector will deliver significant downstream benefits for the continent in the coming years... Read |
 | Africa is not getting the investment needed to help the world meet the United Nation's (UN's) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030... Read |
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 | The South African Loyalty Awards were developed specifically to celebrate loyalty excellence and innovation... Read |
 | EZRA PILLAY When developing a compliance function from inception, a compliance officer can have paralysis from analysis, especially when there has not been a pre-existing compliance function... Read |
 | Two out of the three global ratings agencies blamed the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects of lockdown on South Africa's economy for further downgrading the country's investment status... Read |
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