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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Nizenande Machi, affectionately known as Niz, is a bundle of energy with a spark for life. She's opinionated and sassy, and hell bent on changing negative opinions on SA youth and uplifting South Africa's youth culture...read |
|  | SINDY PETERS Wendy Nwankwo is the founder of The Living Collective, a full-service self-catering accommodation rental company with properties in KwaZulu-Natal...read |
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 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM We called and you responded, and there's still time to come on board to sponsor #YouthMatters - the exclusive editorial interview series, profiling promising young South Africans on Biz this June... Read |
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| Africa Month |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG During the PayFast eCommerce Virtual Summit, investor and serial entrepreneur Marek Zmyslowski urged African businesses to employ a more level-headed approach to mapping online growth... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG ZX Ventures is a global innovation division within brewing giant AB InBev with a mandate to nurture, support and grow the products of the future... Read |
 | Adam Molai, African industrialist celebrates Africa Day with a video to "inspire and motivate" entrepreneurship as the pandemic drags on... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | AKHONA MATSHOBA & SHAFIEK TASSIEM Hope and excitement gripped the Munsieville care home in the South African mining city of Krugersdorp on Monday, when people over the age of 60 were called to receive the Covid-19 vaccine for the first time... Read |
| Funding |
 | NQOBILE DLUDLA Tiger Brands will launch a venture capital fund to invest in food and beverage startups, with an initial allocation of less than R100m... Read |
 | EThekwini Tourism Investment Symposium, which takes place in July, will provide tourism projects receive much-needed funding and support by matching them with potential investors and supportive stakeholders... Read |
 | Enygma Ventures has announced a strategic investment into the development of the African startup ecosystem by investing R2.1m in the South African company, Startup Circles... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE South Africa's marketing landscape has an innovative new player... Introducing Wonder, a new customer experience agency born in the 'new normal'... Read |
 | AYLA SOLOMON Fact: Highly engaged customers spend 300% more than the average shopper, account for 90% more frequent purchases, and are five times more likely to choose the same brand for a future purchase... Read |
 | In honour of Nelson Mandela Day, the annual 67 Logos Designathon is set to take place again this year, this time hosted by Over The Rainbow... Read |
 | The three-day Pitcher Awards Festival 2021 culminated on 22 May with the Pitcher Awards which was streamed at the Pitcher Festival website and broadcast on television networks of TVC Entertainment and TVC News... Read |
| Partnerships |
 | ANTON GRÜTZMACHER Business-to-business partnerships involves partnering with other brands and companies to achieve various objectives. It ranges from growth through co-selling and promoting to creating entire new revenue streams... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG During the PayFast eCommerce Virtual Summit held this week, Jonathan Smit said that for businesses seeking growth, "online is where it's at"... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Mother and son, Karen and Ryan Jossel, make up the formidable team behind local baked treats business Bags of Bites... Read |
 | Cava Sneakers is a fashionable footwear range launched by husband and wife Lebogang and Naledi Mokubela during South Africa's hard lockdown... Read |
 | It has been a year since the Covid-19 pandemic first visited humanity. Its effects have been felt across the world from New Delhi to New York and right back to our own backyard... Read |
 | With the franchising sector contributing close to 13.9% to the country's GDP and employing close to a million people, according to a FASA 2019 survey, at its heart, franchising is all about the spirit of entrepreneurship... Read |
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| Social Entrepreneurship |
 | Africa's underinvested youth are in need of urgent attention and youth entrepreneurship investment banks must become the focus of global support... Read |
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 | EMMANUEL MOGAJI In developing economies, many people are excluded in various ways from financial services.Including them is necessary for three main reasons... Read |
 | ELSABÉ BRITS Death rates among adults in the 30 days after being admitted to critical care with suspected or confirmed Covid-19 was considerably higher (48%) in 10 African countries, compared to the global average of 31.5%... Read |
 | PRATIMA DESAI Commodity trader and miner Glencore plans to restart operations at Mutanda - the world's biggest cobalt mine that also produces large amounts of copper - in the Democratic Republic of Congo next year... Read |
 | The goal was to create a commercial iteration of the beverage to be bottled and made available in Southern Africa, where it's previously only been consumed at family gatherings of Africa's diaspora... Read |
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 | BRETT VAN ASWEGEN South Africa has a well-developed formal financial sector, however the country also has a population that ranks high in terms of indebtedness... Read |
 | OLIVIA KUMWENDA-MTAMBO & TANISHA HEIBERG South Africa's rand firmed on Thursday after the central bank kept lending rates unchanged, but said it would not hesitate to tighten policy to contain rising prices... Read |
 | MIKE MULLER After good summer rains, the dams that supply water to Johannesburg and much of South Africa's economic heartland are full... Read |
 | The Top 50 most valuable South African brands were initially forecasted to lose over R65bn in cumulative brand value (15%) during the pandemic. However, resolve and resilience have meant the Top 50 have only recorded a 2% (R8.8bn) decrease in cumulative brand value... Read |
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