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JESSICA HUBBARD
Many entrepreneurs and business owners live in fear of the South African Revenue Services (SARS)... read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Virtual Actuary is a team of experts offering a comprehensive range of actuarial services, founded on a depth of experience acquired locally and globally... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Finvex is a cloud-based platform that connects corporate clients, their growing SME suppliers and financial agents... Read
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Community
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Registration for the AlphaCode Explore programme is now open... Read
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Chivas Regal is calling on South Africa's brightest change-makers to enter The Chivas Venture 2020... Read
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The current economic climate in South Africa has meant that businesses are letting people go at a rapid rate and more business professionals are finding themselves out of a job... Read
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Nearly every tech giant today boasts an innovation lab of their own, where ideas blossom and new products are born... Read
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Funding
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SEAN SANDERS
Most investment proposals sent to VC don't even break through to the decision-making stage... Read
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Cape Town-based company Thursdays Lingerie and Swimwear has launched a crowdfunding campaign to assist the label to extend its size range to a G cup... Read
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The number of female entrepreneurs in South Africa is on the rise, with more than 60% of micro-enterprises and 40% of small enterprises in the country owned by women... Read
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Legal Regulations
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Employment Equity (EE) report submissions are now open and will run from 1 September 2019 to 15 January 2020. Failure to comply will see fines ranging from 2 - 10% of a company's turnover... Read
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Partnerships
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Partnership aimed at empowering 1000 entrepreneurs across Africa by 2022... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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GREG CHEN
It's a widely acknowledged truth that if South Africa is to escape the economic morass it finds itself in, it needs to provide as much support to SMEs as possible... Read
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The Eastern Cape Development Corporation recently concluded a two-week long trade promotion tour of Nigeria and China aimed at improving trade between the Eastern Cape and these two fast-growing economies... Read
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South Africa's National Development Plan (NDP) expresses an important aspiration: by 2030, 90% of all jobs should be created by small, medium and micro enterprises... Read
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Starting Up
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RUSSELL JARVIS
From Zando in fashion to Faithful to Nature in natural foods, there are a bunch of local affiliate programmes with appealing prospects for budding entrepreneurs. Low start-up costs and an increasingly connected world are as good reasons as any to investigate the potential of affiliate marketing to build a viable income... Read
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JENNY RETIEF
Businesses founded by partners have a better chance of succeeding than new ventures where everything is dependent on one person... Read
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AARON THORNTON
With so much economic doom and gloom dominating local news headlines, business owners can be forgiven for feeling just a tad discouraged... Read
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ALAN HOCKEY
Hopefully I caught your attention with a promise to get your product to market without failing. I have possibly, erroneously I might add, have made the whole process seem very simple, where it is actually quite complex... Read
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ELVIRA BOLAT AND NASIRU TAURA
Digital technology has created new opportunities for businesses in sub-Saharan Africa to compete on a more equal footing, but obstacles remain... Read
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African startups Shopit, Exportunity and Wakulima from South Africa, Benin and Tanzania respectively, emerged the winners of the Nestlé Research and Development sub-Saharan innovation challenge... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The opening keynote of Gartner Symposium 2019 was a comprehensive session on 'winning in the turns' through leadership in a digital society. See key outtakes from Gartner senior vice president Valentin Sribar on reaching 'techquilibrium' below... Read
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CHARLES BRASTED
As the United Kingdom's constitution continues to be tested, the Brexit fundamentals remain unchanged... Read
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CHRIS DE BRUYN
Toy Story 2 almost didn't happen. Somewhere during the 3D animated movie's production, an administrator accidentally destroyed all of the movie's data assets... Read
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Minister of the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Clayton Naidoo, general manager for Sub-Saharan Africa at Cisco, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining key areas of cooperation for South Africa's digital future... Read
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Gender-based violence and domestic abuse have forced their way into work, school, family and community conversations over the past few weeks... Read
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DAVID J. HARDISTY, KATHERINE WHITE AND RISHAD HABIB
Most people want to be sustainable, but have a hard time taking the necessary actions... Read
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Vision2030 Summit - 29 Oct 2019 to 30 Oct 2019, Johannesburg The Vision2030 Summit is a two-day knowledge-sharing event for industry leaders to network, engage and form partnerships to overcome delivery challenges for South Africa's NDP. Read more >> |
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