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South Africa will enter a nationwide lockdown for 21-days with effect from midnight on Thursday 26 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa said... read
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The Covid-19 pandemic, which has been declared a National Disaster and has prompted a 21-day national shut down, is having catastrophic effects on businesses throughout South Africa and around the globe... read
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The Covid-19 Small Business Relief Centre has been launched by the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC)...read
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We need fast action to make thousands of small businesses throughout South Africa more resilient to coronavirus-related economic disruptions...read
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ALLON RAIZ
In this series of articles, Allon Raiz, CEO of Raizcorp, shares 20 of some of the most important lessons he has learned using a sequence that mirrors the typical stages of any entrepreneurial journey... Read
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Business Plans
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While there is a lot of uncertainty around the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, one thing that is certain is that it will change the way we do business in the long-term... Read
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If you're allowing your staff to work from home as a preventative measure against the coronavirus pandemic, make sure you're prepared... Read
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Community
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ISSUED BY I-FUNDI
Growing talent from within a company makes sense when considering how difficult it can be to find the right people with the right skills... Read
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ELMARIE GRANT
You have now been tasked with navigating a new world: working from home. This may sound great until you are suddenly faced with all forms of new and unexpected interruptions - all while doing your job and keeping your customer happy... Read
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#ImStaying NPC together with The Lions Den launched the #ImStaying Entrepreneur Movement... Read
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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GERHARD PAPENFUS
This may be the better of the two evils. It was always a toss between two very difficult decisions: either a 'partial lockdown' or a 'complete lockdown'... Read
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Social Entrepreneurship
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The Clothing Bank has for the past decade provided more than 3,000 women in South Africa with the opportunity to achieve financial independence through reselling clothes... Read
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Applications are now open for the Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF)... Read
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Starting Up
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ISSUED BY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHOOL
In this article, I focus on the realities of entrepreneurship, the natural business sequence since the dawn of time and we'll also take a look at the four-step process that Steve Jobs used to launch Apple... Read
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More than 600 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in 34 countries in Africa as of 19 March, compared with 147 cases one week ago... Read
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As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread around the world, the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have announced they will be donating medical supplies to Africa... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Retailers have attempted to quell fears surrounding stock shortages as footage of panic buyers and empty supermarket shelves filter through social media... Read
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Government has imposed regulations that will limit unjustified price hikes and product stockpiling, to protect consumers, as the number of Covid-19 pandemic cases rise to 150... Read
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JAMES LAPPEMAN
The way panic buying plays out in a country as economically unequal as South Africa accentuates the gap between the haves and have-nots... Read
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IAN RHEEDER
"South Africa's economy has seen better days. With the addition of the coronavirus outbreak, the current state-of-affairs is not looking promising. Exploiting this recession may be the only strategy for survival," says Ian Rheeder, chartered marketer and head of Markitects Consulting... Read
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Gift of The Givers is crowdfunding via the BackaBuddy platform in support of the medical staff and facilities on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic, who will be treating the affected... Read
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JAMES STENT & NATHAN GEFFEN
Testing people suspected of Covid-19 and then tracing who they have had contact with is vital to controlling the epidemic. But the test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is both expensive and logistically time-consuming... Read
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Brand South Africa has called on citizens to take action amid President Ramaphosa's declaration on Covid-19... Read
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