The aftermath of the recent looting of foreign owned spaza shops in Soweto is an opportunity for working out ways in which foreign owned businesses can be integrated into the township economy. And this has to be done without creating Read the full story
South Africa urgently needs to create more job opportunities to address the worsening unemployment crisis. Commentators have warned that the country’s rising joblessness is a ticking time bomb, and it is a matter of time before it sparks countrywide social Read the full story
The Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) is challenging young people with feasible business ideas to approach it for funding. According to Sefa CEO, Thakhani Makhuvh, the organisation has only disbursed about R300 million of R1.7 billion which was set Read the full story
Advocates for privatisation of impotent State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) would certainly view the Treasury’s approval of a R6.5bn loan to South African Airways (SAA) as throwing money at a complex problem. The popular view has been that appallingly poor corporate Read the full story
South Africa’s Reserve Bank (SARB) is not too excited by the incredible drop in the global price of oil, which has raised expectations of a possible interest rate drop amongst borrowers. According to what SARB Governor, Lesetja Kyanyago, Read the full story
It is becoming agonisingly evident to entrepreneurs that there will be no guarantee of a consistent power supply from Eskom in the coming months, with, sadly, load shedding becoming the norm. But, inevitably, their businesses have to continue running, and Read the full story
As expected, the 2015 World Economic Forum, which is currently being held in Davos, has attracted the world’s attention. During an open discussion in which African countries were given a platform to voice their opinions, President Jacob Zuma called for Read the full story
While his peers’ businesses struggled and collapsed, never to be resurrected, Vuyisa Qabaka dusted himself and embarked on a long journey along a bumpy road, until he reached the Promised Land of entrepreneurial breakthrough. It is quite tempting to compare Read the full story
If South Africa is to fully utilise the benefits of being part of the developing world’s most powerful economic block, BRICS, It’s not politicians who should take the lead but ordinary entrepreneurs. Noticeably, it is driven by this thinking that Read the full story
Previously marginalised by the legacy of apartheid, notwithstanding challenges with limited pertinent skills, committed and focused black professionals are really going places. Seana Nkhahle, who has been appointed chairman of the Green Building Council of SA (GBCSA), personifies that. GBCSA Read the full story
