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Top 5 Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs You Should Be Learning From

Kotas
Lifestyle

‘R580k from selling kotas’: Entrepreneur sets tongues wagging

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Business

How to start your own business

Entrepreneurs
Business

Top 5 Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs You Should Be Learning From

Kotas
Lifestyle

‘R580k from selling kotas’: Entrepreneur sets tongues wagging

business
Business

How to start your own business

construction
Start-up Africa

Lesedi Ledwaba takes construction business to new heights

By GCIS Vuk’uzenzele07-08-2022 13:57

Lesedi Ledwaba (33) grasped the business ideologies of the construction business through her fathers guidance.

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Lifestyle

Desperate dad uses last R800 to start successful sandwich business

By Marilynn Manuel17-07-2022 20:56

‘When I get tired, I think to myself that I am not where I want to be yet, and I keep pushing,’ says sandwich business owner Itumeleng.

Business
Start-up Africa

Keeping business afloat

By GCIS Vuk’uzenzele23-06-2022 11:09

Siyabonga Kheswa (29) the founder of Thokoza Adventure Tours urges people to not give up on their dreams of owning businesses.

Fuel
Start-up Africa

Lamo Fuel founder is powered by passion

By GCIS Vuk’uzenzele22-06-2022 08:55

Lamo Fuel is a commercial bio-energy products manufacturer which produces biodiesel, bio oil, charcoal and biogas.

Art
My Business

Turn your artistic idea into a business

By GCIS Vuk’uzenzele27-05-2022 16:06

young artists across the country are invited to register for an opportunity that could turn their artistic ideas into a profitable business. 

The Cannabis Expo
Lifestyle

It’s high time: The Cannabis Expo returns to Cape Town

By Nokuthula Ngcobo12-03-2022 18:37

Now that people can ‘zol’ again, The Cannabis Expo is returning to Cape Town to educate about this growing industry.

Avi Lasarow
Business & Finance

Avi Lasarow: Leader of Prenetics in Europe, Middle East and Africa

By Pauline Torongo28-02-2022 12:38

Avi Lasarow is an atypical entrepreneur dedicated to his home country of South Africa, and now to his adopted home in the UK.

Lalela Mswane
Fashion and Beauty

Calling all entrepreneurs: Miss SA Lalela Mswane wants to help you grow!

By Marilynn Manuel25-02-2022 10:54

Lalela just launched an initiative called #BeReady where she and other professionals offer their expertise to help budding SA entrepreneurs.

DA eThekwini Mayor
News

Durban Business Fair to promote local entrepreneurs, goods

By Lyse Comins08-12-2021 22:30

The Durban Business
Fair themed ‘buy local and support local’ will give small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods and services.

Mind your own business
Books

Book Review: Nevi Letcher unlocks 12 career secrets in ‘Mind your Own Business’

By Dirnise Britz21-06-2021 15:27

Contemplating starting your own business? Gear up yourself for success with the ultimate business handbook, “Mind your Own Business”.

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Food & Wine

Sourdough success: London woman turns lockdown loaves into bakery

By AFP21-03-2021 17:15

It all started when Sophia Sutton-Jones, whose father was also a baker, made a loaf of bread for a neighbour during the first national UK lockdownin March 2020.

Tune in for free webinar about
Careers

Tune in for free webinar about youth entrepreneurship

By Gillian McAinsh23-02-2021 16:44

With more than two in five young South Africans jobless, Nelson Mandela University is presenting a free youth entrepreneurship webinar.

Kenyan woman entrepreneur turn
Africa News

Kenyan woman entrepreneur turns plastic into bricks ‘seven times stronger than concrete’ (Watch)

By Riyaz Patel13-02-2021 13:00

Nzambi Matee, 29, and her team recycle plastic bottle tops, bags, and cooking oil containers into bricks.

From the street to being the b
Careers

From the street to being the boss: Former street kid sets up own panel beating shop

By Riyaz Patel23-12-2020 15:31

The former street kid turned entrepreneur also paid tribute to the shelter who ‘groomed’ him.

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Lifestyle

We’re the boss: Five influencers who’ve branched out to entrepreneurship

By Nontando Mhlongo17-09-2020 10:48

Be inspired by these five savvy South African women who’ve moved from being the face of a brand to building their own business.

Sewing
Business & Finance

Granny entrepreneur ‘sewing ahead’ of the COVID curve

By Rebekah Funk05-08-2020 15:02

The COVID crisis has taught South African businesses several hard lessons, among them that global supply chains can break overnight and have a crippling domino effect.

modular home
Business & Finance

Modular solution: Bay entrepreneur finds opportunity in pandemic crisis

By Rebekah Funk28-07-2020 15:58

If necessity is the mother of invention, then COVID-19 has been the father of re-invention for agile entrepreneurs like Jason Campbell, co-owner of Port Elizabeth-based 4Ways Engineering.

SADC Fuels Nkosinathi Machine
Business & Finance

Micro-entrepreneur challenges petrol industry’s status quo

By Rebekah Funk13-07-2020 16:24

In our second instalment on micro-entrepreneurs, meet the 28-year-old millennial planning to make fuel stations mobile

Thokozani Potgieter
Business & Finance

Entrepreneur with a clear view for opportunity during times of crisis

By Rebekah Funk07-07-2020 18:14

From losing all his start-up capital to a scam to the COVID-19 pandemic, one KwaZulu-Natal entrepreneur has plenty experience weathering life’s ups and downs. He shares his story, and insights.

entrepreneurial
Business & Finance

Passion and perseverance – the entrepreneurial journey

By Louw Barnardt13-01-2020 09:26

(Partner content) Seven key learnings from having worked with more than 300 scaling companies in a stagnant economy.

business
Business & Finance

Why cloud technology is the perfect starting point for growing South African entrepreneurs

By Louw Barnardt19-11-2019 04:00

(Partner content) Let’s face it – no one goes into business to do finance. Or to run payroll. Or to manage inventory. Or any one of a great score of administrative and operational tasks that come with running a business.

WCIT 2019
Technology

Alexis Ohanian announces launch of new Pan-Armenian digital platform at WCIT [video]

By Cheryl Kahla14-10-2019 15:32

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced the launch of “Pan- Armenian digital platform” named HighConnect at the WCIT 2019 in Armenia.

Avon Justine. Image: Facebook.com/justine avon
Lifestyle

Avon Justine launches new app for beauty entrepreneurs

By Buhle Lindwa19-09-2019 18:15

Beauty entrepreneurs can place orders, secure deliveries and access social media feeds on the Avon On Application.

SA Innovation Summit 2019
Technology

SA Innovation Summit: From Africa to the world

By Cheryl Kahla11-09-2019 18:07

The annual SA Innovation Summit is here “to take Africa to the World.” The event will take place from 11 to 13 September at the Cape Town Stadium.

Tito Mboweni
News

Mboweni outlines need to rollout Broadband access to more South Africans

By SAnews06-09-2019 10:12

South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has championed access to broadband internet as imperative to developmental growth.

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