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Power: Ipeleng Mhlanga aims to make solar accessible to people
who would not be able to afford it. Photo: Supplied

Solar firm to tackle high electricity costs

As electricity tariffs continue to rise, squeezing household and small business budgets, a new solar company has entered the market with stokvel and crowdfunding models aimed at…

Esona Sekeleni

Athlete, 10, could miss out on championships in Portugal

The biathle, Esona Sekeleni, and her mother have turned to crowdfunding and selling raffle tickets to raise the necessary funds

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Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘We are focused on the local government elections,’ ANC tells employees after three months with no salary

The organisation has sent another letter to staff members saying that salaries for July, August and September will not be paid on 25 September

The ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters. (Gallo)

ANC secretaries called to Luthuli House to double-check the candidate list

Deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte ordered that they come to the party headquarters to ‘sit with the registration teams and go over their lists’

SA Express employees beat out 16 other interested parties to buy a stake in the troubled state-owned airline.

SA Express employees in R250m crowdfunding bid to buy their airline

Amid the overnight, worldwide crash of the air travel industry, a group of retrenched SA Express employees have an ambitious plan to raise R250-million in seed funding to buy the…

Semantics: The facade of UCT

Wanelisa Xaba on using crowdfunding to pay fees: ‘I got a lot of shaming from people’

Some students have turned to online crowdfunding to raise funds for their studies.

White tears: The most valuable currency

Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress.

Italian pupils launch crowdfunding campaign to buy island

A class of children in Italy is enlisting the help of their peers to buy the uninhabited island of Budelli so it remains ‘untouched and Italian’.

The AmbioLight

Kickstarter is not all good endings, sometimes it’s scams

After backing a successful Kickstarter project, but not seeing the product in development, Liron Segev believes he may have been the victim of a scam.

Joseph Kony

Could crowd funding be the answer to hunting down Joseph Kony?

Can you crowd fund the hunt for a war criminal on the run deep in Africa’s jungles?

Milking cash cows is hard work

Crowdfunding is a wake-up call for those who think you can put an idea out there, sit back and watch the money roll in.