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To a tea: Retang Phaahla, winner of the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award

Rooted and rising: Retang Phaahla on winning the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman award

A tea visionary based in heritage, she brews boldness, legacy and innovation into every cup — and the future of African enterprise

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

Blockchain-based financial reporting has potential to empower SMMEs

It can eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming manual audits, creating verifiable financial histories automatically, with minimal cost.

Rooted: Sibongile Mtsabe is the amadumbe auntie. She has turned the vegetable into a successful business she hopes to expand. Photos: Lyse Comins

Entrepreneur’s sizzling amadumbe success uplifts women

A KwaZulu-Natal businesswoman has discovered a winning formula, making amadumbe crisps as well as cassava flour and porridge

There are several ways to advance progress for women in the labour market as entrepreneurs. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

How to unlock the untapped potential of SA’s women entrepreneurs

The journey to empowering women’s entrepreneurship will not be achieved by any one isolated approach

Unemployed men sit waiting for workThe present economic stagnation may partly be a result of a lack of diversification, which limits employment opportunities and overall workforce employability. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Entrepreneurs won’t create enough jobs without a rethink in how they are supported

A systems thinking approach is needed to help us understand why the playing fields are uneven, and how to even them up

(John McCann/M&G)

It’s critical to give Africa’s young people the skills to be entrepreneurial

It requires more than being technologically competent; the basics of establishing networks and pitching to investors can be taught but it takes time to do so

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Future Females launches a new platform for women entrepreneurs

The company is introducing a course that includes the basics of entrepreneurship and how to run a business.

Why some South African businesses are succeeding despite the odds

‘Economy agnostic entrepreneurs’ are experiencing revenue growth even as the economy shrinks — but they need better access to venture capital and international markets

Benefits of technology: The AirQo team at Makerere University in Uganda uses artificial intelligence and sensors to monitor air quality

Investing in Africa’s digital transformation

The continent could reap rewards through digitisation and adopting new technologies

Country duty: Entrepreneur Theo Baloyi worked for PwC before striking it out on his own and founding Bathu sneakers. As well as capitalising on his love for sneakers, he also started the brand to help to address unemployment in South Africa.

Q&A Sessions: ‘I am a product of opportunities’ — Theo Baloyi

Theo Baloyi, motivated by his love for sneakers and his goal of reducing unemployment, founded Bathu in 2015. He shares his transition from corporate employee to entrepreneur

Risk-taker: Bokang Masala, the owner of Bonema Tracker, says some years’ experience in the corporate world gave him the confidence to start his latest new venture. (James Puttick)

Bokang Mosala: ‘I am an entrepreneur at heart’

Businessman Bokang Mosala has, from a young age, chased financial independence. In high school, he sold sweets and at university he embarked on various business ventures that…

A social enterprise is a business with a conscience at its core. (Russell Scott, Tyrone Bradley/Red Bull Content Pool & Anglo American/AP)

So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

Do the research first; it will save money and time later

After a tour of the Eastern Cape

Where are Eastern Cape’s black entrepreneurs?

Proudly South African trip took journalists to companies creating jobs – but they’re white-owned

Institutions such as UCT that offer MBAs are increasingly focusing on soft skills, as managers have to maneuver in a rapidly-changing environment

Business learning’s real-world value

MBA holders continue to out-earn their peers; in addition, they foster innovation and shape society

We know that township entrepreneurs and township-based entrepreneurs struggle to get finance from traditional sources such as banks and government programmes. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Four ways to give township entrepreneurs a much-needed boost

If they are going to be the job creators that policymakers hope for, a major overhaul of mindsets and infrastructure will be necessary

There are initiatives that can be taken to help millennials overcome challenges. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Three ways the youth can act to make South Africa a better place

Given the challenges millennials face, these initiatives could go a long way in assuring them that a bright future is possible

Refilwe Lesufi, owner of Prana Consulting

Women entrepreneurs make it with WRC’s support

Refilwe Lesufi says there is an urgent need to create off-grid solutions in rural areas

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

A company of one and it’s run, run, run

When Simbongile Ndlangisa ditched her nine-to-five job to start her own PR business, she thought, great, now I can sit and watch series all day

‘When I transitioned my whole life opened up. It’s like you spend your entire life wearing this heavy armour.’

The sweet scent of trans success

Trans women battle to find jobs, but some do manage to escape being a sex worker

Guardian and protector: Edith Chikwana tells her story to Mosibudi Ratlebjane in this week’s Slice of Life.

Orphaned at 13, she has cared for her siblings her whole adult life

Edith Chikwana now sells goods on Jo’burg’s streets to feed and educate her brothers and sister.