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UP’s TuksNovation launches Blue Ocean business strategy initiative

Community & Impact /

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) high-tech entrepreneurship incubator, TuksNovation, recently launched theBlue Ocean Corners Initiative along with several other stakeholders, including the Technology InnovationAgency. Led by the French Embassy, the initiative provides training to key South African incubators in Blue Oceanstrategy, which refers to a market where there is little to no competition. With the […]

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Mondelez International Forging a Path to Transformation

ESD initiatives, Small Business Development & ESD /

Through its Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) programme, Mondelēz has recently taken up the challenge to empower Black-owned small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) through skills development and preferential procurement. “For a period ranging from 2019 until recently, our ESD programme supported a number of businesses in the Sales, Marketing, Catering and Transport industries –

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FROM CASH TO DIGITAL MONEY FOR SA’S RECYCLERS AND INFORMAL AGRI PRODUCERS

Community & Impact, In the News /

6DOT50 and BanQu have partnered to deliver digital money, digital identities and transactional services to marginalised workers and contributors to big brand supply chains. Smallholder farmers, recyclers and waste pickers, as contributors into the supply chains of big brands, are still unable to open bank accounts. For these individuals, being locked out of the global

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SPAR’s Rural Hub Programme exemplifies the empowerment of small-scale farmers

Community & Impact /

SPAR South Africa has once again been announced as the winner of the Rural and Township Development category for its Rural Hub Programme at the prestigious 2021 Absa Business Day Supplier Development Awards. The Awards celebrate companies that are building a better South Africa and 2021 is the second year in a row that the

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Business leaders must declare ‘zero tolerance’ for GBV

Community & Impact, In the News /

Gender-based violence (GBV) should be viewed as a human rights issue by South African companies, who have a vital role to play in eradicating the terrible scourge that is currently gripping our country. Given that businesses operate within society and form a part of the social fabric, companies are far from immune to the social

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NEW INVESTMENT IN HOMEGROWN TECHNOLOGY PROVIDING WATER TO COMMUNITIES IN NEED

Community & Impact /

The Vumela Fund, established by FNB Business and Edge Growth, today announced a new investment in Kusini Water, a cleantech enterprise that provides clean drinking water to local communities and corporates by manufacturing mobile, solar-powered water purification systems made from locally sourced macadamia nut shells and nanotechnology. The investment will enable Kusini Water to expand

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MTN’s Kindness culminates in a donation to South African Depression and Anxiety Group

CSI Initiatives, Environment /

MTN has donated R500,000 to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group, after its successful Share Kindness campaign that ran over October for World Mental Health month.   At a time when the stress of long-term isolation and sustained anxiety is seriously impacting mental health across the globe, MTN’s Share Kindness campaign aimed to raise

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A Food Systems Approach: Setting the Table to Address Agriculture’s Triple Challenge

Community & Impact, Programmes /

Imagine the concept of ‘food systems approach’ as organising a concert to bring together a wide range of performers across different genres, from classical orchestras and folk singers to rock bands and hip-hop musicians. To make it work, you need to take the relationships and power dynamics of all the stakeholders into account, who despite

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TRANSPORT COMPANY SECURES FUNDING TO EXPAND

Community Old, Environment /

DKN Transport, a level 1 B-BBEE contributor with a 30% black female shareholding, has secured funding from The Engen Convoy Fund to enable this proudly South African privately owned company to unlock additional market opportunities. Headquartered in Johannesburg since 2004, DKN Transport provides road freight logistics solutions across various industries, nationally and cross-border into Africa.

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