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Women take the lead in funding their own education

While data regarding women’s overall outcomes in education shows that there is still much collective work required in this space, leading education finance and education fund management solution specialist Fundi is seeing consistent investment by women in their own education. With almost 64% of current loan recipients women, Fundi CEO Makgau Dibakwane expects this percentage […]

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Financial services industry has key role to play in ESG sustainability

If the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, as well as last year’s riots in KZN, made something clear – the time for paying lip-service to sustainability, particularly ESG issues, is over. By Marilyn de Villiers for Mint Group and ITWeb That’s the view of Mint Group Sales Account Manager Tristan Dennis, who

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Innovating entrepreneurship to marry profit with a purpose for an inclusive post-pandemic future

Social innovation is transforming entrepreneurship. Profit-led businesses are realising that it no longer makes business sense to do business without a purpose and purpose-led non-profits are realising that their reliance on funding just isn’t sustainable. The happy medium is social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurs solve societal problems by carefully and skilfully crafting businesses that marry their

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Creating Shared Value: The Case Of Andrew Akoto-Addo Of The Ghana Tech Lab

Opportunities are enormous in Africa but there are very few pathfinders. Needless to say, Africa has the world’s most youthful and vibrant population with a predominantly suitable vegetative cover that other continents desire to increase the standard of living of its people through diverse economic activities. To state the obvious, we have failed to harness

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A woman’s place is… in the workplace!

In honour of International Women’s Day, we bring you industry leaders’ perspectives on workplace equality and inclusion. While gender equality in the workplace has made strides in recent years, there is still a long way to go before we achieve full equality and inclusion, and we must continue to discuss it. We will only achieve gender

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The serious social state of South Africa: Challenges and opportunities in our country’s social fabric

Scenarios are important instruments that establish consequences of different paths countries may traverse. Scenarios are good for mobilising a country towards a socially desirable end. Public mobilisation is the essence of politics and when mobilisation is driven by science based quantified foresighted outcomes, political choices become rational choices, rather than beerhall noises. Scenarios matter everywhere.

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Read this if you are starting a business in South Africa in 2022

Whether you’re leading a business or a business unit, or working as a freelancer, mastering business strategy is key to your success. And the end of a year and the start of a new one is a great time to create or revisit your strategy, says Tara Turkington, chief executive of Flow Communications. Here are

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Why reskilling will matter for South Africa’s success

South Africans have faced difficult circumstances in recent years. And with unemployment at a record 34.9 percent, the highest level since 2008, many South Africans are understandably tired and disillusioned. While there is little doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic, which is now in its fourth wave, contributed to the surge in unemployment, South Africa’s skills

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The Power of Entrepreneurial Skills Development

By Jolandi Snyders, Senior Business Development Manager at The Hope Factory Most small business owners would agree that growing their business is both their biggest desire and biggest struggle at the same time. The Hope Factory would like to propose that entrepreneurial skills development is crucial in improving business operations, which could lead to business

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How retailers are going digital-first this holiday season

For retailers this holiday season, everything is relative when you consider last year’s widespread lockdown of physical spaces and an accelerated shift to digital commerce in response to the global pandemic. According to Salesforce’s latest quarterly Shopping Index, global digital revenue grew by 11% year-on-year (YoY) in Q3, a much higher increase than was seen

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