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The MTN Business App Academy receives SAQA NQF 4 and MICT SETA accreditation

Calling all future game-changers interested in recoding the world and a career in app development. Over 2 500 aspirant coders and budding tech entrepreneurs who are registered for this year’s MTN Business App Academy, have the opportunity to both learn and improve their qualifications. The 2021 MTN Business App Academy which is part of the MTN […]

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CSI during an economic downturn – why more should be the norm

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A view from Lynette Saltzman, MD, Dis-Chem It may seem contrary, but tough economic conditions make an even more compelling argument for an unwavering commitment to corporate social investment initiatives. With 2021 being the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Dis-Chem Foundation, it’s fitting to look back to see what we have accomplished, yet

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ASEDA on the road for skills development in North West

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Road maintenance backlogs continue to mount alarmingly. As Technical Assistance to the Community Based programme at the Department of Public Works and Roads in the North-West province, ASEDA, an engineering and infrastructure company is using its expertise to support the training of 9 000 people in North West province to undertake essential repair and rehabilitation

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Digitising CSI to maximise social return on investment

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South African corporates collectively spent R10.7 billion on CSI in 2020. Imagine if all that money achieved its intended outcomes. It could change millions of lives for the long-term. CSI has the power to be transformative, but only if the spend is commensurate with the social return. This is according to Nozizwe Vundla, Head of

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A newly empowered group of entrepreneurs graduates from the FLAME 2.0 programme

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Fifteen entrepreneurs graduated recently from the second phase of the ASISA Foundation Financial Literacy and Micro Enterprise Programme (FLAME 2.0) in Qonce, in the Eastern Cape. The FLAME 2.0 programme empowers beneficiaries from previously disadvantaged communities with basic entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills to foster financial capability and enable greater economic activity. In 2019, The

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Why monitoring and evaluation is essential for business development service providers

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By: GIBS Business School Entrepreneurship Development Academy Monitoring and evaluating (M&E) programmes and interventions are considered vital in many large international organisations, foundations, and bodies. This is especially so when millions are spent towards a projected impact and it becomes imperative that we learn about the interventions, monitor what is working (and what is not),

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Millions of African women benefit from Coca-Cola’s women empowerment programme

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Cola-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Africa’s largest Coca-Cola bottling partner, has released audited results of the Coca-Cola system’s 5by20 women empowerment programme, which revealed that million women in Africa have been equipped through the initiative to succeed as entrepreneurs. The 5by programme aimed to assist women entrepreneurs across the Coca-Cola value chain – including agricultural producers, suppliers, distributors,

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Accounting graduate programme fuels South Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and empowers young graduate accountants

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By SAICA Enterprise Development By the end of 2020, approximately 3.1 million (29,8%) out of 10,3 million young people aged 15-24 years were unemployed in South Africa, summing to an alarming 63.2% youth unemployment rate, according to Statistics South Africa (Q4:2020). This statistic is still on the rise and thus it is imperative that we

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Post-Covid-19: A chance to leapfrog Africa’s development through digitalisation

Thought Leadership / admin

By Jessie Duarte, Special Adviser on Africa to the UN Secretary-General Africa recorded remarkable economic growth in the first 15 years of the 21st century, largely because of positive trends in the export of primary commodities, among other factors. However, this narrative of “Africa Rising” was skewed from the onset, as it focused mostly on

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Payment system launched for unbanked millions in Africa

In the News / admin

According to The World Bank’s Global Findex Database, in 2015 there were 350 million unbanked people in Sub Sahara Africa. Global Findex statistics are regarded as the world’s most comprehensive collection of data still cited today, which analyses how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. By comparison, it is estimated that currently there are

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