Two of South Africa’s tech giants – Vodacom and Samsung – are leading the transformational charge with the recent announcements of their Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment ratings. For Vodacom, this means one jump up the ratings, a result of accelerating a concerted transformation strategy, ensuring the local economy is structured and transformed to […]
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Their company, Cloudy Deliveries, allows residents to request telephonically for the boys to do their grocery shopping or pick up their takeaways. Teenage boys from Langa, Cape Town, are using their bikes to serve their community during lockdown. The team of boys, aged 14 to 19, are delivering food to residents’ doorsteps for only R9.
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Philanthropic responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Africa should be guided by the blueprint that Ebola provided in West Africa, said Carl Manlan, chief operating officer of the EcoBank Foundation in Togo. He was one of three speakers in the final session of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Africa Month Virtual Symposium. The 27 to
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Edge Growth is pleased to announce that the Edge Action Fund has awarded a debt loan investment to Engen Belfast, a wholly black-women-owned company that is bringing jobs and income to the small town of Belfast in Mpumalanga. “The investment in Engen Belfast 1 Stop was a landmark investment for the Edge Action Fund and
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