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Resilience on the short: the inspiring comeback of Crawfords Beach Lodge
When Mark Crawford looks out over the buildings of Crawfords Beach Lodge nestled among lush coastal vegetation above the beautiful Cintsa beach near East London, he sees more than Read More >
Educational entrepreneur’s success a bulwark against the forces that tried to destroy him
It’s rare for the story of a single entrepreneur to highlight on one of South Africa’s greatest obstacles to progress and at the same time embody the ultimate solution Read More >
Daring to dream big: the engineering small business that has gone global
While most entrepreneurs typically start their businesses in their late thirties, after first spending years learning the ins and outs of an industry by working for someone else, especially Read More >
In Cape Town’s packed tourism scene, guest house finds its place with golf
When Jolyon Proudman and Heike Lührmann started La Roche Guesthouse in a leafy street in the coastal Cape Town suburb of Milnerton twenty years ago, there was only one Read More >
Entrepreneur builds a thriving guest house – and a big extended family
Few businesses are as all-consuming as a guest house. Take JJ Pieterse, who has built up the Ramasi Guest Services CC in Panorama, Cape Town, from scratch over two Read More >
Playing the long game, entrepreneur fulfils her bright yellow dream
Growing up poor in a small rural village in the Eastern Cape, Tuletu Kobo fixated on the dream of one day owning her own hotel. She can’t quite pinpoint Read More >
Turning crisis into capital: how one training business is empowering entrepreneurs
Sherene Anandham had worked her way up in the corporate world from shop assistant to group financial manager when the blatant structural unfairness still facing female executives in South Read More >
Drilling into opportunity and tackling mining one rig at a time
Zanele Nkosi never imagined she’d one day be running a drilling company, breaking new ground, literally and figuratively in the male dominated South African mining industry. Yet in just Read More >
Preschool entrepreneurs put passion before profits
Husband and wife team Cheryl de Freitas and Marnewicke Loubser know that the financial rewards of growing their Tiny Tots Academy preschool network is still decades away. But when Read More >
New, empowered generation taking parents’ legacy to the next level
Increasingly across South Africa intrepid black entrepreneurs are starting to hand over to their children the businesses that they have built against all odds. One such pioneer is Geoffrey Read More >
Seasoned professional builds a thriving law firm, overcomes adversity
Starting your own business is always harder than you think, even for the highly qualified professions such as lawyers. For Yanga Giyose, the managing director of the emerging corporate Read More >
Business plan competition award a boost for the community
A small education company’s already outsized impact on a community in Soweto got a major boost when they won the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Toolkit Business Plan competition Read More >
Building a legacy: why SA’s youth-led businesses need support to thrive
South Africa’s youth face one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, but instead of waiting for the right opportunities to arise, some are creating their own. For Read More >
Unstoppable entrepreneur takes on a few ‘quiet’ property development projects
An unmistakable mark of a true entrepreneur is someone who moves to a quiet coastal town for a “slower pace of life” and soon finds himself developing a 100-flat Read More >
