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Beyond funding: how strategic support and expert advice can take SA small businesses to the next level
27 November 2023: In South Africa’s highly competitive small business environment, entrepreneurs need a substantial number of resources to get off the ground and achieve growth. While access to Read More >
With robust systems, this entrepreneur keeps her passion for her business going
Since childhood Joanita Coetzee has fantasized about running her own restaurant, serving up play dishes for her baby brother from the time she can remember, but it always remained Read More >
This factory’s survival is testimony to its strength and quality
First there was the fire caused by the businesses heating equipment in 2019 that devastated the Roux siblings’ peanut processing factory in Centurion. “We basically had to start all Read More >
This entrepreneur tried everything, but remained focused on one goal
Some entrepreneurs are intensely focused on a single goal, others seem to have quite the opposite personality, scattering their attention across several businesses and even industries. It is not often Read More >
A “good deal” from the Energy Fund to ensure this business continues to thrive
Some twelve years ago Grant Muller was looking online for chilli seeds in pursuit of his gardening hobby and found the prices so high that it only took a few Read More >
Sound financial advice and mentorship an imperative for SA entrepreneurs
In an environment filled with economic curveballs, South African businesses face just as many challenges as they do opportunities. With cashflow management and funding being paramount to the survival of Read More >
Entrepreneurial couple exchange city treadmill for the veld, and build a thriving business
It is not often that a business can boast to be fully booked out a year in advance - in only its third year of operation. The good fortune Read More >
Renowned entrepreneur casts his line in the tourism trade, and pulls out a big one
When Dave Murgatroyd casts a line into the water, he is not sure what will bite, but he is always prepared to catch a big one. The renowned KwaZulu-Natal Read More >
JOBURG ENTREPRENEUR POWERS THROUGH THE ADVERSITY OF LOAD SHEDDING
Even for a seasoned entrepreneur like Pieter Kleinhans, who built his business from a tiny one-machine operation to a huge 3500 square metre factory today, load shedding stands out Read More >
FROM RURAL ROOTS TO THRIVING PRACTICE: MEET THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST BREAKING BARRIERS IN KWAZULU-NATAL
For Yolisa Kobo, the owner of a thriving occupational therapy business in Durban, her journey in entrepreneurship started in humble beginnings in the deep rural areas of the Eastern Read More >
AS A CHILD HE WAS DEPRIVED OF SCHOOLING – NOW HE IS BUILDING ROOMS FOR STUDENTS
The Shaka Residence of the Tshwane University of Technology is a remarkable residence. The complex of a dozen bright buildings rises above the countless rows of houses in Soshanguve. Read More >
FOR SOME ENTREPRENEURS, MERE TURNOVER GROWTH IS NOT ENOUGH
For some entrepreneurs, the constant growth of their business provides enough satisfaction that they don’t mind if it changes shape and forces them to step back from the operations Read More >
THIS HEALTH BUSINESS NOT ONLY SURVIVED COVID19 – IT CAME OUT STRONGER
The Covid-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time for Marli and Brandon Halasz’s Nuhuman health and fitness gyms, but looking back on it now, it was the Read More >
TOWNSHIP FUNERAL PARLOUR FAST GROWING INTO CORPORATE HEAVYWEIGHT
In all of his storied career in the photography, fuel, property, auctioneering, retailing and funeral industries, Ratau Mphahlele has not worked a single day for someone else. In fact, he wouldn’t Read More >