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South Africa’s unemployment rate is sitting at a scary 11-year high. In the second quarter it stood at 29%, up 1.4 percentage points from…

Does it make a difference who your parents are if you’re looking to start a business? To what degree do parents influence the chances…

A pivot from a business-to-consumer (B2C) to a business-to-business (B2B) model helped Ugandan on-demand transport service RideLink grow its revenue says founder and head…

Before she arrived at Kyaka II at the age of nine, former Rwandan refugee Vanessa Ishimwe had a “wonderful life”. After fleeing Rwanda with…

Would you still pursue an innovative business idea if those in your community thought you were crazy to try? This is exactly what a…

Running a business, no matter how old you are, is no easy feat. As an entrepreneur not only do you have to deal with…

African Leadership Academy (ALA) alumni, Anzisha Fellows and individuals who have participated in any of ALA’s programmes are set to benefit from a $500…

Twenty-four year old South African Karidas Tshintsholo may have grown up in a shack selling wire cars, but his agritech startup Khula! is now in…

In recent years South Africa has been rocked by a series of “Fees Must Fall” protests which has seen students across the country protest…

When Njabulo Mthanti, 22, registered his business last year he was keen to join the University of Pretoria’s business incubator TuksNovation as quickly as…