Tag Archives: Africa
As The Sun Sets Slowly In The West, We Bid You Happy New Year!
From all of us at Ideate, the authors and the entrepreneurs, the readers and contributors, the brave and the stupid, the rich and the soon to be rich – we say thanks for another great year. We’ve continued this year in the vein that we started, supporting the little guy, that unsung hero of the [...]
Wanted: Free Thinkers To Build Africa’s Future
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business is looking for highly motivated individuals to spend a year in a unique, free thinking, applied academic programme to envision a better future for Africa. Applications are now open for the MPhil in Inclusive Innovation, a new Master’s degree that gets under way in February 2013. [...]
Innovative Partnership Between Business And Academe To Bolster Company Leadership And Management In Africa
Africa’s top business school and one of the world’s leading consulting firms have joined forces to boost leadership and management capacity in Zimbabwe by launching an innovative strategic alliance in that country. The first-of-its-kind partnership between the UCT Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) and PwC Advisory Services, Zimbabwe, will see the two working together [...]
“Afr[iCAN] Entrepreneur Rising”: A Must Read For All Entrepreneurs From Africa
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Politicians and business shakers-and-movers across Africa agree that the solution to Africa’s poverty and job creation challenges right now, lies with creating many more successful entrepreneurs. As such there’s a great deal of hype and talk around how to do this. The first critical step in this complex change process is to help change the [...]
Solving Africa’s Books Crisis, One Copy Shop At A Time
In much of Africa, books are both expensive and hard to find — but almost every small town has a copy shop. Digital distribution start-up Paperight aims to bridge the gap, using copy shops to get affordable books to where they are needed, while protecting the rights of authors and publishers. “Paperight is essentially a [...]
Tomorrow Is World Industrial Design Day (WIDD). Why Is This Important?
The 6th World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) taking place on 29 June (tomorrow). Industrial design has played in improving our society on an economic, sustainable and environmental front. Says Janine Johnston, CEO of Eco Design Initiative: “Design is first and foremost about solving problems and improving lives. Designers play a responsible and vital role in [...]
Africa Open For Business – A View From Davos
With Africa being proclaimed as the future for business investment, the 42nd World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos in January presented a great opportunity for me to verify this view. There were any number of issues clamouring for attention at Davos this year – the Arab Spring, the Eurozone crisis, burgeoning youth unemployment, the [...]
South Africa’s SME Policy Needs A Shift In Emphasis
Rwanda has turned around its brand from the horror of genocide to one of hope. It is fast becoming a model for Africa in a number of growth areas, one of which is the ease of doing business in that country. In fact, the World Bank Doing Business Report for 2009 named Rwanda as the [...]
Want To Be An Entrepreneur? Kick-Start Your Future With The Allan Gray Fellowship Programme
The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is offering South Africa’s brightest young minds a head-start in life through its Allan Gray Fellowship Programme. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Fellows, into South Africa’s future high growth entrepreneurial leaders and includes comprehensive financial support as one its many benefits. Applications to the Fellowship [...]
PayU Opens Up New Markets For South African Online Businesses
South African online payment service provider, PayU, today announced a partnership that enables online businesses to accept Ukash as an additional online payment method. “Customers who do not have credit cards want to enjoy the cost saving and convenience of shopping online. Our partnership with Ukash enables online businesses to service cash customers who previously [...]
