Tag Archives: Cape Town
Cape Town Celebrates Its Public Spaces With Infecting The City In March 2013
Vibrant and unexpected, the Africa Centre’s Infecting The City Public Arts Festival will erupt onto the streets and interrupt the public spaces of Cape Town for the sixth time from the 11th to the 16th March 2013. Infecting The City is one of the most extraordinary annual public arts festivals on the African continent. During [...]
It’s The Season To #GiveResponsibly
CCID launches SMS donation service to help the homeless in the CBD. The Cape Town Central Improvement District (CCID) has launched an SMS donation service as part of its GiveResponsibly campaign in an effort to help break the cycle of homelessness on the city’s streets. The SMS line forms part of the augmented Give Responsibly campaign [...]
City Business Support Projects Unveiled At Youth Conference
The City of Cape Town Town’s over-arching programme for local entrepreneurship support today announced a major roll-out of new projects aimed at bringing the City’s entrepreneurs closer to local business-support services. At the first day of the two-day Youth Entrepreneurship Conference and Expo at the Bellville campus of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape [...]
Cape Town Calls For Aspirant And Existing Young Entrepreneurs To Overcome Economic Challenges
Cape Town is known to be the entrepreneurship capital of South Africa, but economic migration to the City as reflected in the latest census figures means that local efforts to support entrepreneurship must be redoubled, says Alderman Belinda Walker, Mayoral Committee Member for Economic, Environmental & Spatial Planning. Alderman Walker says the two-day Youth Entrepreneurship [...]
Khayelitsha Entrepreneur Creates Jobs In Tough Economic Times
A 21-year-old Khayelitsha entrepreneur is single-handedly on his way to unclog major overcrowding at local public health facilities without costing the state a cent. In fact, his venture is saving the economy thousands of lost man-hours. Ilitha Park resident Sizwe Nzima’s Iyeza Express is a small business that picks up chronic medication from local clinics [...]
Small Businesses Invited To Pitch To Cape Union Mart
Cape Union Mart, one of South Africa’s most iconic retail brands, is hosting its annual Supplier Open Day on 17 October 2012 in Cape Town. “We’ve always supported small South African businesses, and we realise just how challenging it can be to get a foot in the door as a supplier for a large company,” [...]
Groupon SA Donates R100k To Silicon Cape
Daniel Guasco and Wayne Gosling, founders of the successful Silicon Cape startup Twangoo, which was acquired by Groupon in 2011, have donated R100 000 to the Silicon Cape Initiative. The Groupon joint CEOs have challenged others to match or trump this donation. Silicon Cape, which launched in 2009 to increase the number and caliber of tech [...]
Designing The City Of Tomorrow
Can the discipline of design, generally seen as the playground for creative thinkers and artists, play a tangible role in changing the way a city operates? Programme director of the Cape Town World Design Capital (WDC) 2014 project, Richard Perez, plans to find out. Design can mean a lot of different things to different people; [...]
Have You Secured Your Seat At The On-line Retailing Conference And Exhibition Cape Town 2012?
Trade Conferences International’s fourth bi-annual Online Retailing Conference Cape Town 2012 will bring professionals from; technology, innovation, management, implementation, governance, and security all together in the melting pot of twenty-first century online retailing. An independent study held by a major South African retail group shows that retail conducted online only accounts for 0.5% of the [...]
Taking A Two-Wheel Tour
South Africans are lucky. Our country has so much to offer—we can literally stand on a golden beach and turn around to face a breathtaking mountain range. Go from having breakfast in the snow and end up having sundowners in blistering temperatures. All in a day. We often hear of people embarking on journeys to [...]
