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Africa Awards For Entrepreneurship: All The Winners

Africa Awards For Entrepreneurship: All The Winners

Legatum, a private international investment group and Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, today announced that SECURICO has won the US $100,000 grand prize of the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, SECURICO provides guarding services and electronic security solutions, and is the first security company in Zimbabwe to be ISO [...]

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Africa-focused Online Publisher Launches Two New Portals In Zim And Botswana

Africa-focused Online Publisher Launches Two New Portals In Zim And Botswana

Umuntu Media recently made the news for receiving $1m from an emerging market-focused venture fund. Now Johan Nel, CEO of Umuntu, whom Ideate covered previously, is adding two more portals in its quest to provide local content to previously underserved areas within Africa.
Having recently confirmed a $1m investment from eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund), [...]

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1 min. with a Superhero: Geoff Brink, Unicycle-riding through South Africa

1 min. with a Superhero: Geoff Brink, Unicycle-riding through South Africa

Today we’re chatting with Geoff Brink, who happens to be riding from Durban to Cape Town on a unicycle for something called the “Heart & Sole” tour. I’ve known Geoff for almost 20 years, and can confidently say if anyone can do this, Geoff can. Geoff’s will travel across South Africa in order to raise [...]

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…and on our doorstop.

…and on our doorstop.

Yesterday was an inspiring day for Africa with one of our kin being sworn in as President of the Free World. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside watching Obama stepping up.
I felt proud to be African.
…but then, I remembered that Zimbabwe is also in Africa.

[Thanks Chris for the pics]
Fred Roed is the marketing guy [...]

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Doing business in Zimbabwe

Doing business in Zimbabwe

Writing a cheque in Zimbabwe requires a dictionary on-hand for a word that most of us have never had to spell before – “quadrillion”.
It makes the “only” look a bit out of place.
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make [...]

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