Tag: funding
Early-stage entrepreneurship: Tips to help budding business owners make it through the first few...
With entrepreneurship critical to SA’s economic recovery, Consumer Financial Education Specialist at Momentum Metropolitan Claire Klassen shares tips and resources to help aspiring entrepreneurs...
Lack of funding impedes services to people with psychosocial disabilities
Mental healthcare for persons with psychosocial disabilities has historically been under-prioritised. Globally, there has been a shift away from institutionalisation as the primary response...
Old Mutual launches SME – Dedicated business unit servicing SA SMEs
To address the needs of growing small and medium businesses, Old Mutual has launched a new business offering to service the SME business sector...
Research identifies barriers to funding for early-stage social enterprises
OVER the last ten years, the SAB Foundation has invested in over 200 social enterprises. We define social enterprises as businesses solving social problems....
AfDB secures nearly US$90 mln in new funding towards sustainable energy in Africa
The African Development Bank says it has secured $90 million in new donor commitments towards the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA).
In a statement...
Eskom widens its funding search to sukuk market
South Africa’s indebted power utility Eskom Holdings plans to issue a R1 billion sukuk bond as it tries to diversify funding sources to reduce...
City declares an intergovernmental dispute to ensure all SMMEs qualify for relief funding
The Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, declared an intergovernmental dispute with the Minister of Tourism, Ms. Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, on the application...
Hope: The missing ingredient for successful business
Hope is the ingredient that gets many startups and small businesses through the early stage battles for revenue, lack of funding, and the demands...
Winners share R13,65-m!
A total amount of R13 650 000 in funding was awarded to twenty finalists at the recent SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards 2019.
THE R1,3-million...
SA craft beer start up raises more than R1 million through crowdfunding
Drifter Brewing Company have raised more than a million rand through equity crowdfunding on Uprise.Africa according to SME South Africa.
Drifter Brewing Company,...
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