South Africa has an incredibly low recycling rate. Just 10% of more than a hundred million tons of waste generated every year is recycled. This leaves heaps of rubbish wasting away in dumps or on the streets. But one Johannesburg entrepreneur has made it his business to turn trash into household gems. Julie Scheier caught up with the founder of the Republic of Recycle to find out how they're doing it
The DBSA Entrepreneurship Centre is an exciting initiative started by Deutsche Bank in 2008 to promote the emergence and development of Black owned and managed financial services entities. Based at DBSA Sandton, it provides aspiring Black entrepreneurs in financial services with the necessary infrastructure to start and develop aspirational and inspirational businesses over a two to three year period.
The state of entrepreneurship in South Africa has changed yet we hear very little about that narrative.So much has happaned and is currently happening to change this landscape therefore we need to start engaging with process we have made.Instead of saying there are no black owned competent businesses, we need to ask whereare they and what support do they need.
Abigail is a strategist, with passion to empower small business owners so that they can build for growth. She is the founder of Tushiyah Advisory Services, providing design and implementation of SME and Entrepreneurial Development programmes.
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South African township entrepreneur Lufefe Nomjana, known as the Spinach King, is helping bring health education to the residents of Khayelitsha.
South African social entrepreneur Lufefe Nomjana has built his spinach empire (Espinaca Innovations) from incredibly humble beginnings. In 2011 with just 40 rand and some spinach leaves from a community garden where he was volunteering, Nomjana made his first spinach-infused loaves from his neighbour's oven. Nomjana had noticed that the spinach in the garden grew quickly and prolifically and wanted to find a way of using it to make healthy food.
Entrepreneurship is usually touted as being key in securing a future for South African youth. You may be wondering why. Some studies seem to have the answer. One of them is the P.P.S Student Confidence Index survey. It reveals that 62 per cent of the participants in the survey are confident in exploring entrepreneurial opportunities upon graduation. This appears to suggest that there is a need for tertiary institutions to actively promote entrepreneurship as an attractive and viable career opportunity. But then, what about having tertiary institutions that place particular emphasis in refining entrepreneurial skills? Well, a group of young visionaries has taken this to heart. They are involved in the establishment of the Africa Cooperatives University of South Africa… For more, I spoke with Ma-son-wabe Fuma. He is the university's Co-Founder and Director for Communication, Administration and Public Affairs. As well as Sizwe M-kwanazi. He is also a Co-Founder and Director for the Planning and Programming at the Africa Cooperatives University of South Africa. Sizwe is currently at Oxford University in London, in the United Kingdom and he joined us via Skype…Let us take a look at how that interview went...
Watch out, Barbie, there's a new doll in town. A South African entrepreneur has come up with a range of African dolls, each celebrating a different African culture. CCTV's Julie Scheier got to check them out.
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