Entrepreneurs with technology offerings or products aimed at solving challenges that industry face have been given an opportunity to secure possible contracts and business support through a new online platform. OpenIX, previously known as the Open Innovation Solution Exchange, is a web-based platform hosted by The Innovation Hub, launched with the City of Tshwane and… [Continue Reading]
Software developer Justin Coetzee is helping to smooth out the kinks in the public transport system with the launch of his latest product – the GoGauteng app. Aimed at reducing the stress and frustration that often go hand-in-hand with public transport, GoGauteng follows the award-winning GoMetro app he developed to provide up-to-date information to Cape… [Continue Reading]
Up to R5 million in funding is available to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) business owners who partner with each other to grow the local economy. The Gijima KZN Local Competitiveness Fund (LCF), run by the province’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism since 2011, aims to promote economic development and increase local competitiveness by encouraging businesses to… [Continue Reading]
A business owner claims she has saved up to 50% on cellphone calls since the introduction of the new mobile termination rate by the Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) in April. Cindy Steenkamp – the executive director of Macsafety Africa, a company that supplies safety equipment, protective clothing and services to the marine, mining… [Continue Reading]
Consumers may already be reaping the benefits of cheaper prepaid call rates after the recent introduction of a new mobile termination rate (MTR), but these savings are unlikely to filter through any time soon to business owners on cellphone contracts. The new termination rates, which are the fees operators pay each other to carry calls… [Continue Reading]
The adoption by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) of a new single registration process will see business owners save time and money. The new single registration process, which Sars began rolling out last month, consolidates the registration of all types of tax products for both individuals and legal entities into one single registration process.… [Continue Reading]
South Africa’s highly-anticipated first small business development minister Lindiwe Zulu carries the hopes of millions of small business owners on her shoulders, after President Jacob Zuma appointed her to this new ministry as part of his second-term cabinet. Zulu, a former special adviser to the president for international relations, who has admitted to not having… [Continue Reading]
Innovation is key. That’s what South Africa can learn from Chile, where something of an entrepreneurship revolution is on the go. In recent years the South American nation of 17 million has captured the attention of many with its Start-Up Chile programme. Launched in 2010, it offers entrepreneurs from around the world grants of $40… [Continue Reading]
Startup businesses struggling to secure funding to take their operations to the next level have been flourishing thanks to millions of rand in investment funding from the South African Breweries (SAB) Foundation. The SAB Foundation launched the Tholoana Fund three years ago; it seeks to benefit historically disadvantaged individuals and communities through entrepreneurial development in… [Continue Reading]
Business owners may soon be able to access free internet following the roll-out of pilot projects in Gauteng late last year and more recently in the Western Cape. The free Wi-Fi pilot projects, first launched in Pretoria, already provide free internet access to about 24 000 people, says Tim Human, project manager at Stellenbosch-based non-government… [Continue Reading]
