Meet Lwanda Gumede, who built a marketplace for contractors. CID is a platform that connects customers and tradespeople.

Absa has opened applications for its R12 million Absa Youth Entrepreneurship Fund, aimed at supporting qualifying black entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35. It combines grant funding with ...

The township economy, often referred to as the kasi economy or informal sector, is estimated to be worth nearly R900 billion. Despite its significant economic contribution, this sector is frequently ...

Bank overdrafts might fill some small business owners with dread, but that’s only because traditional facilities tend to come loaded with high fees and strict repayment terms. This can cause a ...

Franchising has long been known to be a strong strategy for starting a business, mainly because, in spite of the large initial capital needed, the franchisee has immense support. The franchise offers ...

Dealing with conflict in the workplace can be a slippery slope. When people work together, situations can arise where there are misunderstandings, clashes of personalities, biases, stereotypes, and ...

When it comes to cybersecurity, the conversation can be quite complex. Everyone speaks about protecting systems, consumer data, and internal information. But one of the less obvious areas of exposure ...

Any SME handling perishable goods, food producers, agro-processors, pharmacies, certain retailers, depends on proper cold chain management, maintaining the correct temperature from production through ...

Post-pandemic, South Africa has seen more and more people working from home. In fact, there has even been an increase in freelancers entering the gig economy. As of 2025, the projected number of ...

South African SMEs need to stay compliant across several areas at once: business registration, tax, employment law, health and safety, consumer protection, and data protection, and getting these ...

Periodic research into small business access to finance in South Africa consistently points to the same underlying barriers: a genuine funding gap between what small businesses need and what is ...

Most business owners researching grants land on the same well-known sources, SEDFA, the dtic and the National Empowerment Fund, and stop there, missing other genuinely accessible grant routes that get ...