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Any time, any place, anywhere
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| Flexible working is normally conceived as working part time, compressed hours or starting earlier/finishing later. But what if your work was so flexible that it meant you could move to the other side of the world with virtually no impact? That is what Lysette Parbhu has done. She set up her ethical children's clothes company, Babies in Sheep's Clothing, in the UK and has just moved to South Africa for her husband's business and is still able to work more or less as normal around her two children.
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Payment Guarantees in the Transport Business
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| Many transporters insist on Payment Guarantees before they start operating. This article explain the concept and highlights the truth about payment guarantees in the South Africa environment. |
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Letter of Intent - The Abuse
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| The letter of intent was once a sought after prelim agreement in the transport industry in South Africa. Today it is simply ignored bue the aboue. This article explains the Letter of Intent and its legal standing today. |
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The Wired Entrepreneur: The Early Years of Elon Musk
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| “I didn’t really expect to make any money,” he says of his first venture. “If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.” |
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Choosing the right name for your business
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| It's amazing how few entrepreneurs put thought and research into naming their business. There are certain guidelines to follow to ensure you not only choose a good name, but that there won't be negative consequences for your choice. These are the rules for naming a company in South Africa. |
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SMEs - entrepreneurs sourcing start up finance
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| How do entrepreneurs source start up finance? |
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SMEs - South African SMEs and development capital
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| Certain entrepreneurs battle to get finance in South Africa |
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SME's - still a strong component in the South African economy
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| Despite the educational crisis in South Africa, entrepreneurship is thriving, albeit not the way it could be! |
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SMEs - survivalist start ups in South Africa present a unique problem
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| Problems associated with survivalist start ups in South Africa. |
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SMEs - surviving the recession in Africa
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| How can SMEs survive the recession in the African context |
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SMEs the impact of government interventions
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| An overview of the impact of government interventions on SME's.` |
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SMEs The impact of the current power crisis in South Africa
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| The impact of the current power crisis in South Africa on SME's is high. Where to from here? |
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SME's - whose responsibility is finance for SMEs?
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| Is it the role of government to fund SME's? |
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SME's - why is franchising not more popular in Africa
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| Why are franchises so seldom seen in Africa? |
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SMEs in Africa - is capitalism really dead?
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| A number of people have said capitalism has failed. Has it really? |
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SMEs – SMEs struggling in South Africa. Why?
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| Are there economic reasons for the problems of SMEs in South Africa? |
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Why an Outstanding Resume is Not Enough to Get an Interview: Reason 3
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| Many people think that a powerful, well written résumé is sufficient to give them the edge needed to secure a job interview. While an outstanding résumé is absolutely necessary, it may not always be sufficient. This is the third in a series of short articles which outlines the factors, other than your resume, which could determine whether you will be amongst the chosen few from the multitude. |
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How I Called the Breakout in Gold Three Weeks Ago
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| Back in early January, I wrote an article that focused on a bubble forming in the Treasury bond market. Then on Jan 22nd-23rd, I wrote a “two part” article about why gold was going to break out to the upside soon. So what do smart investors do when they see all of this? |
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Money is Tip Toeing Back into the Emerging Markets
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| The tide is starting to change and I want to make sure my readers are aware. Last year, the yen literally beat the performance of 177 currencies. Wow! |
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Work is Love made Visible
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| Can work be enjoyed? It seems that there are organizations that can create an environment where people enjoy their work and get a great deal of satisfaction from it. What is more, the impact on customer service is amazing. |
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Business Profile: Jabu Bags
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| Jabu Bags founder Megan Yarema talks about why she began her company, the challenges she faced, and her advice for other entrepreneurs. |
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3.2 The private sector: Training priorities, resources and reorientation
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| Little is known about the extent to which private sector training provision benefits the poor and even less is known about recent trends. |
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III. STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA:TRENDS AND CHARACTERISTICS
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| There has been a considerable development in the African capital markets since the early
1990s. Prior to 1989, there were just five stock markets in sub-Saharan Africa and three in
North Africa. |
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Africa's Secret Talent Pool
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| The skills and capacity problems of Africa will not be resolved until women, who comprise an estimated 50% of the potential workforce, are recognized, empowered, trained and allowed to take their place in business and government. Because of the size of the problem, panellists suggested changes to benefit women in the male dominated professional environment need to be legislated to be effective. |
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Update: NEPAD e schools Initiative
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| The ambitious NEPAD e schools project aims to impart ICT skills to young people throughout the continent, reaching 600,000 schools in 54 countries over the next ten years. Henry Chasia, Executive Deputy Chairperson, The NEPAD e Africa Commission, South Africa, said this is a massive undertaking. It is necessary to have partnerships, and the private sector IT companies have joined from the very beginning. |
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Quick Mobile Hits Around Africa
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| 2go
Rafiq wrote a review of a new mobile service out of South Africa called 2go. It enters the chat/social network fray with fellow South African competitor Mxit (past with interview Mxit’s Darryn Foster found here). |
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II. How Can MicroFinance Succeed In Africa?
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| African microfinance is as diverse as the continent itself. An array of approaches have been used, ranging
from traditional group-based systems, to specialised lending by banks and funded by international nongovernmental
organisations (NGO) financial intermediaries. Consequently, examples of African
microfinance offer an array of lessons of what works and doesn’t work. Drawing from these lessons, and
those from non-African examples, OSCAL developed a Microfinance model based on four principles: |
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A Limited Impact on Private Sector Development
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| Since the beginning of the process in 1990, the number of
privatisations through public flotation has been only
4 per cent of total transactions. Moreover, the trend is
downward, confirming the difficulty in African countries of
building stock exchanges and capital markets, still often
used by governments to raise loan finance rather than
capital for industry. |
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How My Company Got Started
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| South African entrepreneur Henk Boshoff talks about what led him to create his company, S-Curve Technologies, what it takes to succeed, and his advice for others. |
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How My Company Got Started
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| South African entrepreneur Henk Boshoff talks about what led him to create his company, S-Curve Technologies, what it takes to succeed, and his advice for others. |
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Content for Africa by Africans
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| About 3 months ago I attended the ICTExpo organized by ICTVillage, the event was quite interesting with a wide range of presentations including one from Google. It was during that event that the permanent secretary in the ministry of information and communication, Dr.Bitange Ndemo made a very important point concerning content, he said “the biggest challenge we have right now is the issue of locally produced content..we need content providers..”, once he finished a lady from South Africa informed him that they had a large amount of content from the space observatory which they were willing to offer for free, her offer was eagerly accepted. I left the event racking my brain over the need for quality local content and how I could play a major part of that process. |
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Is the United States of Africa already here?
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| The proposal to officially create a United States of Africa may not have come at a better time than now when international trade is dictating the pace of development thanks to technological innovation. You may not have noticed but recent trends indicate that the United States of Africa is already here. Through various communication technologies, Africa has transformed into a large business unit. |
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5.9 Applying lessons learned from Uganda in South Africa: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| Based on what we learned in Uganda through UEF
(including the convening power that the Shell
brand had with local banks) we established ETEF,
our South African fund, with new financial
products and an independent intermediary in the
form of an independent fund manager with
particular expertise in the small-scale energy sector
in place from the start. |
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5.6 Deciding on the right approach: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| We took explicit account of this reality in adapting
our model (viability, scaleability, business DNA
and Shell Group assets) to develop a ‘market entry’
strategy into the Ugandan and South African energy
SME sector. This strategy had four components: |
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5.4 Case Study 4: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| SME investment funds – deploying
local capital and the challenge of
going to scale |
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19.0 References: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
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| References |
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10.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Networks Clusters and the Octopus: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
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| While networks and clusters contribute to business success and continuity, the African entrepreneur experiences difficulties establishing and maintaining effective business networks and clusters (Barr, 1999; Kiggundu, 2001; Ramachandran & Shah, 1999). |
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10.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Networks Clusters and the Octopus: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
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| While networks and clusters contribute to business success and continuity, the African entrepreneur experiences difficulties establishing and maintaining effective business networks and clusters (Barr, 1999; Kiggundu, 2001; Ramachandran & Shah, 1999). |
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3.1 Developments in trade negotiations VI: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| Other developments in international trade negotiations |
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2.6 References: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| References |
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2.6 References: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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2.2 Sectoral performance IV: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| The services sector |
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2.2 Sectoral performance IV: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| The services sector |
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2.2 Sectoral performance II: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| The industrial sector |
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2.2 Sectoral performance I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| African economies are experiencing a structural shift whereby the service sector is
becoming an important driver of growth. In 2004, the service sector contributed 49
per cent of GDP growth compared to 36 per cent for industry (including mining
and quarrying) and 15 per cent for agriculture. In 2004, all three sectors continued
to grow, albeit at relatively low rates. The industrial sector had the highest growth
rate at 9.05 per cent, although growth in the manufacturing sector fell by almost 3.8
per cent compared to 2003. Developments within each sector and for each subregion
are discussed in more detail below. |
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2.1 Growth performance II: Economic Report on Africa 2007
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| Subregional growth performance varies substantially |
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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth - Public Works
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| In many countries, immediate, short-term solutions are needed to quickly ease the burden of unemployment. Public works programmes are a popular option. South Africa, which commits more than $800 mn to public works, has one of the best programmes on the continent, reports the ILO. In terms of technical design standards and the quality of completed physical infrastructure, the country’s public works programme “was regarded as surpassing anything that the ILO members of an evaluation team had encountered in more than 30 developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific,” notes the ILO.
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Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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| South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail. |
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Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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| South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail. |
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Quick Hits Around the (African) Web
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| Quick Hits Around the (African) Web |
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Africa’s ICT Leaders: Present and Forecasted
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| What does an emergent IT sector mean for Africa, some have asked. It may mean the following: |
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Africa’s ICT Leaders: Present and Forecasted
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| What does an emergent IT sector mean for Africa, some have asked. It may mean the following: |
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Hilton Hotels brings brand to Ghana
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| Inc. Magazine alerts us to an announcement by Hilton Hotels that it will open its first property in Ghana in early 2010. |
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African Business Women Series: Why So Important
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| I think that a good place to begin this discussion is to address the perception of Africa’s women from those who are outside and looking inside. |
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Interview With South Africa's Top Fashion Insider, Renato Palmi
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| South Africa's Renato Palmi an academic and also business developer for the clothing and fashion sector in South Africa discusses with Uduak Oduok aka Ladybrille the State of South Africa/ Africa's current Fashion Industry. He addresses issues on doing business in South Africa, expanding into the USA markets and the obstacles and challenges such as lack of business skills, and influx of cheaper Chinese imports that create challenges for Africa's fashion designers and the industry as a whole. |
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Interview With South Africa's Top Fashion Insider, Renato Palmi
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| South Africa's Renato Palmi an academic and also business developer for the clothing and fashion sector in South Africa discusses with Uduak Oduok aka Ladybrille the State of South Africa/ Africa's current Fashion Industry. He addresses issues on doing business in South Africa, expanding into the USA markets and the obstacles and challenges such as lack of business skills, and influx of cheaper Chinese imports that create challenges for Africa's fashion designers and the industry as a whole. |
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African countries on 2007 list of 50 most desirable outsourcing destinations
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| BusinessWeek’s recent article on rising outsourcing destinations highlights what many African entrepreneurs have proposed for years. Outsourcing to parts of Africa can be a win-win situation. |
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Exporting Franchise Systems
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| Too many franchise systems fail to go global because they get lost in translation, say Simon Lord. Inadequate research, appointing the wrong master franchisee and failing to run a pilot operation are just three of the errors that can lead to problems. |
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STRICTLY COME TEAM BUILDING
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| Tried the rocks and ropes approach to getting people to work together? Now dance your way to new levels of corporate teamwork with Biodanza.
A teambuilding programme based on dance has become the latest hot property in getting everybody from the CEO to the tea lady to work for the greater good of the company.
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Buying a Business in South Africa
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| This article is aimed at the businessman who wishes to buy a business in the South African environment. It mainly deals with the change in mindset from being on a job to running a business. |
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READ
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| Entrepreneurs should realize one important thing about reading good books by smart people: When you read the words of a good author, you are thinking his thoughts! |
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READ
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| Entrepreneurs should realize one important thing about reading good books by smart people: When you read the words of a good author, you are thinking his thoughts! |
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Other South Africa Related Articles
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Interview With South Africa's Top Fashion Insider, Renato Palmi
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| South Africa's Renato Palmi an academic and also business developer for the clothing and fashion sector in South Africa discusses with Uduak Oduok aka Ladybrille the State of South Africa/ Africa's current Fashion Industry. He addresses issues on doing business in South Africa, expanding into the USA markets and the obstacles and challenges such as lack of business skills, and influx of cheaper Chinese imports that create challenges for Africa's fashion designers and the industry as a whole. |
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Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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| South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail. |
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SMEs in Africa: the “Missing Middle”
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| The development of the private sector varies greatly
throughout Africa. SMEs are flourishing in South Africa,
Mauritius and North Africa, thanks to fairly modern financial
systems and clear government policies in favour of private
enterprise. Elsewhere the rise of a small-business class
has been hindered by political instability or strong
dependence on a few raw materials. |
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Quick Mobile Hits Around Africa
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| 2go
Rafiq wrote a review of a new mobile service out of South Africa called 2go. It enters the chat/social network fray with fellow South African competitor Mxit (past with interview Mxit’s Darryn Foster found here). |
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Making Finance Work for Africa
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| South Africa’s success in getting the financial sector to extend services to poorer communities could be adapted for other African countries, said Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance of South Africa. He told participants that this is exactly what has been achieved by South Africa’s Financial Sector Charter. The charter was developed some four years ago by the financial sector, including banks and insurers, after the government urged it to transform its practices and policies |
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Rebranding Africa
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| The focus of this WorkSpace session changed to "Perceptions of Africa" under the direction of the facilitator, Peter Sullivan, Group Editor in Chief, Independent Newspapers, South Africa. |
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Walking the Talk: Business Challenges for the NEPAD
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| Business and government leaders in South Africa say the formation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) has led to cooperation to implement programmes in the country and across Africa which embrace the spirit of the NEPAD.
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Champions from Africa: What It Takes to Be a Global Leader
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| "Aspiration is a driver of socio economic development", said Brian C Bruce, Chief Executive, Murray & Roberts Holdings, South Africa. South Africa has been and remains a critical link in the world, he said. This is exemplified by its leaders Jan Smuts who influenced the future shape of the world between the wars, Thabo Mbeki with his vision for Africa in the 21st century, both bringing different perspectives to the global dialogue.
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The Nigerian Context - A Story of Decline: Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
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| Nigeria is usually referred to as the giant of West Africa in that, with a population estimated at over 100 million, one in every two West Africans is a Nigerian. The country's GDP is larger than that of all the other countries in West Africa combined. Its GDP is actually larger than that of all countries in the African continent with the exception of South Africa. (Adaya, 1998).
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The Zulu Salesman
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| In South Africa, we stayed at a wonderful game reserve called Zulu Nyala. Most of the workers there come from a local Zulu village and take incredibly good care of the guests at the lodge.
One man, in particular, stands out because he was such a great salesman. “Mike” works in the gift shop and is single-handedly responsible for making sure guest go home with plenty of reminders of their stay in South Africa.
Here is how Mike worked… |
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