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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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SMEs - SMEs and South African banks
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| South African banks are permanently between a rock and a hard place in the context of SME's. |
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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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SMEs - Are African SMEs serious about business
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| Overseas businesses often question me as to the ability of South African SME's to deliver |
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Part 2 Interview of Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti
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| We complete our interview with Nigeria/New York's Fashion Designer Lola Faturoti. Here, Lola discusses some tips African designers can use to get noticed in the USA/European fashion industries. |
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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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African fashion features on Fashion Television
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| The always insightful program Fashion Television has two exciting podcasts on African fashion posted online. |
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Quick Mobile Hits Around Africa
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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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Regional Economic Communities in Africa
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| Regional economic integration has a long history in Africa. The South African Customs
Union (SACU) was established in 1910 while the East African Community (EAC) was
set up in 1919. The East African Community collapsed in 1987 but is now being actively
revived. Currently there are 14 regional economic communities in Africa. |
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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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Old Mutual (OM) Supports Expansion of Women’s Development Bank (WDB) Microfinance into KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa with USD 710,000
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| Old Mutual (OM), the largest financial services provider in South Africa, recently released a press release announcing a donation of ZAR 5 million (USD 710,000) to the Women’s Development Bank (WDB) Microfinance, a South African non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides micro-loans and training for poor, rural women. |
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