2014 feels like another world compared to now, yet we are still dealing with the same challenges if not worse. We Are Coming For Everything as a hashtag to highlight businesses and black professionals who were taking on industries that have been for a long time closed off to us. The following year the hashtag...
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Think About These Before You Start That Business
THE FIRST STEP There is always that exciting feeling that makes you enthusiastically feel like you have it all figured out, whenever you take a bold and courageous step to become an entrepreneur. The reality is that when you are still in the idea and conceptualisation phase, you actually don’t know much about the operations...
Young, Black and Under Attack: Corporate Blackballing
Before I begin expressing my views on the subject of ‘’Corporate Blackballing’’, I must declare that this opinion piece is riddled with personal encounters that I have experienced while working in the corporate environment. Furthermore, a few of my peers have also shared similar allegories with me and therefore I felt compelled to pen this...
Shell Helix Power Shop Launch – Are You driven Enough To Have Your Own Shop?
The nation is facing many challenges ahead on the journey to rebuilding the South African economy. Shell continues its unwavering commitment to nation-building in South Africa by playing its part in ensuring communities become vibrant centres of economic activity. When Minister of Small Business Development, Minister Ntshavheni, announced the roll-out of the Automotive Aftermarkets Support...
The Story of TymeBank
TYME – which stands for ‘Take Your Money Everywhere’ was spun out in June 2012 by a team within Deloitte Consulting, led by Coen Jonker & Tjaart van der Walt, as a mobile money remittance operator funded by MTN to provide technology to retailers that enable them to offer local remittance services cheaper than banks....
The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business is a Business Strategy
Nomayini: The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business is a business strategy and self-help book written for young black men between the ages of 16 at 35, predominantly from the townships with an entrepreneurial mindset or aspire to develop one. ‘Nomayini’ means ‘anything’ in IsiZulu language. The term is slang used pervasively in...
Venture Scale: A History Lesson On How Discovery Health Grew From 0 to R2.8 Billion In 7 years
Most South Africans know Discovery for its health insurance business connected to the wellness programme, Vitality. Those 2 businesses are the catalyst for what the company is today & were founded in the first 7 years of the business — the venture years. The story of Discovery is an anecdote of a true Venture Scale business....
Black Crown launches Heritage Month Collaboration with Designer Palesa Mokubung
South Africa’s latest ready-to-drink Gin and Tonic brand, Black Crown G&T has partnered with Designer Palesa Mokubong as part of their Heritage campaign called #OwnYourCrown. The campaign is in celebration of the country’s rich and diverse heritage and will see the designer work with kings and queens from mixed heritage households to document their stories...
Noma Yini: The Mentality You Need Before You Start Any Business
INTRODUCTION Before there are spreadsheets, seminars, incubators, ‘please find attached within’, paradigm shifts’, and ‘disruptive ideas’, There is ‘the streets’, ‘the corner’, ‘the hood’ or ‘ikasi.’ The streets have a wealth of knowledge found in books, this information is making rounds in some of the world’s leading universities. The only difference is the language used....
The Present Future of The Logistics Industry
Hello there, Welcome to issue #18. This week Uber launched their UberConnect service, which allows individuals the ability to send packages between each other. Droppa dubbed the ‘Uber for bakkies’ launched a full-service courier offering in conjunction with their same-day relocation service. Finally, The Courier Guy launched a smart locker service app called PUDO (which means Pick Up, Drop...