For me it only took a simple BLACK t-shirt to find the right path. A few years ago I was a frustrated as young man who just graduated and stuck in a place of where there is no hope. Not to mention how covid affect me and my future as an aspiring copywriter. A dream...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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....