This is the story of Xolani Dyesha, founder of Rise & Shine Bakery, a business in rural Adelaide, Eastern Cape.

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 ...

We’ve all been there: You shop online, spot the picture that looks exactly like what you are looking for – and the price is surprisingly affordable. Reviews are unclear, and the description checks out ...

With over a decade of experience in multi-entity financial leadership, Liza Grové is a results-driven Financial Manager dedicated to helping SMEs build scalable, compliant foundations. As an ...

Darlene Menzies is the CEO of Finfind, an online platform that helps small businesses find the finance that fits them. A serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years in ICT and banking, she also built ...

Rinaldo Josie is a Chartered Accountant, CA(SA), and an operations executive. His work centres on operational discipline, good governance and measurable results, and as an APC mentor he helps train ...

Getting a contract to supply a large entity such as a municipality can sometimes be the opportunity that catapults a small business that is scraping by towards consistent sales. If your business ...

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 ...

Non-repayable grants do not have to be paid back, which makes them the most attractive category of small business funding on paper. They are not free money in the way that phrase implies: most come ...