Lady luck seems to smiling at South African startup EmptyTrips because just after winning the Chivas Venture Pitching Den at the 2017 SA Innovation Summit, they are set to represent the country at the 2018 Startup World Cup in San Francisco, California. At the meet up, the start stands a ...
Telkom South Africa has launched its FutureMakers fund whose aim is helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses. According to Telkom group CEO Sipho Maseko, the firm wanted to find a different way of running such a programme. The fund will include four pillars among them the FutureFund – an initial investment of R100-million ...
Recent Xenophobic attacks in SouthAfrica have sent shockwaves all across Africa and the world with reactions streaming in from leaders and fellow Africans. iAfrikan has decided to help curb the vice by launching a tool allowing the public to submit various reports relating to xenophobic attacks via SMS (Active later ...
Xenophobic attacks are not new to South Africa; seven years ago the country’s capital city Johannesburg witnessed attack that left dozens dead in their wake later spreading to the city of Capetown with most victims being Zimbabweans. The country is at it again and last week about 6 people were ...
From Blog.Harris.com Digital Migration in Africa has been dogged with controversies with the main issues being lack of awareness that caught broadcasters and viewers off guard, prices of Set top boxes, Competition between foreign and local investors within the media space and lack of adequate ...
SHE-Spark August Changemaker is calling for applications from passionate female entrepreneurs in South Africans who at the early stages of building social businesses and organisations that exist to make a difference for women and girls living in poverty. The program is an intensive five day live-in workshop in Johannesburg where ...
Uber, the app that connects riders with drivers, created over 2,000 jobs in South Africa since launching in late 2013. The jobs created are both direct and indirect with the company empowering hundreds of entrepreneurs to become small business owners in South Africa, contributingo significantly to the 50,000+ global entrepreneurs who are ...
The eighth annual finance options meeting is scheduled for October 30, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. The principal pan-African executive briefing will host senior-level directors and CEOs to get to "the heart of the issues and opportunities surrounding the financing of power projects within Africa." According to EnergyNet Ltd, the ...
South Africa has installed its first Bitcoin vending machine, which gives users the ability to receive Bitcoin in exchange for rand. The Bitcoin vending machine is located in Kyalami, north of Johannesburg at a business called Metroman, which is a friend’s shop that opened on June 1, 2014. Rolf Deppe ...
Microjobbing platform M4JAM has strategically allied itself with top South African companies to create more than 100,000 microjobs to jobseekers. Short for money for jam, M4JAM is partnering with Telesure, 1Life and TomTom. It is a digitally enabled microjobbing platform hosted on WeChat. It permits companies to distribute easy microjobs ...
Jinko Solar, a US-based renewable energy firm, will open its R80-million production facility in Cape Town Tuesday. Speaking at a US-Africa summit in Washington yesterday, Rob Davies, South Africa’s trade and industry minister, said the launch of the facility is an indicator that South Africa is turning out to be ...
Emerge Mobile, a tech start-up based in the South African town of Durban, has launched a smartphone-based mobile payment card acceptance solution called iKhokha. Already, iKhokha has been appointed as the first go-to-market vehicle for The Edge, an Emerge Mobile device. The technology allows users to accept card payments using ...
South African's leading endurance athletes now have an opportunity to take their careers to greater heights. Several of these raising stars have been selected into the Endurocad Satellite program, a first of its kind on the African continent. According to management, ENDUROCAD aims to become the most proficient high performance ...
