Sometimes a business idea does not start with a big plan. At times, it starts with a problem that needs to be solved. For Phumulile Mkhonza, it began in 2019 when she was a second-year student who ...

Believe it or not, funders truly understand that businesses need funding to grow. But they also know that it requires much more than cash flow and capital injections to grow a business – it takes a ...

For South Africa’s small and micro enterprises, funding remains both the fuel and the fire. It powers growth, yet its absence can halt a business in its tracks. The recently released 2025 South ...

Any SME handling perishable goods, food producers, agro-processors, pharmacies, certain retailers, depends on proper cold chain management, maintaining the correct temperature from production through ...

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 ...

This Business Plan template can help you clearly state your enterprise’s mission and vision.

Post-pandemic, South Africa has seen more and more people working from home. In fact, there has even been an increase in freelancers entering the gig economy. As of 2025, the projected number of ...

South African SMEs need to stay compliant across several areas at once: business registration, tax, employment law, health and safety, consumer protection, and data protection, and getting these ...

Customer needs and preferences genuinely shift over time, but reacting to every perceived trend wastes resources chasing changes that may not reflect your actual customers, while genuinely building ...

Celebrating black-owned businesses matters, and doing it in a way that actually helps them, rather than only naming a handful in an article, means understanding how to find them, verify them, and ...

In April 2024, local e-commerce group Takealot in partnership with the Gauteng government introduced its Takealot Township initiative. It features six different programmes aimed at empowering ...