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CookoutSunday is a Township Business Success Story

CookoutSunday Soweto is one of the country’s buzziest markets. Cookout Sunday is a daytime quarterly family event (four times a year) of culinary and cultural activities created to educate, initiate, and expose your and upcoming chefs and vendors the market and also expose different culinary styles to the masses by giving a new and sophisticated...

What you Can Learn about Turning Passion into Profit from Siba Mtongana

From cooking in her family home in the township of Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape, to cooking on the television screens of millions of people in 150 different countries, including most recently the US on The Cooking Channel to over 60 million in the States alone, Chef Siba Mtongana has turned her passion for food...

SA’s startup ecosystem offers a positive vision of country’s future

South Africa’s startup ecosystem is robust and growing, but our entrepreneurs and investors need to develop a truly global mindset to take advantage of a globalising world. Two recent startup studies on the country’s entrepreneurial and investment sector, released just this month, backs up the hype with research and hard figures, pointing to a booming...

SA startup Tastepal selected for International World Summit Awards

Johannesburg based food ordering startup tastePal has been nominated as best national digital solution for South Africa for the international World Summit Awards. The awards are a global initiative run within the framework of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The event aims to select digital innovation that is making a positive impact on society. There are eight categories...

Accenture Africa’s Top 30 Tech Start-ups

Africa’s Top 30 Tech Start-ups is an initiative by Accenture to identify the top tech start-ups on the continent. They are looking for those start-ups founded by Africans, that are solving problems in business, government and civil society. They believe in championing start-ups, accelerating digital transformation, driving innovation and helping to unlock Africa’s abundance for all! Entries...

Flowchart Tools / Software

A Flowchart is  a diagram full of shapes and symbols that collectively represent a process. Using a flowchart you can easily explain a complicated process via 2D or 3D graphical images of the data and represent the connection between any content and information. If your task includes statistics, a flowchart can explain it even better. See...

LaunchLab’s Ideas Programme in partnership with Mercedes-Benz SA

LaunchLab together with partners Nedbank, Santam, Mercedes-Benz SA and WineTech has recently launched the second semester of its 2018 LaunchLab Ideas Programme. The aim of this programme is to accelerate entrepreneurs on their journey to build successful businesses. LaunchLab’s mission is to facilitate valuable connections for startups and corporates, to accelerate access to market for the...

Applications for Merck Accelerator Cape Town Satellite Program are still open

Are you an early stage start-up based in Southern Africa? Are you working at the cutting edge of innovation and would like to run a collaboration project with Merck to solve real-life problems? Is your startup innovation related to Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Performance Materials and our innovation focus areas? If you have answered yes...

Seedstars World 2018

2018 Seedstars World, the largest startup competition for emerging markets, is back in Africa to scout for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs and accelerate them on their path to global scaling. On this 2018 edition of the tour, we will visit over 20+ cities across Sub-Saharan Africa to hosting bootcamps and pitch competitions, Countries...

IBM South Africa / Tshimologong Precinct acceleration bootcamp

IBM South Africa plans to next month run a six-week long acceleration bootcamp next month together with Joburg incubator Tshimologong Precinct. The bootcamp is being run as part of IBM’s Equity Equivalence Investment Programme. Under the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) codes multinationals that are reluctant to give away ownership can provide the equivalent value in training black people or assisting...