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11 Jun

The Year of Action Meets the Age of Deconstruction: How Young People are Rethinking Old Systems

Younger founders are becoming less interested in spaces where people perform competence at one another; instead, the focus is shifting from presentation to presence. This is not tradition being rejected for the sake of rebellion, but rather tradition being interrogated. Why must a pitch happen behind a stand? Why must credibility be staged like a TED Talk audition? Why must access flow in only one direction? These are not abstract questions; they are design questions, and the answers are quietly reshaping how new ecosystems are built...

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4 Jun

The Degree Was Never Meant to Be the Finish Line

The fifty years since 1976 have given South Africa’s youth more political freedom, greater access to education, and stronger institutional support than any generation before them. Yet the next chapter requires a different kind of courage. Not the courage to march, though that will always be honoured, but the courage to build, to launch, to fail publicly, and to begin again...

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29 May

Everyone Is in the Room. But No One Can Find Each Other.

Across South Africa and much of Africa, entrepreneurship has never lacked attention. Governments have launched schemes and support mechanisms, funders have built programmes, corporates have expanded supplier development, and ecosystem actors have multiplied. The intention is right, and much of the investment is necessary. Yet, for many entrepreneurs the experience remains deeply frustrating, not because nothing is there, but because nothing quite connects. ..

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21 May

Why Small Business Growth in Africa Cannot Wait for Venture Capital

Small businesses are often expected to solve unemployment, drive innovation, and stimulate local economies, yet many remain excluded from formal financing systems. Traditional banks still view many small businesses as too risky to finance, particularly in their early stages. As a result, entrepreneurs are frequently trapped between being "too small" for institutional funding and not yet attractive enough for venture capital. In recent years, fintech lenders have emerged to help bridge this gap by offering founders more accessible pathways to capital with streamlined requirements...

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15 May

The Economics of Play: Africa’s Rising Toy Industry

African children deserve products reflecting their own languages, environments and experiences, not only imported characters from Hollywood franchises and foreign streaming platforms. The challenge now is whether African businesses, policymakers and investors are prepared to treat the economics of play as a serious sector worthy of innovation, investment and strategic attention, rather than simply a retail afterthought. Because in the end, the toys children play with do more than entertain them; they shape imagination, identity and how the next generation sees both itself and the world around it...

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6 May

Traditional Leaders as Strategic Enablers of Rural Agribusiness Growth in South Africa

Right now, if two small farmers have a conflict over water rights or boundary lines, it drags on, it festers. Businesses die in that uncertainty. Traditional courts could resolve these matters in days, not months, giving entrepreneurs the stability they need to grow. There are roughly two million smallholder farmers in this country, most of whom work under traditional authority. And most of them are one market connection, one secure land agreement, one act of leadership away from something much bigger...

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