South Africa’s entrepreneurial base is more eager than ever as the country becomes a more attractive location for investment opportunities and small businesses, looking to South African Investment Network for business connections. As South Africa is increasingly recovering from the “brain drain” that drove the country’s educated business people to other countries and regions of [...]

Cape Town – One of the most influential players in the United States’ Silicon Valley and in companies like YouTube, PayPal and Google is a South African. Technology entrepreneur Roelof Botha was in the country last week to receive an honorary PhD from Stellenbosch University. Naspers chief executive Koos Bekker calls Botha one of the [...]

In the latest of our series of articles on how to create jobs, Helen Zille writes about the urgent need to give all South Africans a fair chance THE week before the state of the nation address, I walked through some streets of Cape Town to find out from members of the public what they [...]

America’s Silicon Valley is a combination of different factors all bought together in one place. It is a fearsome combination of experienced people, capital and ideas. Several attempts have been made to put in place in Africa the start-up and early stage capital required to create the funding end but they have in the past [...]

The number of entrepreneurs globally is now about 400 million, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2011 Global Report, has revealed. The report says there is an upsurge in entrepreneurship around the world, that entrepreneurs are now numbering near 400 million in 54 countries, with millions of new hires and job creation expectations in the coming [...]

South Africa could play a key role in helping Africa to live up to its potential and attract the foreign direct investment (FDI) it needs to accelerate growth and development, said Michael Lalor, director of Ernst & Young’s Africa Business Centre, at a press briefing in Cape Town last week. “South Africa is uniquely well [...]

At the end of the year, most young adults are chilling out, taking a break. One South African project is, however, looking to give them a break of a different kind. From 20 December to 14 January, a five-ton truck equipped with 10 free internet stations and a walk-in meeting area — will travel to [...]

With offices in London, Cape Town and Joburg, Quirk Marketing’s founder and CEO Rob Stokes is a leading modern-day South African entrepreneur. He’s a straight-shooting tech cowboy in the Wild West of social media – forever criss-crossing the globe to attend tech seminars and marketing conferences as a guest speaker. Rocking up at Quirk’s Cape [...]