Category: Business

Business plan training is now available online for South African entrepreneurs, following the launch of the exciting startup business planning tool Hola Business earlier this month. Hola Business aims to simplify and streamline the process of getting a new business off the ground, helping entrepreneurs save both time and money in the early cycles of […]

GoDaddy, the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, has released the GoDaddy Global Entrepreneurship Survey which looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s smallest businesses. The research shows the pandemic has severely affected small enterprises, with 75 percent reporting a fall in revenues. Yet, the findings also reveal a resolve among those entrepreneurs to not […]

The 8th Angel Fair Africa would feature an all female investors and entrepreneurs panel; thus building on our 2016 all female investors panel. The investors pane, consisting of Hannah Subayi, Partner of Dazzle Angels, Evelyne Dioh, CEO of WIC Capital, Lelemba Phiri, Partner of Enygma Ventures and Maya Famodu, CEO of Ingressive Capital, will be […]

Mauritius has created a range of incentives that will effectively make it cheaper and easier than ever for investors and expatriates to live and work in the country, including reduced minimum investment limits and extending residency permits from three to 10 years. The changes, announced in the Mauritian national budget on 4 June 2020, have […]

The sustained reduction of interest rates and relaxation of lockdown levels is providing a significant boost to the recovery of average income and cash flow among salaried middle-class consumers who hold full-time or formal employment. This is according to FNB insights based on the income trends among its Retail and Private Banking customers who earn […]

Long before the turmoil of Covid-19, South Africans were already facing tough financial struggles as a country. With the added pressure of lower incomes because of salary cuts – or no income at all in some cases – it has become an even bigger challenge to make sure our money stretches to the next payday. […]

Over the last couple of months, the topic of investing offshore has created quite a buzz. We have been faced with the question of whether or not investors should be “cashing in” their savings and investing everything offshore countless times. Although times are tough and confidence is low in South Africa, investors must remember to […]

Rapid urbanisation exacerbated by the effects of Covid-19 on an already contracting economy has placed significant strain on metropole housing requirements. The informal housing rental (or backyard rental) sector is transforming as it expands, and utility management is key in the new landlord-tenant relationship. “According to a report for the World Bank, more than 13% of […]

Even as COVID-19 halted the longest economic expansion on record and plunged the world into deep recession, South African investors expect to make an average annual total return of 12.67% – almost 2% higher than the global average predicted returns of 10.9%. This was revealed in the recently released Schroders’ Global Investor Study 2020 – an […]

South African investors have had a challenging time in financial markets, largely due to lacklustre returns from local equities. This is at a time when global equities have done well, and post-apartheid South Africa is going through possibly one of the most challenging times from a political and economic standpoint. The news flow has been […]