By Georgina Joy Read There’s a dangerous idea in business: if you build it, they will come. It is a popularized sayings – but, it is too narrow. I used to believe it too — until I realised as I was building my business, I was building for myself, not...
By Raindren Moodley, Executive: Advisory Services at Ariston Global South African entrepreneurs have a problem. How do they grow their businesses when the country accounts for just 0.5% of global GDP and is growing at a sluggish pace of less than 1%...
I’ve been building, selling, and hustling in some form since I could hold a paintbrush or a flag toothpick. Around age 7 or 8, on holiday with my family in Sodwana during the Olympics. I made tiny country flags, stuck them onto toothpicks, and walked...
Global Entrepreneur Day is a reminder of both the opportunities and the obstacles facing business owners in South Africa. For local entrepreneur Adriaan Grové, the founder of Entegral and MyProperty, the path to building has been shaped as much by...
By Gerhard Hartman, VP Medium Segment, Sage Africa and Middle East As we are deep into 2025, it is pleasing to see that most small and medium businesses (SMBs) in South Africa are optimistic about their futures. Our latest annual ‘Small Business, Big...
Opinion by Matsie Mpshe, Founder and Managing Director at The Transformation Firm and Founder of the SMME Empowerment Summit South Africa has over 2.5 million small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs), employing nearly 10 million people. Yet, many...
According to the SA MSME Access to Finance Report 2025, the number of black-owned, women-owned and youth-led businesses have increased since 2018, and are now driving a much larger share of MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) funding...
For generations, South Africa’s small and medium-sized businesses have been the quiet engine behind our economy, creating jobs, supporting families, and building communities. Yet many of these businesses now face a silent crisis: as their founders...
While South African entrepreneurs are growing increasingly sophisticated in planning for long-term growth and succession, a critical and often overlooked insurance gap is leaving a vast number of small and medium-sized businesses dangerously exposed...
