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SME Funding Summit speakers announced

SMEs

SME Funding Summit speakers announced

Issued by SME South Africa 13 Feb 2026

How targeted collaborative support can drive growth in SA's SME sector

SMEs

How targeted collaborative support can drive growth in SA's SME sector

Issued by Edge Growth 22 Jan 2026

Agricultural exports from Africa are not doing well. Four ways to change that

Agriculture

Agricultural exports from Africa are not doing well. Four ways to change that

Lilac Nachum 30 Dec 2025

The digital transformation reshaping SA's vibrant informal sector

Informal Retailing

The digital transformation reshaping SA's vibrant informal sector

14 Nov 2025

(L to r:) Mark Elliott, division president, Africa at Mastercard and Kenyan ambassador, Philip Thigo (Image supplied)

4th Industrial Revolution

The transformative power of AI to create jobs in Africa

13 Aug 2025

Source: © es-Cape Town

Affordable & Social Housing

PCG help local developers to build affordable homes

12 May 2025

Source: Sameer Kumandan, managing director of SearchWorks360.

Finance

Why microlenders are under the regulatory spotlight

Sameer Kumandan 24 Apr 2025

Source: © Bizcommunity The inaugural SSA MMA Smarties Awards awarded 51 Awards, with 19 Gold, 19 Silver and 13 Bronze Awards

Marketing

Inaugural SSA MMA Smarties' winners announced, the TFG named Brand of the Year

9 Dec 2024

Source: Shadi Chauke, Sanlam’s group executive for market development and sustainability.

Finance

Sanlam's new leader: Shadi Chauke to drive sustainability and growth in Africa

13 Nov 2024

Pictures: Aida Diarra, senior vice president and head of sub-Saharan Africa at Visa with Clayton Hayward, group CEO of EFTCorp. Together they have formed a five year partnership to enhance financial inclusion in Africa (Image supplied)

Fintech

Visa invests $1bn to grow financial inclusion in Africa, partners with EFTCorp

28 Oct 2024

Pictured: Chantelle Burrows. Image supplied.

Behind the Selfie

#BehindtheSelfie: Chantelle Burrows, executive head of marketing at Atlas Finance

Aa-isha Hassiem 15 Oct 2024

The Finternet: A new global financial system could be closer than we think

Fintech

The Finternet: A new global financial system could be closer than we think

Briana Marbury, Issued by Semaphore Communications 19 Sep 2024

Financial Services

Hloolo platform bridges funding gap for green SMEs

16 Aug 2024

Small businesses can help South Africa fight unemployment if they get proper support – study

Entrepreneurship

Small businesses can help South Africa fight unemployment if they get proper support – study

Karikari Amoa-Gyarteng, Shepherd Dhliwayo 22 May 2024

Source: Supplied. Nils Rode, chief investment officer, private Aassets, at Schroders.

Economy

Private markets outlook – it’s time for optimism

Nils Rode 13 Feb 2024

Food security: The battle of narratives and the role of private sector investment

Food Security

Food security: The battle of narratives and the role of private sector investment

6 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied.

Banking

Is Mauritian banking transforming sub-Saharan Africa's economic landscape internationally?

Thavin Audit 4 Oct 2023

Source: Twitter/@BlockchainZA

Fintech

#AfricaMonth: Why Web3 needs Africa and what you can do about it?

Katja Hamilton 15 May 2023

New R88m SAB Foundation fund to fuel small business growth in SA

How To Start Up

New R88m SAB Foundation fund to fuel small business growth in SA

18 Apr 2023

Responsible lending as a step up for SMEs

Funding

Responsible lending as a step up for SMEs

Issued by Business Partners Limited 13 Jan 2023

Innovative double-storey housing project for Khayelitsha

Affordable & Social Housing

Innovative double-storey housing project for Khayelitsha

Marecia Damons 21 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied. Heather Lowe, head of SME development at FNB.

Banking

FNB injects R200m into SME development

8 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied.

Financial Services

8th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit: promoting digital innovation within the African fiscal sector

3 Jun 2022

Source: Pixabay

Banking

The award winners for Best Application of Agent-based Simulation in Islamic Finance

1 Feb 2022

Source: Mondi. Minister of finance, Enoch Godongwana

Economy

Finance Ministry appoints three women to key positions

10 Dec 2021

Source: ©everythingpossible

Banking

Banking: a human experience

1 Oct 2021

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Agri Tech

Ghana's rice farmers need finance for new technologies, but banks don't trust them

Philip Tetteh Quarshie and Evan Fraser 27 Sep 2021

#WomensMonth: Yaliwe Soko, chair of the United Africa Blockchain Association

Technology

#WomensMonth: Yaliwe Soko, chair of the United Africa Blockchain Association

Imran Salie 20 Aug 2021

Source: ©Olga Yastremska

Banking

Bank branches will be dead in 5 years

29 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Banking

Nigeria is making progress with financial inclusion: here's how

Emmanuel Mogaji 20 May 2021

Premal Ranchod, head of ESG research at Alexander Forbes Investments

Economy

South African green economic recovery blueprint

19 Oct 2020

Thuli Madonsela and Vusi Thembekwayo to join UCT GSB annual Alumni Reunion Weekend

Higher Education

Thuli Madonsela and Vusi Thembekwayo to join UCT GSB annual Alumni Reunion Weekend

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 19 Oct 2020

Small businesses are critical to SA's economy post Covid-19

SMEs

Small businesses are critical to SA's economy post Covid-19

Deon Mbaile 25 May 2020

Diversifying approaches to conserving nature

Responsible Tourism

Diversifying approaches to conserving nature

Mucha Mkono, Jason I. Ransom, Katarzyna Nowak and Patrick O. Onyango 7 Jan 2020

Getting women in the driver's seat of Africa's agribusiness revolution

Agribusiness

Getting women in the driver's seat of Africa's agribusiness revolution

Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya 25 Nov 2019

Social grants provide an important cushion amid poverty in South Africa. shutterstock

Food, Water & Energy Security

What some entrepreneurial welfare beneficiaries do to improve their lives

12 Sep 2019

Police officers are seen in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Lagos police recently arrested publisher Agba Jalingo, who has been charged by federal authorities with treason. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Media Freedom

Nigerian publisher charged with treason

9 Sep 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Media Freedom

Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo detained without charge

4 Sep 2019

‘It’ll never catch on!’ NIKS ADS

Banking

Libra: Facebook's cryptocurrency will not help the billions of people currently excluded from banks

Kamini Gupta 1 Jul 2019

$250m World Bank loan to boost access to affordable housing in Kenya

Affordable & Social Housing

$250m World Bank loan to boost access to affordable housing in Kenya

6 May 2019

Scaling e-commerce in Africa

E-commerce

Scaling e-commerce in Africa

Dean McCoubrey 13 Feb 2019

A motorcyclist has his vehicle loaded with hands of matoke - ©Panos

Agriculture

Q&A: Transforming agriculture with tech scale-up

Baraka Rateng' 8 Jan 2019

Ahmed Banderker, chief executive of Sanlam Business Development

Trends

#BizTrends2019: The rise of insurtech

7 Jan 2019

Transforming the African agribusiness sector: Tech, transparency hold key to inclusive growth

Agribusiness

Transforming the African agribusiness sector: Tech, transparency hold key to inclusive growth

Frédéric Massé 4 Dec 2018

Habitat for Humanity addresses Africa's unique housing challenges at local leadership conference

Affordable & Social Housing

Habitat for Humanity addresses Africa's unique housing challenges at local leadership conference

25 Oct 2018

Sunil Kaushal, CEO, Africa & Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank

Fintech

Africa rewrites the rules in the banking industry

Sunil Kaushal 17 Oct 2018