How Covid-19 Changed this Tanzanian Tea Business
When Tahira Nizari started her social enterprise Kazi Yetu in Tanzania’s bustling city, Dar es Salaam almost two years ago. With family roots in Tanzania, and armed with formal degrees from Dubai and Canada, and experience in economic inclusion in the non-profit development sector, Nizari had extensive research in multiple target markets, both locally and […]
Zimbabwe’s Elaborate Plan to Compensate Farmers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to pull a very big rabbit out of a tiny hat with an agreement to pay roughly $3.5bn in compensation to white farmers who were evicted from their land under the redistribution programme of his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, two decades ago. The main problem with this ruse is that the […]
M-Pesa Shifts to Client-centric Products
M-Pesa is planning a consumer “lifestyle” offering as it seeks to deepen clients’ use of its mobile-money application. The offer, planned within the next 12 months, will probably be launched first in Kenya and then extended to other African markets. The M-Pesa mobile-money service, founded in 2007 by Vodafone and Safaricom, is used by over […]
Lessons for African Ports as Core Hubs in the Global Trade of Dangerous Substances and Waste
The disastrous explosion in Beirut on 4 August 2020, which was reported to have taken at least 135 lives was fuelled by 2,750 tonnes of the highly reactive chemical ammonium nitrate that had been held in the port for nearly seven years. As such, the disaster puts a spotlight on the global trade in hazardous […]
Tricks For Starting A Successful e-Commerce Business In Africa
Although e-commerce has been slow to take off in Africa, the past six months have seen a sharp boom of online shopping across the continent after many businesses were left with no option but to move their operations online. With more than 400 million internet users, Africa has one of the most digitally connected populations in the world, […]
True Historisation – The Best Way To Deal With Legacy Data In An Era Of Digitisation
By Ludwig Dedekind, New Business Sales Executive at T-systems South Africa The ongoing global pandemic has not only irrevocably changed the way businesses operate but has also forced many organisations to re-evaluate and reorganise their IT readiness for doing business in a post-lockdown world. The current crisis has accelerated digital transformation for businesses across the globe, and while […]
Women’s Day 2020: Even A Pandemic Can’t Keep Women Down
By Mosima Selekisho* Director at Signium Africa The 9th of August 2020 marks a very different National Women’s Day for South Africa. This year, our attention is squarely focused on a global health disaster that threatens millions of lives. Yet, for all the obvious negatives, some good is coming from the pandemic, especially in the […]
Obstacles Did Not Stop Magnate Ntombela From Reaching The Top
Now he wants to help others achieve The road to academic success was not always straight for Professor Magnate Ntombela, the energetic Academic and Social Purposes Initiative Director, at private higher education institution MANCOSA. Like others of his age, he had to struggle hard to overcome the hurdles and obstacles that apartheid created for aspiring […]
