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Patience Panashe
Patience Panashe is a researcher with Birguid, a strategy, finance and enterprise development agency to Africa's private and public sector organisations.
The scramble for Kenya: what South Africa’s banking expansion means for African business
At the start of 2026, four of South Africa’s five largest banks were simultaneously pursuing acquisition targets in Kenya. Understanding why this convergence is happening, and…
What Capitec’s 25th year tells the rest of Africa’s banks
Capitec Bank recently published results that were, by any measure, remarkable. Headline earnings rose 23% to R16.8 billion for the year ended February 2026. Return on equity came…
What does entrepreneurship really mean in the African context?
What works in one place and for one group of people will not necessarily work elsewhere.
Domestic travel is key to saving the tourism sector
Staying ahead of the digital curve, including local communities in tourism offerings and promoting domestic tourism can help the ailing tourism sector survive and thrive
Domestic tourism to the rescue
The South African tourism sector’s recovery is up to us, because local travel can save the sector
An African free trade area is in our sights
Successes and failures from other initiative such as the European Union will be instructive, but much work must be done before the African Continental Trade Area becomes a reality