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SA Express employees in R250m crowdfunding bid to buy their airline

Business Thando Maeko - 18 Sep 2020

Amid the overnight, worldwide crash of the air travel industry, a group of retrenched SA Express employees have an ambitious plan to raise R250-million in seed funding to buy the cash-strapped airline.

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Wanelisa Xaba on using crowdfunding to pay fees: ‘I got a lot of shaming from people’

Article Staff Reporter - 3 May 2017

Some students have turned to online crowdfunding to raise funds for their studies.

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White tears: The most valuable currency

Article Staff Reporter - 4 May 2016

Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress.

Italian pupils launch crowdfunding campaign to buy island

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Feb 2016

A class of children in Italy is enlisting the help of their peers to buy the uninhabited island of Budelli so it remains 'untouched and Italian'.

Kickstarter is not all good endings, sometimes it’s scams

Article Liron Segev - 4 Apr 2014

After backing a successful Kickstarter project, but not seeing the product in development, Liron Segev believes he may have been the victim of a scam.

Could crowd funding be the answer to hunting down Joseph Kony?

Africa Sapa Ap - 6 Nov 2013

Can you crowd fund the hunt for a war criminal on the run deep in Africa's jungles?

Milking cash cows is hard work

Article Thalia Holmes - 18 Oct 2013

Crowdfunding is a wake-up call for those who think you can put an idea out there, sit back and watch the money roll in.

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