Search
Welcome
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
Not a subscriber? Subscribe here
Register Now
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
                       
Careers & Tenders
Newsletters
Subscribe
The Mail & Guardian
      SUBSCRIBE / Support independent journalism                   CAREERS & TENDERS / Visit careers.mg.co.za                   WHATSAPP? / Follow the M&G WhatsApp channel here            
Login / Register

LOGIN

  • News
    • Africa
    • Business
    • Editorial
    • Education
    • Health
    • Motoring
    • National
    • Sci-tech
    • Sport
    • World
  • Thought Leader
  • Politics
  • Green Guardian
  • Friday
  • Features
    • Buthelezi, the King’s Hand
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2023
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2012-2021
    • The Fiscal Cliff
  • Research World
    • Submissions
    • Papers
  • Power of Women 2024
  • Events
    • 200 Young South Africans
    • Greening The Future
    • Power Of Women
      • 2024 Edition
    • Critical Thinking Forum
    • Youth Summit
    • Webinars
  • More..
    • Partners
    • Podcasts
    • Crossword
    • Digital Editions
    • Register
    • WhatsApp Channel
    • Login
    • Lost Password

           

Entrepreneur

Blockchain-based financial reporting has potential to empower SMMEs
Thought Leader
/ 12 May 2025

Blockchain-based financial reporting has potential to empower SMMEs

It can eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming manual audits, creating verifiable financial histories automatically, with minimal cost.

By Yonela Faba
Entrepreneur’s sizzling amadumbe success uplifts women
Business
/ 2 November 2023

Entrepreneur’s sizzling amadumbe success uplifts women

A KwaZulu-Natal businesswoman has discovered a winning formula, making amadumbe crisps as well as cassava flour and porridge

By Lyse Comins
How to unlock the untapped potential of SA’s women entrepreneurs
Thought Leader
/ 2 September 2023

How to unlock the untapped potential of SA’s women entrepreneurs

The journey to empowering women’s entrepreneurship will not be achieved by any one isolated approach

By Thobile Radebe and Mark Smith
Entrepreneurs won’t create enough jobs without a rethink in how they are supported
Opinion
/ 1 November 2022

Entrepreneurs won’t create enough jobs without a rethink in how they are supported

A systems thinking approach is needed to help us understand why the playing fields are uneven, and how to even them up

By Phumlani Nkontwana
It’s critical to give Africa’s young people the skills to be entrepreneurial
Opinion
/ 11 October 2022

It’s critical to give Africa’s young people the skills to be entrepreneurial

It requires more than being technologically competent; the basics of establishing networks and pitching to investors can be taught but it takes time to do so

By Kabelo Mothoa
Future Females launches a new platform for women entrepreneurs
Friday
/ 9 August 2022

Future Females launches a new platform for women entrepreneurs

The company is introducing a course that includes the basics of entrepreneurship and how to run a business.

By Dimpho Masopha
Why some South African businesses are succeeding despite the odds
Opinion
/ 16 July 2022

Why some South African businesses are succeeding despite the odds

‘Economy agnostic entrepreneurs’ are experiencing revenue growth even as the economy shrinks — but they need better access to venture capital and international markets

By Alison Collier
Investing in Africa’s digital transformation
Africa
/ 17 February 2022

Investing in Africa’s digital transformation

The continent could reap rewards through digitisation and adopting new technologies

By Sundar Pichai
Q&A Sessions: ‘I am a product of opportunities’ — Theo Baloyi
National
/ 11 December 2021

Q&A Sessions: ‘I am a product of opportunities’ — Theo Baloyi

Theo Baloyi, motivated by his love for sneakers and his goal of reducing unemployment, founded Bathu in 2015. He shares his transition from corporate employee to entrepreneur

By Tshegofatso Mathe
Bokang Mosala: ‘I am an entrepreneur at heart’
National
/ 4 November 2021

Bokang Mosala: ‘I am an entrepreneur at heart’

Businessman Bokang Mosala has, from a young age, chased financial independence. In high school, he sold sweets and at university he embarked on various business ventures that failed. This led him to a career in the banking sector

By Tshegofatso Mathe
So you want to be a social entrepreneur?
Article
/ 17 February 2020

So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

Do the research first; it will save money and time later

By Staff Reporter
Where are Eastern Cape’s black entrepreneurs?
Article
/ 22 October 2019

Where are Eastern Cape’s black entrepreneurs?

Proudly South African trip took journalists to companies creating jobs – but they’re white-owned

By Kwanele Sosibo
Business learning’s real-world value
Article
/ 4 October 2019

Business learning’s real-world value

MBA holders continue to out-earn their peers; in addition, they foster innovation and shape society

By James Nash
Four ways to give township entrepreneurs a much-needed boost
Article
/ 26 August 2019

Four ways to give township entrepreneurs a much-needed boost

If they are going to be the job creators that policymakers hope for, a major overhaul of mindsets and infrastructure will be necessary

By Elvis M Sekhaolelo
Three ways the youth can act to make South Africa a better place
Article
/ 4 May 2019

Three ways the youth can act to make South Africa a better place

Given the challenges millennials face, these initiatives could go a long way in assuring them that a bright future is possible

By Staff Reporter
Women entrepreneurs make it with WRC’s support
Article
/ 23 November 2018

Women entrepreneurs make it with WRC’s support

Refilwe Lesufi says there is an urgent need to create off-grid solutions in rural areas

By Advertorial
A company of one and it’s run, run, run
Article
/ 28 September 2018

A company of one and it’s run, run, run

When Simbongile Ndlangisa ditched her nine-to-five job to start her own PR business, she thought, great, now I can sit and watch series all day

By Gus Silber
The sweet scent of trans success
Article
/ 2 August 2017

The sweet scent of trans success

Trans women battle 
to find jobs, but some do manage to escape being a sex worker

By Carl Collison
Orphaned at 13, she has cared for her siblings her whole adult life
Article
/ 2 June 2016

Orphaned at 13, she has cared for her siblings her whole adult life

Edith Chikwana now sells goods on Jo’burg’s streets to feed and educate her brothers and sister.

By Mosibudi Ratlebjane
Every fledgling small business must learn to fly
Article
/ 2 July 2015

Every fledgling small business must learn to fly

Business incubators are not infallible, but many really do bring out the best in a new enterprise.

By Thalia Holmes
Where’s the money, honey?
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Where’s the money, honey?

The Mail & Guardian does some homework for potential franchisees on funding options.

By Staff Reporter
200 YSA 2013: An eco-friendly entrepreneur
Videos
/ 10 June 2013

200 YSA 2013: An eco-friendly entrepreneur

VIDEO: Sizwe Nzima is an entrepreneur assisting his Khayelitsha community by delivering medicine by bicycle. He is an M&G 200 Young South African.

By Staff Reporter
YSA Final auditions: Ludwick Marishane
Videos
/ 7 June 2012

YSA Final auditions: Ludwick Marishane

Young entrepreneur Ludwick Marishane pitches his ‘Dry Bath’ idea without using words ahead of the M&G’s 200 Young South Africans.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 2 December 2009

A toolkit for any business

A local online resource is providing much-needed
information for potential business owners.

By Martina Fuchs and Enjy Kiwan
No image available
Article
/ 1 December 2009

Starting a business? First find yourself a mentor

Entrepreneurs typically set out to use mentors as a substitute for their own lack of experience.

By Advertorial
No image available
Article
/ 1 December 2009

Turning ideas into cash

Universities need to be realistic about what they can earn by patenting and commercialising research, writes Barrie Terblanche.

By Barrie Terblanche
No image available
Article
/ 1 December 2009

Hot ideas

Two academics have found that creating a platinum smelter is easier than taking it to the market, writes
Barrie Terblanche.

By Barrie Terblanche
No image available
Article
/ 20 August 2009

‘Scales fell from my eyes’

Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.

By Barrie Terblanche
No image available
Article
/ 19 August 2009

A leap in the dark

At the age of 45, with two-year-old twins at home, John Gilmour resigned from his comfortable job as a private-school principal in Cape Town.

By Barrie Terblanche

MAIL & GUARDIAN

ABOUT

About
Contact
Advertise

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Subscribe
Newsletters

FOLLOW

WhatsApp Channel
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
Threads

FLAGSHIP EVENTS

200 Young South Africans
Power Of Women
Greening The Future

LEGAL & CORRECTIONS

Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
Ethics & Social Media Policy

RESOURCES

Mail & Guardian Careers
Property for sale


Mail & Guardian

© 2025 The Mail & Guardian. All rights reserved.

  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
body::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 7px; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-track { border-radius: 10px; background: #f0f0f0; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { border-radius: 50px; background: #dfdbdb }