14 December 2020 | Building Business, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
Guest blogger, Lesego Masethe shares the story of the first place winner in the Ranyaka Building Business Social Enterprise competition for 2020. Given Maboela’s Flex Internet Café in Stoffel Park, an informal settlement situated in Mamelodi, east of...
3 December 2020 | Boitekong, Fix Your Space, Kanyamazane, Land & Property, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
An old tyre, a few discarded plastic shopping bags, a two-liter plastic cooldrink bottle and enough soil to fill the tyre to create a little vegetable garden – this is what you need to create what Steven Barnard from NuNet calls the “Garden of Life”,...
16 November 2020 | Boitekong, Building Business, Kanyamazane, Mamelodi, Paarl, Proud of my Town, Stellenbosch
The year 2020 upended the global economy, bringing disruption and, in many cases, devastation at mass scale. Small, medium- and micro enterprises (SMMEs) as well as survivalist businesses have been especially hard hit. During the course of this year, the Nedbank Proud...
10 October 2020 | Building Business, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
What if a business could do so much more than generate a revenue? What if, at the same time, a business could solve pressing social problems and make the world a better place? This was the challenge facing the twenty participants in a Social Entrepreneurship...
13 September 2020 | Boitekong, Cloetesville, Dwarsrivier Valley, Gqeberha, Jamestown, Kanyamazane, Kayamandi, Klapmuts, Kylemore, Lantana, Magaliesburg, Mamelodi, Mbombela, Paarl, Polokwane, Proud of my Town, Rustenburg, Stellenbosch, Tshwane
Over the past five months, the Proud of my Town (PoMT) programme has invested over R1 million towards a host of relief and recovery interventions in 13 communities across seven provinces. Ranyaka has been rolling out the multi-faceted PoMT programme in a growing...
2 July 2020 | Boitekong, Building Business, Kanyamazane, Magaliesburg, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town, Stellenbosch
Recovery and Relief Programme for Community Entrepreneurs The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted the South African economy. Thousands of micro, survivalist and small enterprises are amongst those who currently find themselves in a dire position. In response to...
