24 February 2021 | Building Business, Mamelodi
The unfolding story of Gugu Makhubu “I knew this is who I was going to become. This is me. I love helping people. I want people to become better versions of themselves. I want them to reach greater heights, do more and be more,” says Gugu Makhubu, Founder...
19 December 2020 | Building Business, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
Gloria Mashigo’s journey as a chef is both unexpected and inspiring – with intriguing highs, agonizing lows and heart-warming in-betweens. But what drives this chef to create cakes of impeccable taste and quality? Walking into her premises and looking at...
14 December 2020 | Building Business, Mamelodi, Proud of my Town
Guest blogger, Lesego Masethe, shares the story of the second-place winner in this year’s Ranyaka Building Business competition held in Mamelodi, Tshwane. While there is no clear definition for the term entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, what is common in all...
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...
