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...
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...
23 September 2020 | Building Business, Kayamandi, Proud of my Town, Stellenbosch
Starting out his working life as a performing artist on the stage of the dinner theatre, Amazink, in Kayamandi township, Stellenbosch, you can just imagine how Samkela “Teddy” Mhlakaza can tell a really good story! So it comes as no surprise that what gets...
27 August 2020 | Building Business, Stellenbosch
Davene Pool grew up in Idas Valley and, in her words, was far from being a ‘girly-girl’. Growing up in a house with only boys, she remembers a happy childhood and being spoilt by all members of her family. ‘When you look good, you feel good’...
27 August 2020 | Building Business, Land & Property, Stellenbosch
Local contractors are invited to quote for the refurbishment of the old Victoria Street clinic in Stellenbosch. Ranyaka was awarded a ten-year lease by the Stellenbosch Municipality in 2019 to transform the disused clinic building into an entrepreneurial development...