BUILDING BUSINESS | REFLECTIONS ON 2020 AND THE WAY FORWARD
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...
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BUILDING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER
Ranyaka is excited to announce that BUCO Hardware, a division of The Building Company, is embarking on a journey with us as we tackle Fix Your Space and Land & Property projects that will help create places where people can prosper – in every sense of the word....
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FROM PROFIT TO PURPOSE
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...
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SPORT CHANGES LIVES
Forty players from the Kanyamazane Hockey Club in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga Province are the proud owners of brand-new uniforms following a sponsorship by the Proud of my Town programme. Each of the four coaches also received tracksuits and PoMT will also be sponsoring...
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NEDBANK GREENBACKS SUPPORTS PROUD OF MY TOWN
We are incredibly excited to announce that the Nedbank Greenbacks Programme now also makes it possible for clients to support the Proud of my Town initiative. What is the Greenbacks programme?Nedbank Greenbacks is a money management programme that encourages clients...
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MEET THE MAN BEHIND THE PEOPLE’S BRAND
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 him most...
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R1 MILLION MILESTONE FOR POMT COVID-19 RELIEF
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...
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WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?
Over the past four years, Nedbank's Proud of my Town (PoMT) programme has invested over R1 million towards supporting Early Childhood Development centres. With the ECD sector hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and a nationwide lockdown, PoMT made it possible for us...
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ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL
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'Fate had other plans,...
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INVITATION TO QUOTE – STELLENBOSCH ECONOMIC HUB
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...
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WHERE PERSISTENCE MEETS A PASSION FOR FASHION
Walking into the converted structure that is home to Yeyethu Designer Studio is rather like walking into an old-fashioned sweet shop. You are greeted by a riot of colour – Shweshwe fabrics lie scattered across the worktops, patterns are pinned to the walls, shelves...
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FROM DAY ZERO TO HERO
How Day Zero inspired a Hero: The story of Asiphe ‘Sips’ Makhumalo - a young black woman, not only building a name for herself in a traditionally male-dominated water sector - but also a firecracker with a burning desire to see a greater representation of youth, in...
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