Entrepreneurship

NYDA to Offer Free Grants to Entrepreneurs

Friday 17 May, 2013 - 13:32

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) says it will start dishing out free money to youth entrepreneurs in the near future.

NYDA chairperson, Yershen Pillay, says that grant finance will range between R1 000 and R100 000.

Pillay states that the NYDA will only offer loan finance to young entrepreneurs, adding that, "Instead there will be grant finance in the form of micro-finance grants for survivalist youth entrepreneurship and cooperative grants for greater participation of youth in the cooperative sector.

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enke: Make Your Mark: Youth Liaison

Monday 13 May, 2013 - 13:04

enke: Make Your Mark is a youth leadership and entrepreneurship organisation. Founded in 2009, enke has been growing steadily over the past four years and is now seeking to dramatically accelerate growth. enke has worked with over 600 young people from across South Africa in this period.

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BMF to Develop SMMEs

Friday 5 April, 2013 - 13:29

The Black Management Forum (BMF) has launched the small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) division, which aims to attract and develop emerging entrepreneurs.

BMF managing director, Nicholas Maweni, says the division will provide services relating to accounting, business management, web presence, letters of demand, labour issues and implementation of a payroll system.

Maweni says the SMMEs division will not target small hawkers but professional SMMEs that will be worried about having an online presence.

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ASEN: Marketing and Communications Assistant

Wednesday 27 February, 2013 - 14:29

The African Social Entrepreneurs Network (ASEN) is a national membership organisation for social entrepreneurs, people who are passionate about addressing social and environmental challenges and those inspired by them. We promote social entrepreneurship nationally and represent social entrepreneurs in the media and online. Through our online platform we provide access to latest tools, resources, training, up-to-date information on current initiatives and trends in and around social entrepreneurship.

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Trias South Africa: Country Director

Monday 11 February, 2013 - 15:05

Trias, a Belgian development organisation, supports entrepreneurial people in twelve countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In collaboration with 95 partner organisations, Trias helps to create enabling conditions for small scale entrepreneurship and family agriculture. Trias is a movement NGO - it is backed by three rural and three entrepreneurial Member Based Organisations (MBOs) and by a larger network which supports the vision of Trias in Flanders. In line with this identity, Trias’s main strategy is strengthening MBOs of farmers and entrepreneurs in the South.

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enke: Make Your Mark: Public Relations and Communication Internship

Monday 19 November, 2012 - 15:43

enke: Make Your Mark is a youth leadership and entrepreneurship organisation. Founded in 2009, enke has been growing steadily over the past 3.5 years and is now seeking to dramatically accelerate growth. enke has worked with over 600 young people from across South Africa in this period.

enke: Make Your Mark seeks to recruit two Project Interns, based in Johannesburg.

Do you want to join a close-knit, inspiring team that’s on a mission to create a movement of young, audacious rebels who will change the world? Are you a graduate who is passionate about youth development?

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enke: Make Your Mark: 2013 Project Internships

Thursday 15 November, 2012 - 14:57

enke: Make Your Mark seeks to recruit two Project Interns, based in Johannesburg.

Want to join a close-knit, inspiring team that’s on a mission to create a movement of young, audacious rebels who will change the world? Are you a graduate who is passionate about youth development?

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The Entrepreneurial Revolution - Moving from Alchemy to Science

Tuesday 13 November, 2012 - 7:08

The growing necessity for fast tracking our economic development in South Africa and the pivotal importance of entrepreneurship in achieving this has led to recent calls for an entrepreneurial revolution in this country. This sense of proactive urgency is to be encouraged, yet such calls can be undermined when we lack a clear understanding of the tools for such a revolution. Part of this is symptomatic of a broader entrepreneurship challenge.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week Commemorated

Monday 12 November, 2012 - 16:22

Youth entrepreneurs in Cape Town have joined like-minded young people from around the world in the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) programme currently under way in the city.

The initiative, which is in place in 117 countries, drives a wide range of programmes to develop, enhance and encourage young people's involvement in enterprise creation with the aim of reducing unemployment among the youth of the world.

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Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy: Researchers / Research Assistants

Sunday 11 November, 2012 - 11:02

The Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy (CSESE) is a pioneering and ground-breaking initiative of the Faculty of Management at the University of Johannesburg. The centre promotes social entrepreneurship and the social economy in South Africa and on the African continent.

CSESE seeks to appoint Researchers/Research Assistants, based in Johannesburg.

This is a great opportunity to do research in the social economy and several other opportunities.