Founder and managing director of redAcademy, Jessica Hawkey, is the woman entrepreneur highlighted in today’s article. She shares on pioneering a new way for South African matriculants to enter skilled careers in tech and software development specifically.

It is my privilege to engage with so many interesting leaders and entrepreneurs. One of these is Anton Cuyler, the CEO of the Sozo Foundation. 

Competition helps raise the entrepreneurial aspirations of young people through appropriate service providers.

Today I am sharing on one of the business incubators in the Western Cape. It is called the Daily Grind and is led and pioneered by Dominique Adonis. Here is their story: The Daily Grind…

I am privileged to be the training facilitator in the City of Cape Town’s #YouthStartCT competition. A hundred young people will gather for business training mid-week, and pitch their business idea or existing business on a…

Vince Moshebe, is a young creative entrepreneur (25) that I met and mentored at the Genesis Incubator under the Sozo Foundation last year. He has invented a portable power station (Tsepo) with many interesting features….

I am convinced that one of the key attributes that budding and existing entrepreneurs should display is the strength of resilience. I would go further and say that learning about resilience is an incredible set…

I celebrate 10 years of writing articles for the community newspapers this year and it has been a privilege! I hope to push the envelope a little and continue to add value to aspiring and…

Last year, my wife and I visited our daughter and son-in-law in Melbourne, Australia. One of their favourite past times is to visit the many bespoke coffee shops in this metropolitan city. It got me…

In 2019, the nation held its collective breath as Siya Kolisi led the Springboks to a final against the highly favoured English Roses, and how wonderful was it then, to celebrate that clear victory that…