178 Trevor Gosling, co-founder and CEO of Lula Lula has secured R340-million in local currency funding from Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, FMO. This investment will help expand access to finance for micro,…
Category: Business
Most business owners don’t worry about IT
166 The author, SevenC MD Graeme Millar Most small business owners don’t think about IT as often as they do about customers, cash flow, staff, suppliers and deadlines. IT sits quietly in…
Domestic workers to get an almost R2 increase. Here’s the new wage for 2026
148 Minister of Employment and Labour Nomakhosazana Meth has announced a R1.44 increase to the national minimum wage. Meth on Tuesday said the increase will benefit all workers, including vulnerable farm workers…
Why cloud projects fail – and how three days can fix this
168 Many journeys to the cloud hit a wall because of culture, not technology. Industry data suggests that up to 70% of cloud adoption friction is non-technical, instead being affected by organisational…
XLink raises the bar for mission-critical networks
198 XLink has set the benchmark for enterprise-grade connectivity in South Africa, announcing a full 12 months of proven uninterrupted network uptime throughout 2025. This milestone achievement underscores XLink’s position as a…
US Senate passes Agoa, sends it to president for signature
175 Although Agoa passed another hurdle on its path to becoming law, not everybody believes that South Africa’s name will appear in the final version. The African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa),…
Why stablecoins are booming in Africa
182 Yellow Card MD Lasbery Oludimu Stablecoin adoption is surging across Africa as both businesses and consumers find use cases that assist in speeding up and lowering the cost of transacting. Speaking…
Prosus inks three-year AWS deal to scale AI across its global portfolio
163 Image for illustration purposes only Naspers subsidiary Prosus has signed a three-year global partnership agreement with Amazon Web Services to scale the use of artificial intelligence across its portfolio companies in…
Mahindra backs SKD production to attract major auto investment to SA
191 But says it will be the first to blow the whistle on firms exploiting loopholes to avoid SKD component import duties. Mahindra South Africa, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian automotive…
Vodacom’s real growth story isn’t mobile
181 For years, Vodacom Group was viewed primarily as a telecommunications operator with an interesting side business in mobile money. That framing no longer holds: the numbers in its latest quarterly trading…