South African female entrepreneurs are growing in numbers, but too many continue to battle to get access to funding, making the sustainability of their start-ups a struggle. Many do not […]

It’s Women’s Month and I am wearing pants for the first time in years. Not just any pair of pants, a tight-fitting, high-rise linen pair that accentuate every single part […]

Last week we held one of our most successful industry-specific engagements to date. Around 200 stakeholders from the furniture sector – manufacturers, raw material suppliers, corporate buyers and retailers – […]

July is savings Month, and much has been written on the subject of South Africans’ poor culture of putting money aside, especially following the SA Reserve Bank’s announcement recently that […]

The past four weeks, during which I gave my column over to young people to acknowledge Youth Month, was quite an eye-opener. We chose four diverse contributors with very different […]

Edcon, South Africa’s largest non-food retailer, made a commitment in 2016 to a localised cotton initiative – from ‘farm to shelf’ – by participating in the Sustainable Cotton Cluster (SCC). […]

I remember when I was in matric with dreams of having a house, a car and a family by the time I was 25. But once I got my first […]

I drove past a new development in the northern suburbs recently and was struck by the boast that the units’ kitchens were “wholly imported from Italy”. This goes back to […]

When one of our own captures the attention or imagination of the world we immediately sit up and take note, congratulating not only that person but ourselves for acknowledging their […]