Press Releases

September 10, 2019
The meaning of heritage when buying local products

September is Heritage Month and Proudly South African will be hosting a number of events that mark and celebrate our heritage through fashion, music, food and drink. But what does […]

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August 27, 2019
The time has come for financiers to take female entrepreneurs seriously

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 […]

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August 21, 2019
OPINION: Buy local, people who make those R50 T-shirts work in poor conditions

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 […]

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July 23, 2019
OPINION: SA’s furniture industry clawing its way back to its former glory

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 – […]

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July 16, 2019
#SavingsMonth: SA entrepreneurs also struggle under debt

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 […]

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July 2, 2019
Youth Month a real eye-opener

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 […]

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June 19, 2019
Edgars and Jet Proudly Growing Local through its Sustainable Cotton Initiative

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). […]

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June 4, 2019
Give the youth a voice to change SA for the better

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 […]

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May 15, 2019
OPINION: Don’t sit on the fence, sit on local chair

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 […]

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