The South African agriculture sector contributes to only 10% of formal employment. Drought is a severe problem in the country and due to aridity, around 13.5% of the land can be used for crop production, among which only 3% is considered as high potential land. Over...
What lies ahead for the golden child of cryptocurrency in 2018? Since hitting an all-time high of almost USD20 000 per bitcoin in December 2017, the cryptocurrency has almost halved in value over the past month. To put bitcoin’s performance in context of equity market crashes,...
Michael Jordaan and Yatin Narsai launch app-driven bank that offers added control and transparency, with a fresh approach towards banking Bank Zero has been granted a provisional licence after a rigorous in-depth evaluation process by the South African Reserve Bank. The 45% black-owned bank is set to...
2017 can definitely be considered as one crazy, yet interesting year...
Building a business or working in a job is meaningless unless it is done with purpose, knowing that making money is not the purpose, it is a result. Money is the fuel for the engine, not the reason for the journey. But what does it...
As we move further into the post-modern marketing landscape, it is becoming increasingly clear that brands are not owned by the companies from which they originate, but rather with the people who buy them and give them life on a day-to-day basis. As brand owners, agencies,...
The SA Innovation Summit was an explosion of, well, ideas and innovation. One talk that particularly intrigued me was one by Tmara (Target Market Adoption Risk Assessment). The presentation was led by Tmara co-founder, Henning du Preez, who focussed on a different, more effective way for...
All across Africa, populations are growing rapidly. Many people are vulnerable to malnutrition and other food-related diseases, limited healthcare and high rates of unemployment. The result is that more and more people are streaming towards cities hoping to find jobs and earning an income. According to...
In the dangerous online world of hacking and computer viruses, safe storage should be your number one priority when buying cryptocurrency. Different cryptocurrency wallets exist, each with its pros and cons. An online or cloud wallet such as a bitcoin exchange is easy to use on...
Fanie Brink, an independent agricultural economist, has delivered a paper on sustainability of agricultural production at the Annual Women in Agriculture and Agro-processing Summit in Centurion, Pretoria. He says: “The single most important factor that determines the sustainability of agricultural production to provide food security...