While its not a requirement for a founder to regularly use his product or service, the rule certainly doesn’t apply to Sihle Magubane, founder of Sihle’s Brew, South Africa’s first black-owned coffee...
NetFlorist is South Africa’s largest sameday gift and flower delivery site, the brand was founded in 1999 by Ryan Bacher, Lawrence Brick, and Jonathan Hackner. Long before it became the country’s go-to online...
ActionSA leader, Herman Mashaba, came from the humble streets of Hammanskraal to become one of South Africa’s wealthiest and best-known entrepreneurs. After being forced to drop out of university in his early 20s, Mashaba...
Opportunities are everywhere: while stuck in traffic, two best friends — Elan Band and Jon Berkowitz — with a passion for entrepreneurship, media, and tech — came up with the idea of “moveable billboards” in...
A child’s birthday celebration, a kitchen full of hungry preteens and a spontaneous decision, all led to the existence of Browns Corn Dogs — the brand was launched in 2019 by husband & wife, Mabel and Wale...
Now the 100 thousand trillion rand question, “why’s reading books important??”….. …..of all the skills you’ll ever learn as you grow up, arguably none are more important than the ability to...
American Swiss is South Africa’s largest retail jewellery business. This article addresses the strategies and business practices that succeeded and failed as the company expanded from one store founded in Cape...
After her mother in law told her the marula oil can remove after birth stretch marks, Portia Mngomezulu got inspired to start her own Portia M products in 2011. As you’d expect, the experience was daunting to say the least...
The founder of Dumax Paints, Kagiso Nkomo, kind of revealed how much the paint brand is worth. Dumax Paints Dumax Paints is a wholly black owned paint manufacturing company based in Bloemfontein. The company manufactures...
The Story & Pride Behind One of South Africa’s Favorite Snacks: Simba Katlego Maphai, co-founder of Yoco, was part of the incubation team sent to Nigeria by his previous employer(RocketInternet) to set up jumia...