More than 165 000 emerging entrepreneurs have benefited from the Micro-MBA programme. It is a 3-month prgramme, beginning with 5 days of classroom-learning, followed by 3 months of mentored application. Developed over 22 years in South Africa, it’s footprint is spreading across the continent.
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Japanese Ambassador, Toshiro Ozawa, speaks on business opportunities available in Africa. He highlights how Japan is interested in doing business with Africa and how trade between the Asia and Africa is growing.
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Produced by: Matlala P. Botolo
Edited by: Marshall Patsanza & Matlala P. Botolo
Camera by: Nkosi Hlomuka
Music by: Xolani Gysman
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Telkom Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week speaker, Jacqui Kew, is a member of the South African Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) team. She is a professional educator, and her main areas of research include small business development, youth studies and entrepreneurship.
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1 out of 10 businesses survive the first five years. How do we keep the doors open? Opening Doors is a new documentary focusing on small business, the challenges, the successes and the people behind them. Entrepreneurship is the life blood of a healthy economy, and ‘Opening Doors’ is a must-see for all entrepreneurs in South Africa. ‘Opening Doors’ is showing 1 day only: 31 March 2011 – book at www.sterkinekor.com or call Ticketline 082 1 6789.
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Campus CEOs Khary and Selena Cuffe talk about Harvard Business School and how they became the official importers of the South African Black Vinters Alliance.
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For more information about Harvard Business School, visit http://www.hbs.edu
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Sinethemba Mafukula, a photgrapher from South Africa shares his experience with the HP LIFE program and how it enabled him to market his passion for photography and develop it into a business.
For more information about HP’s innovative approach to entrepreneurship, please visit:
www.hp.com/go/hplife
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Washington Mvelase, an entrepreneur from South Africa, found a need within his community to connect and communicate, and an internet cafe business was born. HP LIFE helped him learn to manage the operations and finances of his new business.
For more information about HP’s innovative approach to entrepreneurship, please visit: www.hp.com/go/hplife
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SOUTH AFRICA – The Small Enterprise Foundation offers loans and micro finance to small businesses and entrepreneurs in South Africa. Women have been able to make their enterprises grow thanks to the help of this organisation.
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Roy was a student trained by the Dynamic Business Start-Up Project (DBSP) in South Africa. He was trained in March 2004 and continues to run his business today. He started up his business on as little as 7 US Dollars (50 South African Rand). Since making this video, Roy has started his welding and fitting shop, and he has started yet another business. Today, Roy is out of the trap of poverty. For more information go to www.dbsp.co.za, or send an e-mail to chris@dbsp.co.za
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This is what Feko Makara, a YBSA member, thought of one the events and YBSA in general.
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