by Dianne Bayley | Sep 17, 2019 | Innovation
Entrepreneurship has long been considered part of the solution to high youth unemployment. However, the predicament of South Africa’s unemployed youth is a very precise one. They are hungry for help to learn to start and grow small businesses, but they have difficulty...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 10, 2019 | Fintech
Despite positive advances in financial inclusion on the continent, 95% of all consumer payments in Africa are still made in cash, writes Mark Elliott, Division President of Mastercard Southern Africa. Why is this such a bad thing? For the people and microentrepreneurs...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 9, 2019 | Security and Legal
Patenting an idea is not the only way to protect it – a simple and elegant solution exists that has widespread application but is particularly valuable for inventors and entrepreneurs in the information and technology fields. This is the opinion of Escrow Europe South...
by Dianne Bayley | Jul 27, 2019 | Sustainability
The IT issues facing small businesses (SBs) are no less challenging than those facing an enterprise, yet as an industry IT continues to complicate the sales pitch and oversell technology solutions to SMEs, a market craving innovation. It is with this in mind that...
by Dianne Bayley | May 6, 2019 | Workplace 2020
From 29 April until 4 May 2019, the payroll industry recommitted itself to increasing the global payroll professional’s skill level through education, training and networking opportunities. The second annual Global Payroll Week, the brainchild of the Global Payroll...
