by Trudi Makhaya | Nov 20, 2017 | competition, economic development, economic freedom, economic policy, enterprise development, entrepreneurship, Events, Featured, finance, funding, innovation, insights, inspiration, Investment, media, Opportunities, public policy, social enterprise, start-ups, wealth, youth entrepreneurship
The concept of social enterprise has gone mainstream over the past few years, reflecting a desire for new ways to create economic value in a manner that delivers measurable social impact. This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week kicked off on 10 November at the...
by Trudi Makhaya | Jan 11, 2017 | economic freedom, governance, inspiration
We enter 2017 as a nation in trouble: from submerged rage, from politesse that hid raw racism, from complacency, from unfulfilled dreams. Last year was not pretty. But is this atmosphere of pessimism, hand-wringing, finger-pointing and lamenting justified? I don’t...
by Trudi Makhaya | Jun 3, 2016 | credit rating, economic freedom, fiscal policy
Extracts from S&P statement: Low GDP growth is putting South Africa’s economic metrics at risk and could eventually weaken the government’s social contract with business and labor. Rising political tensions are accentuating vulnerabilities in...
by Trudi Makhaya | Jul 14, 2015 | economic freedom, entrepreneurship, mzansicreator, small business, start-ups
So you are a creator/entrepreneur/small business owner and you’d like to be featured on www.mzansipreneur.co.za like Julie Taylor of Guns and Rain here? To be considered for the mzansiQ+A, please answer at least five questions. No essays, please keep your responses...
by Trudi Makhaya | Jul 7, 2015 | achievement, economic freedom, entrepreneurship
What Hammanskraal taught me about black economic success: This was a tough place, not designed to nurture hopes and aspirations but, at best, to provide labour for the city of Pretoria and the farms surrounding it. But people made a life in the melting pot of...
by Trudi Makhaya | Mar 20, 2015 | economic freedom, economic policy, fiscal policy, inequality, Uncategorized
Days before Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene delivered the national budget, I spoke to Ayabonga Cawe of Rethink Africa and Dalberg; and Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on the state of fiscal policy. Some enduring insights about inequality, economic policy and the state...
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