Ventures Africa features a fascinating article on Sibongile Sambo, South Africa's high flying aviation entrepreneur that is making waves in a traditionally male dominated industry. It appears, the sky's the limited for this tenacious and hardworking 'Lioness of Africa'.
Read moreCarrol Boyes: Making business an art form
Article: Business Excellence Magazine
An artist’s mind knows no boundaries, so consider the dilemma and frustration of needing to reign in that creative spirit to accommodate the economic needs of running a viable business. That is the challenge Carrol Boyes has confronted head-on, as Andrew Pelis finds out....
Read moreSecure ID Emerges Most Outstanding Business in Africa
Source: All Africa, published on October 29, 2012
In recognition of its excellent business practice, SecureID Limited has been named the Most Outstanding Mature Business in the 3rd African Leadership Network Awards for Entrepreneurship.
SecureID, it stated, was recognised for its pre-eminence as a thoroughbred start-up of African origin, competing successfully in a global market.
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Kofo Akinkugbe wins Africa Entrepreneurship Award
Source: Reporters 365, published October 12, 2012
Mrs Kofo Akinkugbe, on Thursday in Accra, Ghana, won the “2012 Africa Award for Entrepreneurship” for her contribution to socio-economic development of the continent. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akinkugbe bagged the 100,000 dollars prize in the Outstanding Mature Business category.
Read moreRwanda’s Drakkar Ltd. Wins USAID’S Global “All Children Reading" Award
Source: IGIHE.com | Published on September 17, 2012
Drakkar is working in cooperation with the Rwandan Education Board (REB) and the Educational Development Center in three districts in the Southern Province in Rwanda. The project’s goal and theory of change are to encourage a culture of reading in Rwanda by: providing support to, and training of, school-based mentors to improve teachers’ instructional practices, including through the incorporation of read aloud approaches; Increasing access to Kinyarwanda storybooks in targeted schools and local bookstores; and developing local capacity to produce Kinyarwanda stories, including through a national story writing competition designed to develop a children’s book market for authors.
Read moreBethlehem Tilahun Alemu features on the Forbes 'Africa's Most Successful Women' list
Forbes Magazine featured Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu to their 'Africa's Most Successful Women' list for 2012.
Read moreWendy Ackerman: the elegant doyenne of the retail industry
Wendy Ackerman provides a fascinating insight into the makings of a retail giant and what drives her to keep on working when others might have thought of retiring, especially when it comes to her many philanthropic causes.
Source: The Independent on Saturday, September 8 2011, by Lyse Comins
Read moreLydie Hakizimana: The book distributor at heart of Rwanda’s drive for knowledge economy
Source: Ventures Africa | August 30, 2012
Lydie Hakizimana, who started a bookshop in 2006 that expanded into her company Drakkar Ltd, struck a deal with UK publisher’s Pearson Education to resell their textbooks in Rwanda and Burundi.
Read moreDivine Ndhlukula: Blazing Trails, Setting Standards
Read this fascinating article on Divine Ndhlukula featured in Ventures Africa on August 11, 2012
Very little is ladylike about the security industry, yet Ndhlukula has successfully shifted the industry paradigm from male dominance, leaving her mark as a leader among peers. She says to women: “If you want a certain future, go out and create it. Conquer your fears as that is what enslaves most women.” Divine began creating the future she wanted in 1998 and has certainly had many reasons to be enslaved by fear along the way.
Read moreKhanyi Dhlomo finds that magazines are her Destiny
Source: Business Day, author Doug Gordon, 6 August 2012
KHANYI Dhlomo is the kind of business executive that movies are made about. Now 35, she's taken 15 years to graduate from media princess to publishing entrepreneur. Today, empowered by an MBA from Harvard and close analysis of the magazine business via interviews with the likes of Conde Nast powerhouse Jonathan Newhouse, her own fledgling Ndalo Media company is taking wing in the digital era... Read the full article here.
Read moreAissa Dione - Reviving Senegal's textile industry
Source: RNW Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Published July, 29 2011
Designer and entrepreneur, Aissa Dione, has made it her mission to revive Senegal’s ailing textile industry. Her solution - go to the high-end of the global market. She has cut out a niche for herself by supplying hand crafted fabric to the world's most exclusive interior design companies.
Read moreKhanyi Dhlomo one of Africa’s top 5 women entrepreneurs
Source: The South African, author Nicole Holgate, 16 July, 2012
Former TV celebrity Khanyi Dhlomo has been named one of Africa’s top five women entrepreneurs by Business Insider for her current work in print and online publishing....
Read moreForbes: Emerging Global Women Entrepreneurs
Susan Mashibe, founder of Via Aviation, Tanzania
Source: Forbes | July 9, 2011
Many years ago in Tanzania when Susan Mashibe was four years old, she remembers watching her parents take off in an airplane while she was left behind with her grandmother. “At that point,” she determined, “I decided if I knew how to fly, I would never be left behind again.”....
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Read moreThe woman who took on Zimbabwe's security men and won
Read this fascinating interview with Divine featured on BBC Network Africa, and its African Dream show on 6 July 2012.
Securico, the company that Zimbabwe's Divine Ndhlukula started in her cottage in the late 1990s with four employees and very little capital, has become one of her country's largest security firms. According to her, perhaps the biggest barrier she had to face when she set it up was her gender.
Read moreBethlehem Tilahun Alemu named Social Entrepreneur of The Year at World Economic Forum
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship announced today that Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu , founder and CEO of soleRebels, has received the Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of The Year Award at the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa
Read moreThe 10,000 Women Initiative of Goldman Sachs features South Africa's high flying aviation pioneer Sibingile Sambo
The 10,000 Women Initiative of Goldman Sachs has featured South Africa's high flying aviation pioneer Sibingile Sambo as a case-study.
Read the Case-Study of South Africa's Sibongile Sambo and SRS Aviation.
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