While no business went unscathed by the national lockdown, small businesses felt the brunt of it. Fortunately, one organisation stepped up to help some businesses owned by quadriplegics and paraplegics. As South Africans were asked to stay home, many businesses were forced to close. For a small business or new businesses, a month or more […]
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The Berbellion Prize, a new award dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing will recognise the work of an author whose “work has best spoken of the experience of chronic illness and/or disability.” The Berbellion Prize will be awarded for the first time in February 2021 for a book published in 2020,
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A perfectly brewed cup of coffee is a big drawcard for visitors and guests to hotels and for Phumzile Mazibuko, the barista from ANEW Hotel in Hilton, making the perfect cup of coffee is where she gets a chance to come into her own! Phumzile, who has been deaf since birth, is the hotel group’s
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Lauren Neilson, a fourth-year speech and language pathology student, began making lip-reading masks when she realised how hard it was to communicate with deaf people when wearing a conventional mask. A Cape Town occupational therapist who turned her love of sewing into a self-run business, and a Durban entrepreneurial speech therapy student are unmasking lips
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Africa’s first Assistive Technology Accelerator is seeking applications from innovators across the African continent who are dedicated to developing mobile based technologies designed to assist people living with disabilities. The UK Aid-funded Innovate Now, which is run by Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub and Amref Enterprises Limited, will soon be concluding its first programme, and plans
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South Africa needs to do more to support people living with disabilities who want to run their own businesses. At present it is hard for them to make a living. Helping them would benefit the broader economy too. Individuals with disabilities make up 15% of the South African population and it’s estimated that 8 in 10 people
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The Transnet Enterprise Development Hub in collaboration with Department Of Small Business, Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), South African Revenue Services (SARS), Gauteng Enterprise Propeller (GEP), as well as Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) with the intention to reflect a coordinated Government effort around Enterprise Development. Transnet Enterprise Development
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There is growing general concern that the majority of people living with disabilities in South Africa are excluded from the mainstream society and have thus been prevented from accessing fundamental social and economic rights. This has resulted in high levels of poverty and unemployment among this community. As an all-inclusive economic development catalyst, SEFA has
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Sebenzile Matsebula is the founder of Motswako Office Systems. She is proof that with positive dreams and a preparation to work exceptionally hard, and prove to others that you are an entrepreneur first and foremost and successful at what you do, then disability can’t come in your way of success. Starting up a business in
How South African Entrepreneur, Sebenzile Matsebula, Ignored Her Disability To Achieve Success Sebenzile Matsebula is the founder of Motswako Office Systems. Sebenzile is proof that with positive dreams and a preparation to work exceptionally hard, and prove to others that you are an entrepreneur first and foremost and successful at what you do, then disability
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