At a time when the unemployment rate in South Africa has risen to its highest in decades, companies struggle to find the correct financiers to assist in their growth. And when the requirements for securing finance have become seemingly impossible to meet, how are SMEs expected to have a measured effect in their respective [...]
Whatever your outlook for 2020 may be, there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel. This light is either a train light or sunlight. The light that you see is that which you choose - i.e. it is largely dependent on your perspective or lens. You can choose to only see things [...]
The economic tide has had local entrepreneurs bobbing up and down since 2008. With South Africa’s economic growth down from 3.0% y/y to around 0.5% y/y* over the past decade, how do those with their own small to medium businesses remain positive amidst economic uncertainty? As a funder of hundreds of established SMEs, Spartan [...]