I am just back from my first visit to Nude Foods, the grocery store we have all been waiting for! I do mean all of us.
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Results17Think out of the box, put the farm into one
In this age of Eat Local campaigns, one might be a little alarmed to encounter vegetables called rucola, petite-this and mange-that, on a plate in the
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Yoco, poster child of SA as global fintech hub
Local startup Yoco’s successfully concluded foreign funding round, announced on Wednesday, has been described as a vote of confidence in South Africa’s growing fintech ecosystem. The
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Young Africa Works: Making farming sexy
A beautiful, noisy thunder shower greeted delegates arriving in Kigali, Rwanda, for the Mastercard Foundation’s second annual Young Africa Works Summit in late February 2017, shattering
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Things heat up for polar expedition from Cape
Things were heating up at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town this weekend as 50 scientists from around the globe prepared for the groundbreaking three-month polar
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Spier shares cash from carbon credits with workers
Workers at the Spier estate in Stellenbosch in South Africa’s winelands will have a little extra to spend this Christmas after the farm decided to divide
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Local is lekker: Hyperli steps into space left by Groupon
Bargain hunters will be pleased to hear that Hyperli, a hyperlocal hypermarket of a deal website, on Wednesday promised to fill the space left when the
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Crowd-funding: almost as old as the hills in Africa
The idea behind crowd-funding, raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people via the internet to finance a project, might not be
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Building a house Africa-style: one step at a time
Innovation is required in the financial services sector in Africa to provide funding products for households who build their own homes bit by bit. Either way,
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FNB combines new tech and old-fashioned values
As First National Bank launched its new super hi-tech mobile banking app on Wednesday the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, made the point that the bank’s
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