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The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Entrepreneurship Development Academy (EDA) is partnering with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to deliver the Foundation's Road to Growth programme. Delivered by the GIBS EDA, the blended programme will offer a total of 50 women entrepreneurs the opportunity to advance their entrepreneurial journey. The programme will support 25 women in Gauteng at the GIBS campus and 25 women in the Western Cape in Cape Town at the Cape Town Lodge Hotel, helping them build business skills, financial literacy, networks, and confidence.

The Standard Chartered Women in Tech Programme at WomHub is now open for applications! 

The programme is targeted at female entrepreneurs in Gauteng, running a tech business and looking to grow and scale.

Eligibility criteria

In line with National Youth Policy, the Youth Challenge Fund will be providing support to youth businesses/enterprises who meet the following criteria:

The Township and Rural Empowerment Programmes (TREP) supports informal, micro and small enterprises and cooperatives in the rural and township economies. TREP provides blended finance and business development support to various sectors with a view of promoting their participation in the mainstream economy.

The Scheme is aimed at supporting small enterprises to:

Inviting SMEs that require Funding to Participate in Capital Matching

Looking to raise SME funding? Apply Below.

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) SME RISE Initiative is focused on supporting SMEs to aid the growth of our economy and have therefore expanded the SME Rise Funding Readiness and Capital Matching initiates to more companies.

The JSE is collaborating with the SEDA, SEFA and Western Cape Government, Department of Economic Development and Tourism to deliver a unique Capital Matching solution for SMEs.

As part of the JSE’s vision in growing shared prosperity, the JSE is excited to bring to the market a solution that will fast-track the growth of SA’s Private Companies.  We will be providing a platform with an ecosystem of advisors, educational enablers and networks that ultimately will enable SME’s to attract the right level of funding. 

SME Solutions that will be provided by the JSE Enterprise Acceleration Programme:

The Township Digital Market Access Programme, in partnership with the UK South Africa Tech Hub aims to empower and onboard 200 small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) from Soweto, Diepsloot, Tembisa, Hammanskraal and Soshanguve onto e-commerce and marketplace platforms.

The programme's objectives are to: