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Female Entrepreneurship at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation: Investigating the motivations of, and barriers faced by, female entrepreneurs.

There is a large entrepreneurial gender disparity in South Africa. A recent survey shows that the average total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) female/male gender ratio is 0.70. Further statistics show that only 9% of women are involved in the early stages of entrepreneurial pursuit...

TOTH Concepts

TOTH Concepts plans, designs, constructs and maintains a wide range of sustainable and resilient infrastructure solutions. From Civils and Transport, Energy, Healthcare, and Education infrastructure to ad hoc advisory services to Infrastructure Owners, we can help improve the outcomes of investments in infrastructure, for the benefit of the intended purposes and end users/customers.

Our team of qualified Professionals brings industry best practices to infrastructure projects.

Infrastructure sectors:

Transportation;
Water and Sanitation;
Energy;
ICT and
Solid Waste Management

The Daily Grind Hub

The Daily Grind Hub is a facility with space for thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get the support, coaching, and mobilisation they need.

The Daily Grind Hub offers the following services;

Incubation
- Pre-Incubation: Innovation assessment, business plan, business modelling and training
- Incubation: Access to finance and coaching and mentoring, hosting, training, commercialization, and advanced business planning.
- Post-Incubation: Innovation diagnostics, international support, technology commercialization, clustering business development.
Co-Working Spaces
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Phumelela Solutions

We recycle food waste to produce nutrients and animal feed.

Technology and Human Resource for Industry Programme

Overview of your opportunity

The Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP) is intended to leverage collaborative partnerships between government and industry (working with academia), for applied research and development projects in science, engineering and technology on a cost-sharing basis, to produce highly skilled human resources and technology solutions, for an improved industry and enterprise competitiveness.

Agro-Processing Support Scheme

Overview of your opportunity

The Agro-Processing Support Scheme (APSS) aims to stimulate investment by the South African agro-processing / beneficiation (agri-business) enterprises. The investment should demonstrate that it will achieve some of the following:
Increased capacity, employment creation, modernised machinery and equipment, competitiveness and productivity improvement and broadening participation.

Benefits;

Hexagon House Investment

We write and publish crop production manuals. We also provide consultation in the crop production field.

AgriLogisTech

AgriLogisTech is B2B2C Namibian startup connecting farmers in Southern Africa to all industry needs such as logistics vehicles, storage facilities, training workshops, value addition hotspots, and industry news via smartphone and web applications. We definitively ensure that farmer operations and products meet international quality standards BEFORE they are sold to the market.

Isakhono SikaJune General Services Pty Ltd

Isakhono SikaJune General Services is involved in Agriculture Produce and Medicinal Plants

Khanyasive Investments

Khanyasive Investments trading as Agrolife Nursery produces high quality vegetable seedlings for both commercial and small-scale farmers in Eswatini. The business is located in Malkerns and was established in 2021 after realising that there is insufficient supply of vegetable seedlings in Eswatini which then hinders vegetable production resulting in an increase in imports.