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In a year-end message, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen reflects on how 2025 strengthened South Africa’s agricultural sector across seven core priorities: partnerships, regulation, market access, farmer support, biosecurity, advocacy and food security. He notes that despite global economic
A strategic intervention in South Africa’s investment landscape confronts the hard truths of transformation, capability building, and patient capital In mid-January 2026, twenty-four emerging investment professionals gathered at Mount Grace Hotel in Magaliesburg for the Black Investment Associate
The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, together with the CSIR, confirms the full distribution of prize funds to the six winners of the SA Tech Challenge 2025. In November 2025, six Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) stood on stage at the opening plenary of the 10th Science
At the JSE’s closing bell on 1 July 2026, ten growth-stage SMEs finished a 12-month accelerator with 134 new jobs, 32.75% average revenue growth and over R37 million raised. The most valuable thing they gained wasn’t any of that. (Part 1 of the Innovation Bridge Portal’s series covering the JSE