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Business School- How to Access African Markets Successfully
Accessing Export Markets for African Small Businesses: A Practical Guide For many African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their local or domestic market can often simply be too small, or possibly too competitive to sustain meaningful growth. Exporting offers a proven path to scale revenue, diversify risk (multiple markets keep you safe from single market
VAT Threshold Increase – A Practical Win for South African SMEs
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced a long-overdue adjustment to South Africa’s Value-Added Tax (VAT) registration thresholds In his 2026 National Budget Speech. Effective from1 April 2026, the compulsory VAT registration threshold has risen from R1 million to R2.3 million in annual taxable turnover. The voluntary registration threshold has also increased from R50,000 to R120,000. For
Breaking News Today – Tuesday 14 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Africa’s Share of Global FDI Remains Stuck at 4–6% The Pan-African Manufacturers Association (PANA) March 2026 Manufacturing Review, released this month indicates that Africa’s share of global FDI has remained stuck between 4% and 6% for the past decade, with no meaningful improvement. In 2025, FDI inflows to
Ecosystem Builders The Unsung Heroes in the African Startup Landscape
Ecosystem Builders are organisations, individuals, or initiatives that actively create, strengthen, and scale the environment in which startups can thrive. They do not just invest or advise, these are the true heroes of the business growth world where they build the “plumbing” and provide the scaffolding of the ecosystem. They provide talent pipelines, capital access,
Economic Freedom as Africa’s Untapped Accelerator
The 2026 Index of Economic Freedom, published by The Heritage Foundation, tracking consistent criteria since the mid-1990s, offers one of the most reliable long-term snapshots of how policy choices shape prosperity. The index scores countries on four pillars: The score is marked on a 0–100 scale. Higher scores correlate strongly with faster growth, higher incomes,
Breaking News Today – Monday 13 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Your African Economic Week Ahead (13-18 April) The IMF Regional Economic Outlook due 16 April should be the standout economic data release of the week. IThis will provide an update on Sub-Saharan Africa’s 2026 growth forecast – currently around 4.1% but could change with downside risks from energy
Kearney 2026 FDI Confidence Index: A World Recalibrating
The 2026 FDI Confidence Index, released by Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council in early April 2026, is based on a survey of senior executives conducted in January 2026. It measures investor sentiment toward foreign direct investment (FDI) across 25 major markets and in addition, provides an emerging markets ranking. This year’s report, titled “World Recalibrating”,
Breaking News Today – Friday 10 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today African Startups Raise $705m in Q1 2026 Fresh Q1 2026 funding data, from Condia’s funding tracker, released today, indicates that African startups secured $705 million across 59 deals in 14 countries in the first quarter of 2026. This amounts to an encouraging 26.5% year-on-year increase. Egypt led the
M-KOPA – Enabling Micro-Business Growth in South Africa
M-KOPA South Africa has published its inaugural South Africa Impact Report. The findings show that women are playing a leading role in the country's digital inclusion, both as first-time smartphone users and as income earners within the company's growing agent network. The report highlights the company’s significant progress in driving financial inclusion, digital access, and
Breaking News Today – Thursday 9 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Samsung Messaging to Be Discontinued According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July 2026. The move would impacted owners of Samsung smartphones and other devices who are being urged to switch to Google Message in the
How Global Entities Continue to Extract From Africa's Economy
There has been a history of unrestrained extraction from Africa by many developed economies that stretches back to the colonial era and even beyond that. And the painful truth is that this still continues today but in much more subtle forms. The real sting behind this, is that many of these, are today presented to
Business School – Startup Cost Management Strategies
Lean Operations Blueprint – Automate Your Startup Processes Without Spending a Fortune In Africa today, the most successful African startups aren’t necessarily the ones raising the biggest funding rounds, rather they’re the ones that keep their business operations lean, learn to move fast, and a key ingredient is to look to automate intelligently from day
Breaking News Today – Wednesday 8 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Oil Prices Cascade After Middle East Cease Fire Agreement Brent crude futures plunged by around 14% toward $94 per barrel this morning, after US President Donald Trump delayed his threat to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure by two weeks in what he described as a “double-sided ceasefire,” contingent on
Breaking News Today – Tuesday 7 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today African Refinery Stabilising Fuel Supplies in Africa Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery, Africa's largest, has increased exports of gasoline to African countries hit by supply disruptions caused by the Iran / Us war, according to Aliko Dangote, the owner of the company. Dangote said the refinery, which is operating
South African-Made BMW iX3 Claims Global Car of the Year Title
Pretoria, South Africa — In a major boost for local manufacturing, the BMW iX3 — produced at BMW’s world-class Rosslyn plant outside Pretoria — has been named the 2026 World Car of the Year and 2026 World Electric Vehicle by an international jury of 98 motoring journalists from 33 countries. The fully electric Neue Klasse
Breaking News Today – Thursday 2 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Kenya’s Tea and Flower Exports Hit by Iran Conflict Disruptions Key export agricultural products in Kenya’s tea and horticulture sectors continue to suffer major disruptions and set-backs from Red Sea and Gulf shipping disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict. Weekly losses for flower exporters have now reached
South Africa’s Manufacturing PMI Edges Higher but Remains in Contraction
The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for March 2026 rose 1.6 points to 49.0, up from 47.4 in February. While the improvement is welcome, the headline reading stayed below the key 50-point neutral mark, signalling that South Africa’s manufacturing sector continues to struggle for sustained momentum. The modest gain was driven mainly by
South Africa’s QES December 2025 – Fewer Jobs, Fatter Pay Cheques, and the Public-Sector Skew
The Stats SA Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) release for the quarter ending December 2025, published on 31 March 2026, paints a picture that is at once familiar and deeply troubling for South Africa. Total formal non-agricultural employment rose modestly by 18 000 (0.2 %) quarter-on-quarter to 10.551 million, but fell 102 000 (–1.0 %) year-on-year.
Breaking News Today – Wednesday 1 April 2026
African Start-up News Headlines: Business News Today Fuel Price Increase Day in South Africa Welcome to April Fuels day in South Africa where last minute adjustments by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMRE) – only announced official adjustments yesterday have somewhat cushioned the potential impact of fuel price escalations. These took effect at
Building Effective Sales Systems and Sales Funnels in 2026
The sales landscape for African startups and SMEs in 2026, has shifted dramatically. Gone are the days when success depended on sheer volume and cold-calling hundreds of prospects or knocking on doors with a generic pitch. That “numbers game” approach, while effective decades ago in door-to-door eras, now wastes time, burns out teams, and delivers