Gauteng Accelerator Programme News Today

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The Innovation Hub is giving away seed funding worth R3 million to innovative start-ups.

Entries to the 2022 Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) Innovation Competition have officially opened, with a total of R3 million in seed funding up for grabs for aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs to launch new businesses.

As much as 5,455 people were hijacked between October and December of 2021..

Tendani Tsedu, group manager of strategic communication at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), was recently been recognised as an Accredited Public Relations practitioner (APR) by the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa...

South Africa has many problems, ranging from a lack of access to water and sanitation to unemployment and health issues. Start-ups may be able to address these in innovative ways while also creating employment. South Africa has many problems, ranging from a lack of access to water and sanitatio...

Two South African students develop high-tech cannabis growing technique Cannabis and its users have been demonised for decades. With the laws about cannabis use and sale continuing to change, two South African students are busy finding new and more efficient ways to grow the controversial plant. In South Africa, cannabis can still not be cultivated or sold commercially. There is a lot of hope for a future cannabis industry to become transformative. Legalising cannabis There are many examples ...

Henley MBA student Collen Mashawana is helping build communities during a pandemicThere are many aspects to the Henley Executive MBA that make it stand out from every other MBA programme offered on the continent, not least the fact that it is the only international MBA offered in South Africa. But there are two other aspects that are extremely close to Henley Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedleys heart: serving the community and active learning. Issued by Henley Business School Judgment c...