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What to Watch Topic: Entrepreneurship

“The effect of releasing capital into the economy is enormous,” argues AJ Coetzee, CEO of Summit Deals. Yet in the venture capital system, funding still takes months to reach entrepreneurs – even with willing parties across the value chain. Drawing on his experience in global dealmaking, AJ explains how they are working to fix this gap so capital can move faster between investors and founders. In the end, he says, making that happen depends not only on better systems, but on trust, integrity, and the conviction to keep going when the journey gets hard.

Derich, the MD of Klipfontein Farms and D&M Fresh Products (a fruit packing company), shares his journey of leaving the security of a well-paying job to start a family business. He encourages fellow entrepreneurs to face their many challenges with courage, to ensure they have a solid business strategy, and to cultivate strong industry relationships rather than trying to do everything on their own.

Irene Kauma, Senior Private Secretary to the First Lady of Uganda, has experienced her share of failure in business. To those who have tried everything and lost hope, her gracious and perceptive keynote address at the Ziwani Regional Connect in Kampala offers encouragement for the future.

Eddie Andrews, a former Springbok rugby player and the Deputy Mayor of Cape Town since 2021, has experienced his share of unexpected challenges. In his keynote address at the Ziwani Regional Connect in Cape Town, he discusses how understanding that we are "placed for purpose" in specific environments can help us navigate uncertainty.

Rory Dyer shares at the Ziwani launch on approaching business as a Kingdom calling, and as a vehicle to restore people while bringing glory to Jesus.

Ruhinda Bosco shares his journey to discovering that the company he founded, Trinitas Group Ltd is, in fact, God's business, and he is just a steward. This profoundly transformed his perspective on business and its role in society.

Competence. Character. No cutting corners. This is Alfred Okugbeni’s vision for the haulage and logistics industry in West Africa. Believing that a worthy witness of God demands excellence, he has worked for more than 15 years to raise the standard – one truck, one customer, one technician at a time. And by now word has spread all the way to China, “Those guys at Sinotruck do things differently.”

Jesudamilare Adesegun-David (JD) explains why he is deeply committed to developing solutions for the under-served university town of Ogbomoso. His passion stems from his belief that individuals have the power to influence businesses, and those businesses, in turn, can reshape the future of a city and, ultimately, a nation for God's glory.

Growing up in both Ghana and the UK has given Kwabena a unique outlook on life. Convinced that with great opportunity comes great responsibility, he is passionate about finding (and financing) entrepreneurial solutions that bring systemic change to African economies.

Yemi Faseun, Cynthia Nyamai, Sammy Rabolele, and Sibs Sibanda engage in a lively online conversation, delving into the practical ways of harnessing our work and our businesses' potential to advancing societal justice.

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Watch the inspiring account of how Robert Bayigamba survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Robert became CEO at Manumetal a few months before the genocide started. Shortly after taking up the job, he and his family had to escape the country for their safety. They narrowly escaped with their lives, but Robert later returned to Kigali and used his business to contribute towards the reconstruction of the country and a source for good in his community. *NOTE: contains some disturbing footage of the genocide. Not for sensitive viewers.

In this webinar to celebrate RecruitMyMom's 10th birthday, Phillipa Geard chats to Nicole Sykes, Head of Women in Business Niche at FNB Business, about the trends she sees in female-led businesses as well as some of the challenges that female entrepreneurs face. Nicole shares some advice for women entrepreneurs and encourages investors that there are many benefits to economically empowering women.

A successful career demands deep commitment – the kind of dedication that can easily take over your life. Especially when the husband is an award-winning architect, and the wife is a CA travelling all over the world. Yet James and Valentine Gitoho mastered the art of doing excellent work, without becoming slaves to it. Be encouraged by their remarkable story!

"It's not putting a marble in a glass of water, it's putting a drop of ink in a glass of water - it changes everything." Every single day, our work gives us opportunities to ‘add kingdom life’ to our colleagues and communities. This is fundamentally because business provides the wide-ranging products and services that people need, together with sustainable employment. A passionate couple whose convictions have been refined by real-life experience, Dr Dennis Tongoi and Irene Tongoi challenge conventional perceptions about the interaction between entrepreneurs and the church.

What is the difference between perfection and excellence? And what are the markers of excellence business? In this panel discussion, Keri-Leigh Paschal talks to Irene Kauma Kisaka, Danstan Kisuule and Champ Thekiso about business being a beacon of excellence.

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