The dynamic for women entrepreneurs in South Africa is one that offers many opportunities. As a developing nation, the field provides many niches that represent opportunities within the sphere of small-and-medium enterprise (SME) business endeavours. There are challenges as well as opportunities in various fields of entrepreneurship. Some challenges and
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Women Entrepreneurs in Cape Town, South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
“Leadership and Innovation: Business Focused Qualification Development in South Africa”
South Africa is a socially diverse and multicultural country. The constitution recognises eleven official languages and multiple ethnic groups and is progressive with regard to women’s rights and sexual orientation. South Africa, however, is also constantly reminded of its troubled history under the apartheid regime, and this is still evident among its workforce who to a large extent
...Leadership, Artificial Intelligence and The Need to Redefine Future Skills Development.
Leadership and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are directly related, as it is through the actions of leaders that AI is funded, designed and created. There is a tendency to consider the negative aspects of AI, as noted in McDermott (2007), where the challenges of the unknown are marginalised. Rather than to challenge the efficacy and potential of AI, this paper
...Academic Leadership Challenges- Ensuring Relevance in The Work Integrated Learning Space
This paper will consider how Academic Leadership models are able to create a relationship between academia/learning and industry as well as work integrated learning, without compromising the pursuit and development of academia. Ensuring that practical tasks and opportunities safeguard the transfer of knowledge into practice and ensures a credible
...Entrepreneurial Retail Readiness – Retail Leadership Strategic Implementation.
In South Africa, a large retail store has engaged in a model, which considers the change from ‘retail employment’, an act, to entrepreneurial retail readiness, a provision of skills to note that the retail industry is entrepreneurial, and skills and retail readiness provide opportunities for potential staff to understand the skill requirements of the retail sector, but more
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