South Africa is home to two of the greatest Starbucks baristas in the world. Cape Town’s Phuti Mmotla was crowned the EMEA champion for 2022 in the company’s standout coffee challenge, held in Milan. In 2019, Durban’s Teddy Nzama scooped the same...
Transport & Hospitality
AVBOB: There for You in Your Times of Greatest Need
Established in Bloemfontein in 1918, AVBOB has spent more than a century flourishing into Africa’s largest Mutual Assurance Society, with more than 7,000 staff providing a one-stop funeral insurance and burial service. “We set out to provide our...
WEBUYCARS: Hitting Top Gear and Still Accelerating
South Africa’s automotive industry continues to move as a major driver of the economy – there is no swerving this indisputable fact. From manufacturing, distribution, technology, repair, after market, modification, and sales, the industry supports...
PREMIER HOTELS & RESORTS: Comfortably the Best: Premier Secures Improvement, Expansion and Growth
Over 30 years in the industry, Premier Hotels & Resorts has become the go-to expert in developing and managing hotels, conference centres and restaurants. “From humble beginnings in the Eastern Cape, to becoming one of South Africa’s leading,...
SHELL SOUTH AFRICA: Building for the Next 120 Years of Ambition, Collaboration and Advancement
Shell has served South Africans since 1902, one of the largest international energy companies in the country with an enormous national footprint of service stations catering for a full suite of customer profiles. Still occupying a core position as...
AVIS SOUTH AFRICA: Astute Affiliations Help Agile Avis Lead the Way
“Avis is a trusted and award-winning brand with a long history of innovation in the car rental industry,” the company opens of the business originally born of Warren Avis’s realisation in 1946 of a rapidly growing need of people to be transported...
OX DELIVERS: Driving the Path Less Taken
Just 43% of Africa’s roads are paved. 30% of all of the paved roads on the continent are in South Africa. Africa is home to the lowest automobile penetration rate in the world, with an estimated 44 vehicles for every 1000 people. In smaller, less...
CRUSADER LOGISTICS: Crusader Hits Top Gear on the Journey to Leadership Status
Vast South Africa has 60 million people spread across 1.2 million km2, with growing population density around major metro hubs: Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban. While the trade arteries of the country are often described as woefully inadequate,...
METRO EXPRESS: Metro Express Construction Proceeds at Lightning Speed
Metro Express CEO Dr Das Mootanah dials in to Enterprise Africa from the Ebene suburb of Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, which he likens to Canary Wharf in the UK: just five kilometres south of the capital, Port Louis, its own construction began in...
AURIA SENIOR LIVING: Gold-Standard Choice Over Compromise in Golden Years
“This is not retirement. This is living.” So goes the Auria Senior Living (Auria) mantra, on its mission to erase a deeply-etched line for South Africans seeking a comfortable, hassle-free lifestyle in their older years. “At Auria we refer to...
BIDTRAVEL: SA Tourism Lives Again
By introducing legislation, restrictions, lockdowns, and controls around the movement of people, politicians took the fight to the quickly spreading Covid-19 virus in 2020. But the outcome was devastating for industries that run on people...
ADEGA: Seasoned Team Relaunches Adega
The years of 2020 and 2021 will forever be remembered as times of tragedy and difficulty. Covid-19 created challenges like never before. Travel, tourism, hospitality, retail – all battered by the virus itself and the subsequent restrictions....
NISSAN AFRICA: Capitalising on the ‘Last Automotive Frontier’
For most, the potential of Africa as an economic case is undoubted. 54 countries with much untapped potential, both in terms of market opportunities as well as human capital and innovation. Home to a major part of the world’s population, but...
FORD SOUTH AFRICA: Global Auto Business Eyes SA Opportunities
South Africa’s government has promised to deliver massive foreign direct investment to drive employment opportunities, commercial activity, and ultimately GDP growth in a promising economy which has waned for almost a decade. President Ramaphosa...
CJP CHEMICALS: New Recipe for Growth
South Africa’s manufacturing industry has faced years of decline, stretching back way before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the best part of the last decade, manufacturers have struggled to keep up with demand has created an opportunity...
TRANSNET: Localisation Drive Fuelling Transnet Future
These are tricky times for South Africa’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). Names have been dragged through the mud, financial damage has been significant, operational inadequacy has been highlighted, and what should be organisations of pride for...
SANRAL: Reliable Road Network Transforms Lives and Livelihoods
South Africa’s national road network creates benefits impacting a litany of spheres, including economic growth, tourism, social development and the creation of opportunities. Established in 1998 to align with staunch government commitments to...
GONDWANA COLLECTION: Gondwana Sees Light at the End of Dark Tunnel
With most industries now looking beyond the Covid pandemic and planning for return to normal operations, if they are not already there, tourism continues to suffer with traveller numbers down, hotel occupancy not where it was, and even travel...