LESSONS FROM MSME DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN
The Eswatini economy will not grow at the pace required to transform it and raise welfare unless the country goes back to the basics: developing a good understanding of the productive structures, and nurturing and expanding these through deliberate and strategic engagement of emaSwati. To…
Eswatini is Full of Business Opportunities for the Youth
Mhlanga who holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech and Hearing from Wits University in South Africa believes that Eswatini is full of business opportunities for young people. Gcinile Mhlanga is now the co-owner of the franchise Mugg and Bean in Ezulwini. In a…
A Survival Strategy for start-ups in Eswatini: People will always remember you for how you make them feel
Many of Eswatini’s youth have brilliant business ideas but for one reason or the other fail to start sustainable and successful businesses. Lack of business management skills and capital as well as regulatory red-tape are among the popular cited bottlenecks that impede the proliferation of…
THE TIME TO INVEST IN THE YOUTH IS NOW!
“The time to invest in the youth is now,” declares a young entrepreneur during an ESEPARC seminar on “Rethinking our Regular 8-5” held at the Mbabane Theatre Club, December 2019. “Eswatini’s youth are not the future but the present” he emphasised, calling upon policymakers to…
UNLEASHING ESWATINI’S PROMISING ENTREPRENEURS
A core principle of Africapitalism is the need to empower African entrepreneurs, ensuring that they are able to unleash their potential to create and grow their own businesses as a way to build more diverse and resilient economies. With the high level of unemployment and…