JA South Africa’s Company of the Year (COY) in partnership with Citi Foundation country winners – KeyScape, clinched the PMIEF award and Public Choice Award in third place. The PMIEF award, recognises teams that displayed Project Management principals throughout the running of their business, whilst Public Choice Award, an award that sees the public voting […]
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2022 Budget Speech, renewed hope for SMME’s
In his maiden budget speech, Minister Godongwana has sustained the pronouncements by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he presented the State of the Nation Address two weeks ago on unemployment and job creation. We have highlighted three items from the budget speech to help Small to Medium Size Enterprises see where they can benefit. To counter […]
JA South Africa country winners Keyscape represent SA in COY regionals
JA South Africa country winners represent SA in COY regionals JA Africa’s Company of the Year Competition (COY) returns for the 11th edition from February 24 – 26, 2022, bringing together Africa’s most impressive high school entrepreneurs for this contest of business skills, ingenuity, and innovation. Key scape who won against eight other teams nationally sell […]
JA South Africa is proud to announce our 2021 Company of the Year country winners
JA South Africa is excited to announce our 2021 Company of Year country winners, Keyscape. KeyScape sells key-tag trackers. The key-tag tracker allows one to find lost items with ease, simply attaching the tracker to items like keys, wallets, and handbags. The device is synchronised with the “iTag” or “iSearching” application from any smartphone […]
JA South Africa – Company of the Year 2021
JA South Africa is proud to announce the 2021 Company of the Year competition Register here, and watch our provincial finalists battle it to be crowned JA South Africa’s country winners. […]
How to teach the youth entrepreneurial skills
Concerning data released by the Statistics South Africa quarterly labour force survey in the 2nd quarter of 2021 indicate that the country’s unemployment rate has hit a new record high of 34.4% from 32.6% in the previous quarter. This is the highest jobless rate in the past decade, with youth unemployment rate, measuring job-seekers between […]
JA South Africa’s More than Money Programme receives a nod from MMF and GDED
JA South Africa (formerly Junior Achievement SA) is delighted to partner with Momentum Metropolitan Foundation (MMF) in implementing the JA More than Money programme. The partnership has seen over 360 grades 6-7 learners from Chivirikani Primary School in Katlehong and at Theo Twala Primary School in Springs empowered with financial literacy skills. JA’s More than […]
JA South Africa in partnership Itirele Trust accelerates Women in Business
JA South Africa in partnership with Itirele Trust has empowered 16 young women through the JA South Africa Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme. The programme, which was implemented at Jerry Moloi Library Daveyton, Etwatwa ran from March to June 2021 and was hosted by Ekasi Net Organisation. The programme focused on empowering female tertiary graduates and women […]
GOOGLE.ORG FUNDING UPSKILLS 500 YOUTH
The Google.Org sponsorship will upskill 500 disadvantaged youth with much needed IT skills JA South Africa is delighted to receive sponsorship from Google.org to provide scholarships, instructional support, and wraparound support for young South Africans. The grant, valued at R 1,5 million, will see 500 disadvantaged youth across Gauteng, Limpopo, Eastern Cape and Western Cape […]
Change Makers Women in Business Conference 2021
Are you a young woman looking to be a change maker for your generation? If you are between the ages of 15- 35 then the Change Maker’s – Women in Business conference is for you! The virtual event scheduled for Wednesday, 4 August 2021 from 10:00 – 12:30 will focus specifically on women empowerment and […]