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Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [25/05/2020]
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Outcry as department’s Gazelles programme stalls on grants, support
When it was launched in 2016, the Minister of Small Business Development Lindiwe Zulu hailed the National Gazelles programme as a key intervention that…
Four months on, what has become of the SA government’s startup fund?
Four months after it was announced, the National Treasury and two government departments remain mum on a R1-billion startup fund. The fund was announced in October…
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