Local Entrepreneurs Urged To Look Beyond Borders
Monday, February 25, 2019
Speaking at the second annual Africa Youth Entrepreneurs Summit (AYES) last week, founder and president of AYES Lemogang Senwelo said the summit was aimed at building partnerships amongst business people thus identify ways of expanding into other markets within Africa and beyond. Senwelo emphasised on the need for networks as they bridge existing gaps in the economic, trade and the investment spaces.
“It is important to bridge all these things together and shed light on how corporate companies can’t function without entrepreneurs because we provide services for them as much as entrepreneurs can’t survive without corporate companies because we need them to buy into the services that we provide for them,” she said.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...