What do gems and tea have in common? Entrepreneurship, of course! GEM stands for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and is the world’s largest study of entrepreneurship. It is an annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries. Now where does the tea come in? The primary [...]

Out of the blue, I received this SMS over the weekend. It was from an entrepreneur who was in my office two weeks ago, a 50ish gentleman who had spent a considerable number of years trying to get his engineering company off the ground. He was very polite and controlled but agitated. During the course of our conversation [...]

The TSiBA Eden Ignition Centre hosted its first Business Networking Forum on the 24 April 2012. Dion Kruger, the Ignition Centre’s mentor and business coach, from Old Mutual’s Ilima Trust, gave an in depth presentation on Marketing which captured everybody’s undivided attention. The forum is aimed at creating an opportunity for local entrepreneurs to learn [...]

The TSiBA Eden Ignition Centre welcomed its transformation into a fully functioning e-cafe and IT lab on the 11 April as it’s 10 computers were installed and networked by IT teacher Jamie and IT support volunteer Viv. Boxes of new mouses and keyboards were unpacked at lightening speed to be ready for Wednesday’s final Career [...]

The TSiBA Eden Ignition Centre proudly celebrated the first 2012 group of Career Education and Computer Skills graduates, on the 11 April in Karatara. The participants were dedicated to improving their skills and supporting one another in acquiring the knowledge; and a significant change was noticed and acknowledged in each of them. We look forward [...]

Nqobile Bhengu, a recent graduate is truly a lady who knows how to get things done. She did her final capstone internship at Novartis in Switzerland and her project was about the treatment of malaria. Through her determination she also went to Malawi on her own to conduct this research and she passed this report [...]

Lyle Johnson is a final year student on his last legs of his student life at TSiBA. He is on his internship which at TSiBA is called individual industry practical project (IPJ). He is based at The Waterfront and is interning at General Reinsurance. The first two days were settling in time he said but then [...]

We, TSiBA students, are writing this letter to inform you, as President about our view of unequal education in South Africa. We feel that government should be more involved. Even after 18 years there is still inequality in terms of education amongst South Africa. Some public schools are lacking resources while private schools are receiving [...]