Meet the Intervarsity Existing Business – Tech category winners
An aqua device prototype that monitors water quality and a multilingual AI healthcare assistant that enables patients and healthcare workers to communicate in the patient’s mother tongue during medical consultations won recognition for innovation ...
This inventor is determined to improve the quality of life for prosthetic foot users
It is estimated that there are more than 300,000 amputees in South Africa, many from lower-income households unable to afford quality, if any, prosthetic legs, which can cost upwards of R100,000. This, against the ...
Meet the Intervarsity Existing Business – General category winners
When Mr Tumelo Ratala took to the stage to receive his award as a winner in the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity, he explained why he, foremost, had to thank himself. The University of South Africa ...
Recognising the unsung heroes of university entrepreneurship
While the annual Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) Awards (which took place in Johannesburg recently) are primarily a celebration of student innovators and entrepreneurs, they also pay tribute to the universities themselves and their ...
Students showcase entrepreneurial prowess at competition finals
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) student entrepreneurs pulled out all the stops at two notable entrepreneurship competitions – reinforcing the university’s commitment to nurturing a pipeline of young entrepreneurial minds, and the students’ ...
USAf honours the late Professor Keolebogile Motaung at the annual EDHE Awards event
The absence of one of South Africa’s most decorated black female scientists, academics and entrepreneurs – the late Professor Keolebogile Shirley Motaung, who passed away on November 12 – was solemnly acknowledged at the ...