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Empowering Student Women Entrepreneurs in South African Public Universities
South Africa’s 16 Days of Activism Against Women and Children this year embraces the theme “30 Years of Advancing Collective Action to End Violence ...
Messages of support and high praise bestowed on the EDHE team by Intervarsity 2024 partners
Sponsor organisations that make some of the projects undertaken by the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme possible, were among the star-studded crowd at ...
Raising Innovation as EDHE and French Embassy Launch AI and Blue Tech Incubation Programme
The journey from a great idea to a thriving business often demands more than passion and perseverance; it requires structured support, access to resources, ...
Third place for Quantity Surveying Professor at EDHE Learning and Teaching Excellence Awards #R2bP
Reasons to be Proud - #R2bP: Professor Gerrit Crafford from Mandela University’s Department of Quantity Surveying secured a third place win at the annual EDHE ...
Intervarsity 2023 winner pledges to give back to the EDHE programme that supported him
There was thunderous applause when a young student farmer from rural Eastern Cape and Studentpreneur of 2023, committed at the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity finals ...
Disability solution seeking turns into an award-winning business for a dyslexic medical student
Nothile Ngema turned her dyslexia and slow speech into a winning business, e-Aggrandizer, that won her the Existing Business: Tech category prize and R20 ...
Helping a sister study leads innovator to a prize winning tutoring and mentoring business
Bridget’s Learning Hub, an e-learning hub that provides tutoring and mentoring services to primary and high school students all across South Africa, won its ...
Turning ugly fruit into nutritious smoothies wins studentprenuer an Intervarsity award
As a little girl growing up in Limpopo, Ayavuya Sibisi watched her mother create delicious, nutritious smoothies using fresh, seasonal fruits that were always ...
Greatfuel produces biodiesel from cooking oil
“Can you drive Africa? Well, I can.” So began Hope Mapheto, founder of Greatfuel, her business which was established in 2021 and produces biodiesel ...
Banana wine wins its maker the top Social Impact prize at Intervarsity finals
When Anga Mzozo, co-founder of winning business AL Winery in the Existing Business: Social Impact category said Bye Nana at the end of her ...
A DHET chief director applauds six years of entrepreneurial innovation at students’ intervarsity award ceremony
The EDHE programme represents an important contribution to transformation in Higher Education in terms of growing studentpreneurship, developing an entrepreneurial mindset in academics across ...
SMU’s star innovator claims top honour at the 2024 EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity Awards
In a resounding affirmation of its growing stature as a leader in academic excellence and innovation, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) celebrates the ...
Drug re-invention wins young pharmacist R100 000 and Studentpreneur of 2024 title
“I hate death. I want to save our people.” These words have driven the overall winner of the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2024, 28-year-old Emmanuel Kiyonga, ...
The EDHE Intervarsity national finals event draws a prestigious high level crowd
The Director: Entrepreneurship, Universities South Africa (USAf), Dr Edwell Gumbo, began his opening address by naming those on the guestlist that included vice-chancellors, their ...
New French partnership with USAf calls for AI and Blue Ocean Tech researchers
The Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme is going international through the French Embassy in South Africa. These were the introductory words ...
Build differently: global tech opportunities for SA Entrepreneurs
“One in four people in the world will be African by 2050,” declared global entrepreneur Ms Christine Souffrant Ntim at a roundtable discussion hosted ...
Beyond the classroom: SWEEP empowers the next generation of women entrepreneurs
“Success doesn't happen overnight,” Ms Zana Boshoff, Project Manager for Universities South Africa's (USAf) Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme emphasised in a ...
Rural Development and Agrarian Reform impressed with work on food security
“We are here to create a learning network, share ideas, benchmark, and ensure that we make a difference in the lives of the people ...
Transforming entrepreneurship education; Elona Ndlovu’s perspective
During Day 2 of the 3rd Higher Education Conference by Universities South Africa, Ms Elona Ndlovu, a Chartered Coach and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at ...
Sustainable development goals present viable opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship – Kerrin Myres
South Africa, though plaqued by huge social problems in the midst of rich natural resources, also presents significant opportunities in sustainable entrepreneurship – if ...
Audience insights on work-integrated learning and the responsibility of universities
Entrepreneurship Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) and the Responsibility of Universities brought to the fore, the gaps warranting attention at universities, if entrepreneurship education is to ...
Preparing graduates for an ever-evolving world
The man who prides himself for creating youth-centred brand experiences offered some insightful counsel to universities at the recent Higher Education Conference in October. ...
Murimbika’s vision for Higher Education is to transform universities into innovation catalysts
At the October Higher Education Conference of Universities South Africa (USAf), Dr McEdward Murimbika, Director at the University of the Witwatersrand’s (WITS) Centre for ...
Innovative teaching approaches could yield most career-ready, entrepreneurial graduates – Olebogeng Selebi
Today’s high levels of youth unemployment and increasing graduate unemployability strengthen the business case for more innovative approaches to teaching, if universities are to ...
Inhlanyelo Hub Launches Bosadi Fashion Design Startup Programme
Johannesburg, South Africa – Inhlanyelo Hub introduced the Bosadi Fashion Design Startup Programme, an initiative aiming to empower South Africa’s budding fashion designers by ...