Going through podcasts like #Business Wars, you will by now have realized that some of the greatest entrepreneurs were motivated by an indignation they felt over injustice, mistreatment, or simply a bad service. As an entrepreneur never waste your energy on unnecessary complaints; turn it into an energy to produce something better! Let me give you a recent example: I was looking…
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Tigo Tanzania launched a service that allows all Tigo Pesa customers to send and receive cash on their mobile money wallets from M-PESA in Kenya, MTN in Uganda and MTN and Airtel in Rwanda. The service now ensures that Tigo Pesa customers are connected to all major mobile money serivces across the East African region a move that will grow…
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Can you adapt? In my career as an entrepreneur I have often had to adapt to very dramatic and drastic changes in circumstances, again and again. Usually it is not of my making. Today, the 22nd of March, it will have been 20 years since I was told that if I did not get out of my country that day,…
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As an entrepreneur, if someone asks you, “How does the Clean City or a similar ‘Uber type’ business model actually make money?” would you be able to take a pen and paper to explain how it works? This week I have asked the CEO of Clean City, one of our companies in Harare, to do just that. First the backstory:…
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As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, women and girls are more vulnerable than ever. With the world staying at home due to the pandemic, we see a rise in sexual and gender based violence including domestic violence. It is a double pandemic for women and girls. Domestic violence keeps exponentially increasing and faster than the COVID -19 in…
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Governments across the globe are doing everything possible to protect jobs and ensure certainty amidst #Convid-19 pandemic. One of the strategies is to keep businesses intact, so that they can hit the ground running (to the greatest extent possible) when the economy reopens, instead of leaving behind mass business casualties and an economic depression in the wake of the virus.…
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By Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, Chairman Board of Directors UTAMU In December 2019, UTAMU acquired 20.43 acres of land on Block 82 Plot 6 Kkungu, Matugga, Kyaddondo, Wakiso District on leasehold register of 49 years from the Kampala Catholic Archdiocese Land Board for the UTAMU Research and Innovation City. The UTAMU campus in Kkungu, Matugga, Kyaddondo, Wakiso District, which is approximately…
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Namely,: *You can walk to and from home and it is fine. It is not that you are broke or mad or trying to exercise. It is ok to walk to work. *You can ride a bicycle 8km to work. Again it not for weirdos, everyone can. Hopefully City and town councils will make it safer for the riders. *We…
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BY BOBI WINE & GREG MILLS. Coronavirus has laid bare the failures of aid. Instead of it being wasted or used to prop up big men, it must now serve the people’s interests. COVID-19 has changed the world. Among other things in Africa, it could lead to significant setbacks in the fight against poverty as developed countries turn inwards. The nature…
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Kati, recently I posted an inbox feedback after seeking her permission to do so of person who was grateful for helping her unlearn something. A lot of men not all seemed to blame her but let me share my personal experience. Am right now reading 3 chapters of proverbs daily and it’s always amazing reading this particular book in the…
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