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Meagan Roos

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Meagan Roos

Farmer Phumlani Mpofu, left, and CED founder Lihle Mayila demonstrate the KhuselaGuard livestock monitoring system during a field trial in the Sundays River Valley

Eastern Cape innovation offers defence against livestock theft

A locally developed technology designed to help farmers monitor and protect their livestock could offer a new approach to one of SA’s oldest agricultural challenges.

Unity in Africa’s iGEMS programme helps pupils from schools across Nelson Mandela Bay with critical skills needed to fill employment gaps in the city

Unity in Africa programme reaps employment benefits in the technical field

What started with a question about the future of young people in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro has grown into a decade-long initiative helping to develop the engineers and problem-solvers of tomorrow.

Recruitment consultancy owner Jackie Cory is celebrating her business's 10th year of placing people in jobs
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Finding employment for people her reward

What began as a decision to take the lead has grown into a recruitment business celebrating a decade of connecting people with opportunities across the Eastern Cape.

GQ Creamery founder Thando Volontiya celebrates the business’s victory in the Eastern Cape regional round of the 2026 Standard Bank Kasi SME Pitch Challenge.

Hand-crafted ice-cream takes the cake

Gqeberha-based GQ Creamery has scooped the Eastern Cape regional title in the 2026 Standard Bank Kasi SME Pitch Challenge, taking the gelato and ice-cream business one step closer to the national finals and a R1m grand prize.

Helen McLean and Shane McLean in front of Preferred Solutions new headquarters

Walmer move marks new era for business solutions provider

What began as a small part-time accounting venture in the 1990s has grown into one of the Eastern Cape’s longstanding business solutions providers, with a recent move to new headquarters in Walmer marking a new chapter in the company’s…

Thando Volontiya, the owner of GQ Creamery Gelato Ice Cream Café in Newton Park, shows what he has to offer.

Popular ice-cream shop built on passion and creativity

For Thando Volontiya, the owner of GQ Creamery Gelato Ice Cream Café in Newton Park, the journey was never carefully planned.

Backbone Security founder and owner Marcel Combrinck

Backbone Security ‘goes beyond traditional armed response’

Company positions itself as a new kind of private security provider in Gqeberha