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SIX MONTHS INTO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE FATE OF MOST SMALL BUSINESSES REMAINS UNCERTAIN. THE FEW LEFT ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. SKILLED LABORERS ARE WITHOUT JOBS AND THE COUNTRY FACES AN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS. ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE SNAPSHOTS OF SOME PARTS OF THE ECONOMY SLOWLY CRAWLING BACK TO LIFE.

‘The Digital Economy Is An Extremely Powerful, Transparent Tool'

What are the big corporates thinking? Raghu Malhotra, the Dubai-based president of mastercard Middle East & Africa, on developing clear frameworks for the current crisis, and why digital transformation is more important now than ever before.

Life Must Go On

Temie Giwa-Tubosun supplies blood to hospitals and oxygen to Covid-19 patients in Nigeria. The special deliveries arrive with doses of compassion and hope.

Thinking Out Of The Box: Creating Shared Value And A Country Of Entrepreneurs

Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa’s initiative, Bizniz in a Box, meaningfully empowers youth and women to create and scale viable micro-businesses in the country’s communities.

Where All Routes Lead To Good Health

Through the Project Last Mile partnership, Coca-Cola works with African governments to leverage its extensive distribution network to deliver health commodities and life-saving medication to the continent’s remotest regions.

App You Like It

The newly-established delivery app industry in Tanzania is serving up old business in a new format, diversifying the e-commerce market and driving consumer behavior beyond Covid-19.

Pfizer's Covid Moon Shot

Albert Bourla has boldly predicted his company might find and distribute a vaccine by this fall. The first look inside a $1 billion bet that could change the world.

The People's Banker

In 1993, Dr James mwangi walked away from a promising career at one of Kenya’s largest banks, to join the equity building society. Three decades on, few could have predicted his entrepreneurial leadership would work to transform not just equity but the financial services of the region. Forbes Africa meets the man behind East Africa’s billion-dollar banking empire.

A Day In The Fields, A Lifetime In Fashion

Tsholanang Mathibe never let her humble upbringing come in the way of her big dreams designing for the rich and famous in South Africa.

Blockchain To Track Your Tea?

How this Tanzanian entrepreneur’s tea startup is weathering the Covid-19 storm.

Covid-19: Africa's Gender Pandemic

From New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Covid-19 has been shining a light on women and paving the way for new thinking in global leadership. But, in Africa, has it been so? A look through the gender lens of the pandemic.

The Billionaire's Startup

The world is awash in streaming services, and Meg Whitman already had her fortune — but then Jeffrey Katzenberg came calling with a mobile-focused startup. With nearly $1.8 billion raised and America on lockdown, consumers may have no choice but to try Quibi.

‘WFH' Here To Stay?

The home will be hub and flexible working the norm. The result? Renewed employee trust, wellness and cost savings, say more companies.

The Leading Voice In Telling The African Story

On June 1, CNBC Africa celebrates 13 years of relaying boundless stories of economic growth and prosperity on the African continent. It achieved its objective of changing the narrative and continues to do so with relentless reporting in the time of Covid-19.

Start Of The Mask Economy

Even the most unconventional businesses, such as a Cape Town candy shop, are selling masks to face off the economic crisis.

Empty Roads, Occupied Minds

With a deadly virus still lurking in the streets and tougher times ahead, traders in South Africa’s colorful townships desperately look to resuscitate their businesses with creative offerings online.

Fast Virus. Slow Growth.

Ghana and Nigeria brace for the economic nightmare ahead, even as the region’s billionaires, entrepreneurs and innovators chip in for the fight against Covid-19.

Beyond The Lockdown: What Big Business Is Doing Now

Corporate Africa has to urgently pandemic-proof itself with new ideas, innovations and emotions, to merely stay alive fighting a marauding virus.

Covid-19: The Ultimate Disruptor

The coronavirus has rebooted every aspect of life as we know it. Across Africa, home-grown ideas and smallscale technological innovations are coming to the fore to help combat it.

STAYING FLEXIBLE

The 19-year-old South African gymnast was all set for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in July, for which she had qualified. With the event’s postponement, her goal hasn’t changed, she says, only the timeline has.

All Home And No Play

Not since World War II has the global sports industry faced such a crippling crisis, which is likely to cost billions of dollars in lost revenue and could yet see the permanent extinction of some teams and competitions.

Coronavirus - Testing Times

For Africa’s two biggest economies already suffering ailing growth, Covid-19 has checked in at a vulnerable time.

Once Upon A Dreamer

Rapper 21 Savage headlines a formidable list of Forbes Under 30 alumni who grew up undocumented — and are now inspiring change to help their peers.

A $500 Million Consortium And Global Stage For Africa

For now, plans continue for Expo 2020 Dubai, dubbed the planet’s biggest show. And driving the Africa connection and youth development is Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s dynamic Minister for International Cooperation and Director General of the expo.

The Fundamental Steps In Finding Equality And Happiness

My visit to Durban in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province in the first week of March to attend the 2020 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit was a memorable one.

How To Prepare Your Business For The Contagion

With stock markets in steep decline, countries in quarantine, and cases of Covid-19 spreading rapidly around the globe, businesses have no option but to brace themselves for this raging pandemic.

THE ASCENT OF A NEW SPORT

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is only three months away, even as the coronavirus threatens to disrupt it. If it goes head, the Games will debut a new event called sport climbing, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa.

THE AFRO-OPTIMIST

Cheryl Buss, the UK-based CEO of Absa International, on her passion for Africa and its resilient, entrepreneurial mind-set.

NERVES OF STEEL

Self-made Ghanaian entrepreneur Nana Kwame Bediako bought his first car by age 16 and made a million pounds in the United Kingdom before he turned 21. The fearless, unabashedly ambitious property tycoon is now on a mission to transform Accra’s skyline.

LEADING THE CHARGE

AS 2020 USHERS IN A NEW DECADE AND A NEW SET OF DAUNTING CHALLENGES FOR THE WORLD – CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CORONAVIRUS – IT’S ALL THE MORE IMPERATIVE THAT THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST CONTINENT RISES TO THE CRISES AND SEES OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THERE SEEM TO BE NONE. THESE ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN FORGING AHEAD WITH CREDIBLE, CREATIVE AND PROFOUND STRATEGIES TO SHAPE OUR TOMORROW. CELEBRATING SIX YEARS OF THE FORBES AFRICA 30 UNDER 30 LIST, THEY ARE THE CONTINENT’S REVOLUTIONARY THINKERS REVITALIZING IDEAS AND INDUSTRIES WITH FRESH BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP.