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Zak Essa

Zak Essa is Innovative Finance Consultant at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, based at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.

Latest Work

Cutting employment programmes now will bring disaster and despair to South Africa

WORK CUT OUT OP-ED

26 October 2023

Cutting employment programmes now will bring disaster and despair to South Africa

By Zak Essa

3 min

Entrepreneurship is a risky pathway – the Social Employment Fund helps cushion that

ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OP-ED

3 October 2023

Entrepreneurship is a risky pathway – the Social Employment Fund helps cushion that

By Zak Essa

4 min

Social enterprises could be an answer to South Africa’s development challenges, but investors are in short supply

OP-ED

28 September 2021

Social enterprises could be an answer to South Africa’s development challenges, but investors are in short supply

By Zak Essa

4 min

DM is much better if you are signed in...

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Latest Work

Cutting employment programmes now will bring disaster and despair to South Africa

Entrepreneurship is a risky pathway – the Social Employment Fund helps cushion that

Social enterprises could be an answer to South Africa’s development challenges, but investors are in short supply