Knowledge You Can Engage With
Articles, media, and conversations shaping how entrepreneurship is understood.
The Learn platform brings together published opinion, podcast conversations, and book-based knowledge resources that connect township enterprise to national discourse, education, and institutional action.
Opinion & Thought Leadership
Published writing with a wider public life
These articles are credited to their original publishers and presented here as a curated reading stream. Each card opens the original source in a new tab so readers can continue directly on the publication site.
OPINION | Proper entrepreneurship education is SA's missing link
By Dr Steven Zwane. Read the full article on the original publication.
Read on Sowetan
12 Nov 2025
OPINION | Aim high, matrics, and claim what's yours!
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
08 Sep 2025
OPINION | Shaka iLembe isn't just entertainment, it's a bold reclaiming of heritage and enterprise
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
21 Aug 2025
OPINION | Women-led start-ups SA's untapped economic engine
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
15 Jul 2025
OPINION | Volunteer expertise to informal and small businesses
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
16 Jun 2025
OPINION | Today's youth face a different yet equally violent form of oppression - unemployment, economic exclusion ...
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
19 May 2025
STEVEN ZWANE | Side hustles are not sideshows but bedrock of new economy
Sowetan · Dr Steven Zwane
Public-facing entrepreneurship thought leadership
Case-driven learning grounded in South African realities
Media, podcasts, and commentary with institutional relevance
OPINION | SA's G20 presidency can be a game-changer for SMEs and economy
By Dr Steven Zwane
OPINION | SA needs to integrate entrepreneurship into education system
By Dr Steven Zwane
OPINION | Sneaker brand should be celebrated for its resilience in the face of adversity
By Dr Steven Zwane
STEVEN ZWANE | Succession planning: business lessons from US politics
By Dr Steven Zwane
STEVEN ZWANE | Let's inspire our youth to take an active role in shaping a better SA
By Dr Steven Zwane
STEVEN ZWANE | Time for SouthAfrica to rethink its approach, prioritise entrepreneurship
By Dr Steven Zwane
STEVEN ZWANE | Collaborative efforts, entrepreneurship culture can boost SA economy
By Dr Steven Zwane
STEVEN ZWANE | SA needs entrepreneurship education to empower youth and unleash growth
By Dr Steven Zwane
Featured Resource
Rising From The Township
The book sits at the centre of the wider RFTT knowledge platform: stories, interviews, frameworks, and entrepreneurial lessons gathered into a resource that can travel into classrooms, reading circles, institutions, and public dialogue.
Written by Dr Steven Zwane & Yamkela Khoza Tywakadi and published through Blank Page Books, it anchors the case-based learning approach behind the wider platform.
Podcast Features & Video Conversations
Watch the conversations on site
These YouTube conversations now play directly inside the site. Visitors can switch between interviews, book discussions, and entrepreneurship reflections without being pushed away from the RFTT experience.
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"Rising From The Township" - Imbizo Shisanyama Part 1: Rita Zwane
GIBS Business School
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External Lecture Recording
Dr S. Zwane Entrepreneurship Lecture
NWU Nextcloud
External lecture recording hosted on NWU Nextcloud.
Open Lecture Recording