Build differently: global tech opportunities for SA Entrepreneurs
“One in four people in the world will be African by 2050,” declared global entrepreneur Ms Christine Souffrant Ntim at a roundtable discussion hosted by Universities South Africa (USAf) on Monday, 18 November 2024. Speaking to student women entrepreneurs as part of a United States (US) Embassy’s Speaker Programme, Ntim framed the demographic reality of Africa’s growing youth rate — not as a challenge, but as “an immense opportunity” for African entrepreneurs.
This roundtable was targeted at coordinators and chapter executives of the Student Women Economic Empowerment Programme (SWEEP), an initiative under USAf’s Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme. Hosted from USAf’s Kopanong Boardroom in Hatfield, Pretoria, the hybrid gathering had attracted 37 representatives from all 17 of the SWEEP chapters nationwide, most of whom joined the meeting online except two from the Sefako Makgatho University of Health Sciences in Pretoria (SMU), who attended in person alongside the senior USAf and EDHE officials.