Below please find a selection of the more recent media articles featuring Fetola, our supporters and beneficiaries:
- Catherine Wijnberg profiled in Finweek – Nov 2011 – read the article here.
- Fetola featured in the Business Report, Cape Times Thursday 20/10/201 – read the article here.
- Catherine Wijnberg interviewed by Entrepreneurship Africa 28/09/2011 – take a listen here.
- Fetola profiled in Design Magazine (July 2011) - read the full article by clicking here.
- Fetola beneficiary urban africa profiled in Design Indaba magazine – read the article by clicking on the following link: http://www.designindaba.com/news-snippet/second-skin
- Fetola SME Accelerator Programme Participant in Sawubona (April 2011) – Read the article on All Women Recycling here.
- Legends Beneficiary Profiled in SAA Inflight Magazine! (March 2011) – Read about Umcebo Trust here.
- Heartfelt Hits the Big Time! (February 2011) – Read about this amazing project here.
- Catherine Wijnberg of Fetola interviewed on Classic FM (Feb 2011)- Hear Catherine talking to Tony Blewitt by clicking on the following link: http://www.classic.co.za/talk/the-sme-show/podcasts/tony-talks-to-catherine-wijnberg-director-fetola-associates
- Chimpel Article and Profile (Business Day, November 2010) - Majda Rabin from Chimpel is an up-and-coming designer and entrepreneur and member of our SMME Accelerator Programme. Read more about her and her luxury leather brand in this great piece in Business Day here
- Education is the Key to Unleashing the Power of Women (Business Day, August 2010) - The latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor shows that in South Africa men are 1.6 times more likely to succeed as business owners than women. Read more here
- Get Educated About the Business World (Bloem News, July 2010) – PEOPLE wanting to learn more about the world of business have the ideal opportunity to learn more on the matter. Read more here
- Finland May Fill Our Middle Class Gap (Business Day, July 2010) – SA IS a wonderful country … sort of,” muses Tiina Myllyntausta, the Finnish ambassador in SA, based in Pretoria. “The infrastructure is good but the difference between rich and poor — that gap is the biggest in the whole world.” Read more here
- Sewing the Seeds of Empowerment (Sawubona Magazine, August 2010) – The ancient art of hand embroidery has been the catalyst for a social enterprise that has trained and empowered more than 180 township women over the past 17 years. Read more here
- A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out (Sawubona Magazine, Feb 2010) - A community based project in Cape Town is rewriting the rulebook for sustainable social development and true empowerment – and changing lives in the process – by focussing on business before charity. Read more here
- Finland Develops SA SMME’s (Big News, Nov 2009) – A NEW project funded by the Embassy of Finland aims to support the development of established small-scale manufacturing businesses, with a special focus on the handcraft and furniture sectors. Read more here
