“Midas of the dump” 1 “Damn!” Sucking the oozing blood from his finger, the young man motions to his elderly hireling. “Load this in the trailer please” he says after he weighs the finds on his heavy-duty scale. He rarely helps mine for scraps these days. Before he got someone to help him do the [...]

by Elmarie Bouwer  The spark plug3 with the ice-blue eyes I had come to him for answers. Unprepared. The blaze in his impossibly blue eyes pinned me to my seat and as he started talking, my misconceptions shrivelled away right there…right then. The passion that exuded from him did not come from a text book [...]

by Elmarie Bouwer   Someone once said that the wheels of western civilization (now eastern too) run on oil. This truism speaks of universalism and in this context, equally seems to apply to the concept of entrepreneurship that underpins so much of our global day to day living.  Setting the stage Entrepreneurship. What is it? [...]

by Elmarie Bouwer Imagine that you’re lying on a sun drenched beach in your favourite spot, sipping pina coladas. While watching the surf and local talent in a lazy daze, every little bit of disproportionate body fat you have starts dissolving away as if by magic. If you’re a guy, your six-pack and calves magically [...]