30/08/2026
🎨 Financial Literacy for Creatives: Building a Financially Smart Creative Enterprise
One of the ideas that stayed with me is this:
Many creatives are already running real businesses, they just haven't formalised the administrative side yet.
The creative economy is not only about creating.
It is about understanding your value.
It is about knowing your numbers.
It is about pricing your work, managing irregular income, keeping financial records, understanding tax and compliance, protecting your intellectual property and building systems that allow your creativity to become sustainable.
Because creating value and capturing value are not always the same thing.
And that is where financial literacy becomes an economic capability for creatives.
At Mjojo Finance Play, we believe the conversation needs to move beyond:
“Artists need to learn business.”
towards:
“Creatives are already creating economic value. How do we equip them to understand, manage, protect and grow that value?”
Yesterday's conversation has given us plenty to keep exploring.
This is only the beginning of what we are calling:
MONEY SMART CREATIVES
Understanding Money, Value & Enterprise in South Africa's Creative Economy.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the conversation, our speakers, participants and the Money Smart Week South Africa platform for creating space for this important discussion.
