Regional winners are budding stars of the provincial firmament
Promise Zama: D’Urban Glam Boutique (KZN)
Operating in the main cities across KwaZulu-Natal, D’Urban Glam Boutique provides not only the latest fashion but also offers an exclusive personal stylist’s service, inclusive of a detailed style assessment. The boutique will also make use of its mobile Fashion Truck to feature at special events across the region, and at the start of each year will also extend its territory by identifying schools in rural areas to which school uniform and sports gear can be supplied.
Lwandile Ketile: Smart Loans (Port Elizabeth)
Smart Loans is a business that seeks to alleviate poverty through micro-lending and job creation. Ketile submitted a business plan for his unique business idea of starting a lawn-mowing business, with the ultimate goal of using the profits from his business to develop a micro-lending business called Smart Loans.
Jo-Anne Combrink: We Go Green Packaging and Courier Services (Cape Town)
Combrink aims to positively impact on the environment with her recycling and packaging business by means of its mobile offering. We Go Green Packaging and Courier Services seeks to turn the industry “green” by bringing the packaging material to the client and making use of a hand-held device to log sender and recipient details electronically, thereby saving clients both time, and reducing the use of paper.
Mosa Hope Mapheto: My Tomorrow Academy (Limpopo):
Mapheto submitted a business plan for her emerging business, My Tomorrow Academy. This will be a smallholder farming enterprise that specialises in primary production of fresh produce and in particularly vegetables, in an effort to uplift the region’s rural unemployed youth. The business has the ultimate intention of empowering the youth to consider entrepreneurship opportunities rather than relying on government.
Sibusiso David Mvulane: Leratong Tourism (Johannesburg)
Mvulane submitted a business plan for his start-up company, Leratong Tourism – an adventure company based in Leratong Village and found on the foothills of the MalotiDrakensberg mountains. The business will offer horseriding trails between Lesotho and South Africa, as well as overnight cave treks into the Golden Gate National Park in the Free State on the Lesotho border. Clients would be able to view indigenous flowers and watch game in their natural habitat by horseback.
Lefu William Ngake: Williamson Home (Free State/ Northern Cape)
Williamson Home is a start-up company that seeks to provide modern and urban home décor, homeware, bedding and an eclectic accessory range to customers that are seeking to create a personalised, but elegant ambiance, whilst still conserving a “home-sweet-home” feeling.
Kenny Khalenga: De Guru Cyber Café (Mpumalanga)
De Guru Cyber Café is a business that provides full access to email, the internet and other internet applications such as Telnet and Gopher, in an innovative setting, one that is complete with a food and beverage offering, and seeks to create an educational and entertaining atmosphere for the Mpumalanga community.