Opening doors of opportunity

THE Downstream Aluminium Centre for Technology (DACT) incubation programme has opened doors of opportunity to many budding entrepreneurs who on their own would not have been able to progress.

This is according to Mthobisi Dlamini of Mabhuyeni, the co-founder of Thudelisiswe (Pty) Ltd, a steel fabrication SMME.

Dlamini said his love for business studies in high school inspired him to become an entrepreneur.

‘After high school I made the choice to start my own business. Because my business partner and I have always been creative and able to learn things very quickly, we joined forces to start the company.

‘I worked as an employees for one of DACT’s incubatees before starting my business and I would often see people working and creating steel gates or windows, and I knew we could do it.

‘In February we registered the business and started the programme.'

He said he is proud that through the business, he will be able to contribute to growing the

South African economy.

‘After finishing school most young people go job hunting.

'Yet government continues to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs.

'So my partner and I decided we had to create our own employment opportunity,' he said.

Dlamini said he is grateful for institutions such as DACT that provide a platform for small businesses to establish themselves.

‘We are all treated equally. No business is greater than the other.

'We are given equal attention and guidance, they do not discriminate,’ Dlamini said. Co-owner of Thudelisiswe (Pty) Ltd engineering company, Mthobisi Dlamini using a grinding machine