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SAIE’s New Venture Creation Learnership – A Luck By Chance for Carol Mqeni

“Since childhood, my life has been a roller coaster ride. I was born in a family with four other siblings and today we are just three of us left. My marriage ended soon, but left me with three beautiful children, two boys and one girl. I live my life very independently and am not afraid to say that I am extremely business-minded. For 11 years straight, I worked as a waitress in a restaurant in Cape Town on Loop Street....

Gugulethu’s well established entrepreneur, Mr Mzoli Ngcawuzele, at SAIE’s NVCL Academy

SAIE Entrepreneurs welcomed with widened smiles and joyful excitement,  one of Gugulethu’s well established entrepreneurs Mr Mzoli Ngcawuzele during one of the New Venture Creation classes. Mr S. Roomanay, Head of SAIE Academy, has just wrapped up one of the Management Skills, Leadership & Labour relations module when the class was graced with his presence. Mr Mzoli, briefly gave the class his entrepreneur 101 experience of his  world famous Thisa Nyama establishment called Mzoli’s, and notably highlighted that is was his...

ABSA Sponsored School Entrepreneurship Programme Launched in Five Provinces, February 2016.

The ABSA sponsored School Entrepreneurship programme, in association with the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship (SAIE), was launched in five provinces in January 2016 – Eastern Cape (East London), Free State (Phuthaditjhaba), Northern Cape (Barkley West), and KwaZulu-Natal (Pinetown). The School Entrepreneurship programme is of high priority for ABSA and SAIE. The programme is in line with the government’s objective to develop entrepreneurs in order to create sustainable employment and reduce poverty. Fifty high schools from across the five provinces are participating...

SAIE’s New Venture Creation Learnership Programme

SAIE’s Vision – A dynamic culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa that promotes entrepreneurial behaviour and the creation of jobs SAIE’s Mission – To achieve its vision of a dynamic culture of entrepreneurship in South Africa by developing programmes and methodologies that are underpinned by key entrepreneurial drivers and to ensure that they are effectively delivered so that participants are motivated by these drivers and skilled in the tools required to start or improve businesses in SAIE’s chosen sectors What We Do...

Sydwell Nyakane Matabula Community Property Association (CPA), Mpumalanga

Sydwell Nyakane (29) is a man with a mission: to research the various segments of the agricultural industry and to explore business opportunities. Sydwell is the owner of Matabula CPA, a farm situated in the heart of White River, Mmbombela in Mpumalanga. The farm was established in 2006. Sydwell’s life has always revolved around farming and his mother has been his main inspiration and a pillar of strength. Sydwell completed the SAIE Agriplanner training that empowered him to expand his...

Thapelo Edwin Mwale Letlhabile Information Technology Centre, North West

Thapelo Edwin Mwale (26) was one of the beneficiaries of the Absa-funded IT Skills programme. Participants attended a business simulation programme (the BEST Game) in 2013 for five days. Participants were then selected based on a number of criteria and had to compile a business plan for an IT centre and present it to a panel of judges. Four candidates out of a total of 40 were selected to manage and co-own the centre. Thapelo Mwale was one of them. He...