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AgriPlanner Training

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June 6, 2017

The Alabimi Bhezakhaya – Agri Planner programme is funded by Coronation Fund Managers. Community gardeners were selected by Alabimi Bhezakhaya to attend the AgriPlanner Training Programme. These gardeners are from the areas of Khayelitsha and Gugulethu in Cape Town, Western Cape. These gardener’s supply their fresh produce on a weekly basis to Abalimi for the Harvest of Hope Project. The Harvest of Hope Project is a community fresh produce market that sells the vegetables collected from the farmers/gardeners at a pre-determined price. The...

Agri Co-Operatives

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May 5, 2017

Siyazisiza is a Non Profit Company based in Empangeni, Kwa Zulu Natal. Empangeni is a town situated in the north of Durban in the hilly countryside. A total of eight farms were visited in the district in March 2017. Two were in Nkandla, one in Eshowe and five in Ulundi. All farms specialise in vegetable production as their main source of farming. Poultry and herb farming are also practised, but on a much smaller scale. Of the farmers. 79.5% are female with land...

AgriSchool Project

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May 5, 2017

The AgriSchool programme has been funded by Coronation Fund Managers. 28 Schools have been identified for the AgriSchool Training, to date 21 schools have received their initial training. Learners mainly from Grade 5 and 6 are selected from these schools to attend the training. Approximately 20-30 learners per school are given the opportunity to participate in the AgriSchool programme. Learners are taken through various phases of the project such as land preparation and readiness, planting, garden maintenance, harvesting and selling. This programme also allows learners...

ABSA School Entrepreneurship Stars Challenge 2016

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September 15, 2016

Introduction The Judging and Award Ceremony for Grade 10 learners was conducted in four provinces, namely Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu Natal Thirty nine schools in total participated in this Challenge. The Ceremony was a culmination of a range of activities at these schools that started in November 2015, including training, monitoring and support, learner diagnostic assessments and motivational talks. Challenge Itself Learners were formed in teams of 5 and were challenged to generate 10 business ideas which would consider originality, creativity...

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

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May 16, 2016

“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

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February 24, 2016

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.

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February 22, 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

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November 6, 2015

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

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September 1, 2015

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

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August 15, 2015

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...