Enterprise Development

Enterprise Development

Building local SMMEs through training, mentorship and income-generating assets — turning a dining-room business into a solar-powered workshop.

Kasi Clothing solar-powered container workshop
24
SMMEs through CIDP
17
Hanover entrepreneurs
8 months
Programme depth

Hanover Entrepreneur Development Programme

17 entrepreneurs trained 3–4 days a week over 8 months. Top business plans received R10,000 in cash assets plus a 12-month mentorship. Topics covered profiling, marketing, legal, financial and strategic management.

SAICA Enterprise Development

8 SMMEs incubated with financial management, marketing and skills training plus starter-pack equipment (April 2022 – June 2023).

Disrupt Technology CIDP

24 SMMEs supported over 3 years in Construction Industry Development — compliance, H&S, project management, contracts and opportunity mapping.

SMME spotlights

Fihlani Royal Piggery (women-owned, Britstown — 32 pigs and a pig-house build). Mitoch Catering (home kitchen to fully-equipped mobile food truck). ND Walters Bakery (leaking shack to air-conditioned kitchen container). Kasi Clothing (dining-room embroidery to 6m solar container with a 15-needle machine). Runcies Enterprise (garage chisa nyama to a solar-electrified container).