AfriSam empowers local entrepreneurs | Roodepoort Record

 

AfriSam (a provider of development components) available absolutely free organization capabilities coaching to 24 nearby business people. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Business enterprise Progress Centre.

As element of the company’s Company Development Programme, the graduates properly done a four-months organization expertise programme developed to assist entrepreneur and company owners shut to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof functions in Gauteng.

Betty Masinge and Peter Molete. Picture: Lungi Ndimande.

“At AfriSam, we realize that increasing tiny, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is crucial for broadening financial participation and delivering on our country’s financial advancement objectives” explained Jabu Motlhako, Company and Supplier Advancement Skilled at AfriSam

In accordance Jabu, AfriSam’s Organization and Provider Growth Programme identifies, empowers and enhances the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that work in shut proximity to the company’s functions. A different important goal of the programme is to give the entrepreneurs with the important assist and develop them to expand their corporations and in the long run be incorporated in AfriSam’s database of registered suppliers.

Enterpreneurs, Nouleen Matsane, Mac Matsane, Siyabonga Kubayi, Themba Khanyile and Melissa Duma. Picture: Lungi Ndimande.

AfriSam chosen 24 black SMMEs from communities shut to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the teaching programme. The business owners were from different industries ranging from catering, design and residence improvement.”The coaching was quite advantageous to me for the reason that it included a assortment of matters these types of as beginning a organization and keeping it, as very well as dealing with the funds. I have also learnt how to do my corporation profile. I will be capable to go again to my community and utilize the unemployed youth,” mentioned Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The business will also be assisting five of the graduating SMMEs with place of work space for concerning 12 and 36 months at its Small business Growth Centre.