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Kagiso Trust is a not for profit organisation involved in development space and supporting beneficiaries in the education, agriculture, civil society and municipalities.

The African Astronomical Society (Afas) is a Pan-African professional society of astronomers.

Vision: A globally competitive and collaborative astronomy community in Africa

Mission: To be the voice of astronomy in Africa and to contribute to addressing the challenges faced by Africa through the promotion and advancement of astronomy.

The Mitrovic Development & Research Institute (MDRI) offers high-quality development and research services to public, private and non-profit organisations that wish to advance and sustain their businesses.

High Commission of Canada in South Africa.

Achetes Online is a South African based e-commerce store. We supply essential goods, household items and fresh fruit and vegetables to buyers across South Africa. We recognized a need for a specific service offering to the market and deliver essential and grocery items directly to buyers to ensure they receive the best products from the comfort of their own homes.

With over 3000 monthly site visitors, we do the essential shopping for customers, as well as work with a network of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and deliver fresh food groceries and items to the customers' doorsteps

Khwezi Innovations was founded and registered in 2020, with an aim to connect and work with other young innovators in unlocking and expanding our imagination and innovative ideas to make life less stressful.



At Khwezi Innovations, we believe that the era we are living in allows us not only to dream, but to invent and equip ourselves so that we are fit and ready for the approaching 4th Industrial revolution.

In an effort to provide foundational support that has deep, long term positive impact on the wide pool of entrepreneurs who are mostly start-ups and small medium and micro-entrepreneurs within South Africa, Nozibele Solutions is a company spearheading the change and impact from the ground up. We have a foundation built on the values of Ubuntu, mindset change, economic emancipation and technology innovation to uplift and equip entrepreneurs with the mind and skill-set to overcome the common obstacles and limitations of business at the start-up and SMME level.

While there are a number of

Smartfill is a socially conscious smart retail solution for the modern retail environment; a sleek IoT dispenser that revolutionises retail.

The Smartfill IoT dispenser reduces the need for single use plastic packaging delivering a variety of food and cleaning products, streamlining the logistics process, and providing increased margins for retail store owners. All while reducing the impact of single use plastics on the environment.

A digital interface and built-in sensors allow customers to choose the exact amount of produce they would like dispensed by value or by weight. Seeing that there

DROPSIGHT (Pty) Ltd is a new start up company, wherein a proof of concept was developed to the point where a special UV Tracer spray deposition analysis can be performed on natural surfaces using a smartphone and the newly developed application, DROPSIGHT, in conjunction with a specially designed portable photographing laboratory, LEAFLAB.

This is the first ever tool that can be made available to all farmers, chemical companies and researchers to do in field analysis of the efficiency of chemical spray deposition onto natural plant targets, benchmarking it with the required biological control