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The Centre for Entrepreneurship & Rapid Incubator (CfERI) was launched by the Vaal University of Technology in partnership with SEDA, Department Small Business Development (DSBD) in November 2017. The CfERI transitioned to Sol Plaatje University on 01 June 2021.

The purpose of the Centre for Entrepreneurship & Rapid Incubator:

• to support and enhance existing entrepreneurship initiatives in the ZFM District.
• encourage entrepreneurship amongst the youth and the unemployed.
• establish sustainable businesses that can lead to job creations.
• support female and disabled entrepreneurs.

The West Coast College has established the CFERI through funding provided by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) to promote youth entrepreneurship and mitigate the constraints associated with the failure of youth owned start- up and early stage enterprises within the first three years of establishment. We aim to support start-up and early stage previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs with resources and services to increase their success which is measured by profitable and self- sustaining growth- oriented ventures that will contribute to the creation of jobs and economic growth in

The Daily Grind Hub is a facility with space for thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs to get the support, coaching, and mobilisation they need. 

The Daily Grind Hub offers the following services; 

1. Incubation 
   • Pre-Incubation: Innovation assessment, business plan, business modelling and training
   • Incubation: Access to finance and coaching and mentoring, hosting, training, commercialization, and advanced business planning. 
   • Post-Incubation: Innovation diagnostics, international support, technology commercialization, clustering business development. 
2. Co-Working Spaces
3. Codetrepre

MIC Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.

Our investment focus is innovative and highly disruptive black-owned South African businesses across diverse high-growth sectors.

Click here to apply. 

Industry 4.0 is all we are talking about, while the world is doing industry 4.0, Africa is still thinking about it.

Companies are always looking for ways to improve their Key Performance Indicators. We saw a gap in the market to use IoT as a vehicle to digitalization.

We provide productivity solutions using IoT (internet of things), our solutions also include Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, and Big Data Analytics. We offer the full IoT ecosystem to revitalise the manufacturing sector.

Most manufacturing companies collect data but they are not using it. We use smart sensors to

Amnova Tech is at the forefront of making it possible for people and organizations to create on a scale that has never been thought possible. We manufacture a variety of proprietary additive manufacturing technologies, ranging from large-format industrial hybrid 3D printers to educational 3D printers.

Utilize our technology to bring your concepts to life, and use our rapid prototyping services to get your products to market more quickly.

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is a South African-based agency established primarily to address challenges faced by the nation’s youth. 

NYDA Products and Services 

• National Youth Service Programme
• Education and Skills
• NYDA Grant Programme 
• NYDA Voucher Programme 
• Business Management Training 
• Mentorship
• Market Linkages
• Sponsorship & Thuso Fiund
• Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu Scholarship Fund 

The objective of the Jobs Fund is to co-finance projects by public, private and non-governmental organisations that will significantly contribute to job creation. This involves the use of public money to catalyse innovation and investment on behalf of a range of economic stakeholders in activities that contribute directly to enhanced employment creation in South Africa.

To address the challenge of unemployment, South Africa requires high rates of sustained economic growth. South Africa’s macro-economic policy environment, infrastructure asset base, schooling system and regulatory frameworks