Agriculture, forestry and fishing

Umthi Nolwazi (Pty) Ltd. is a startup company that draws strength from a closed NPO Umthi Wolwazi, which is an award-winning organisation, that sort to address the need for good nutrition in schools and communities, to address food insecurity in our country and promote healthy ecosystems through education and planting of fruit trees in schools, orphanages and cluster homes. Umthi Nolwazi aims at refining this method and operation through technology and bring about change in disadvantaged communities and peri-urban and rural areas. 

An innovative textile and electronics products manufacturing company, based in the heart of the North West province. We vision to create innovative textile-tech solutions to can address social problems. 

Ecology Africa Foundation is a non-profitable organisation that is family founded between father and son. We decided to incorporate three of our different interesting causes we are passionate about;

• Nature conservation
• Climate change
• Youth life orientation

Our plan and strategy is to operate these three courses separately and independently within one umbrella called Ecology Africa Foundation. The strategy behind this is to save and share resources.

• Exporters Eastern Cape is a member based non-profit organisation that facilitate conversations, information and collaboration in the Eastern Cape export market.  

The organisation’s mission is to encourage more local firms to prepare themselves to take on the challenge of exporting and to assist existing exporters to become more globally competitive.

Industries represented by our members include automotive manufacturers, OE motor manufacturers and component suppliers, agricultural and agri-processing (fruit, dairy, mohair, wool, etc.), service providers for exporters, shipping lines

Yarena Multi-Purpose Project is a start-up co-operative organization formed in 2019 by a group of five directors. Established to better advance rural community development. One of the agricultural process design program, they would like to introduce is aimed to cater for South Africans who love freshly produced 100% juices in the local fruits market and build their brand for its success within local customers. The fruit juice product is a new product we intend to prepare and created in various juice flavours to meet the needs of the potential customers in the business market of fruits drinking

Sol Plaatje University (SPU) opened in 2014, the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South Africa. It is also the first university to be established in the Northern Cape Province.

Positioning itself as a niche university, SPU offers academic programmes of a high intellectual nature in fields that meet the needs of the South African thrust to develop a nation that is proud of its heritage and roots.

Thuni Farms specialises in; 

1. Agriculture, environment and technical advisory.
2. Community farming development and infrastructure 
3. Farm Development and Mant

mLab is a tech-centred business working alongside partners to build a vibrant, robust innovation ecosystem. We do this by identifying and nurturing the tech-talent among our youth, supporting budding tech-entrepreneurs and their fledgling businesses, and creating tech that brings about change and improves the lives of all South Africans. We also run a number of pan-African programmes to broaden the reach and impact of our participants and stakeholders alike.

mLab Southern Africa is a registered nonprofit organisation and Level 1 B-BBEE service provider focusing on Skills and Enterprise

United Youth for Sustainable Globe (UYSG) is one of the Global Youth Voluntary ideas transforming organization. Started in Nigeria 2020 and has grown to do the Advocacy movement involving Youth from around the globe.  

The main aim of UYSG is to motivate and empower young minds, promote entrepreneurship, development socially and economically, strengthening the democracy social justice, creating a platform for communication and opportunities, building a global network for making a sustainable, liveable and peaceful world. 

The vision of UYSG is to empower youth and build their capacities for

At RIIS, we work right at the intersection of corporate strategy, socio-economic development and entrepreneurship & innovation. By combining these three disciplines and not treating them as mutually exclusive areas, we have continuously partnered with our clients to drive them to new levels of success.



We have worked with a range of private and public sector organisations to improve the way in which they can plan for and respond to a changing world. In particular, we help organisations accelerate their innovation programmes through collaboration and partnerships across their value chain. In