​Manufacturing

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 Centre for Entrepreneurship Rapid Incubator (CFERI) programme is an entrepreneurial initiative focused on assisting college and university graduates in starting their own businesses. 

Lovedale CFERI’s support

Operations

• Business Sector
• Agriculture, ICT & Manufacturing
• Other industries
• Skills development & Training

Administration

• Coaching & Mentorship
• Business Training

Compliance & Registration

• Tax
• BBBEE & CSD
• Funding Applications

Stakeholder Partnerships

• EC Govt
• Buffalo City MM & Amathole
• NYDA & SEDA
• ECDC, Other Funding & Business Support Institution

Finance

Centre for Entrepreneurship Rapid Incubator (CFERI) seeks to promote and develop young entrepreneurs in the province of Mpumalanga. The purpose of the Centre is to develop self-sustainable entrepreneurs (start and grow activities) who can make a contribution to the economy of Gert Sibande District and to become fully-fledged and legally complying economically sustainable SMEs. 

CFERI offers the following services; 

• Mentorship and coaching;
• Capacity development;
• Business compliance;
• Training and skills development;
• Back office support; 
• Network and linkages; and 
• Facilitates access to

Mahikeng innovation hub (MIHub) is an innovative co-working techno hub in the heart of Mahikeng, the capital city of the North West Province, with it's focus being unearthing and cultivating innovative 4IR solutions that will ultimately assist communities to acclimatize in this vast changing technological world while improving efficiency. We specialize in;

• Inclusive, technology-driven development
• Early start-up Incubation
• Prototype development
• Hackathons
• Skills Development

The Institutes of Advanced Tooling (IAT) –  Stellenbosch University (SU) vision is to work towards a national effort to build the innovation capacity of the South African tooling industry. The IAT works with companies aiming to improve their competitive position towards domestic and international competitors change tooling manufacture from a resource-driven to a knowledge-driven process by offering a well-balanced combination of technology enablers for all steps of the extended life cycle to small-medium enterprises (SME’s) in the tooling sector.

The IAT aims to create a foundation for a new

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