The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA builds and sustains vigorous economic growth through aiding new businesses entering the economy in South Africa.

The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA was started to build and sustain vigorous economic growth through aiding new businesses entering the economy. By focusing on black empowerment, we will help businesses and strengthen communities in South Africa. The Diageo Empowerment Trust SA has three initiatives. 1) Helping promising sorghum farmers compete for new markets. The Trust is already working with identified farmers in the Eastern Cape and will move into

Arigo Investments Africa is an advisory and diversified investments company. Our services are geared toward start-ups, strategic-growth and high-potential companies in Sub-Sahara Africa across a myriad of industry verticals.

Our investments are driven by entrepreneurial passion to solve societal challenges. We pioneer new ventures and invest in founders and their businesses, preferring active participation in growing the operations we partner in. We are expanding our base of diversified investments into larger listed and unlisted corporates in Africa.

 

Our current portfolio consists of

BEDCO is a parastatal of the Government of Lesotho, with a mandate to support entrepreneurial capacity building programmes, startup incubation, business advisory and technical training as well as develop Basotho enterprises by assisting in their establishment, promotion and growth. 

Key priority areas under the strategic plan include enterprise development; financial sustainability, stakeholder collaborations' organisational effectiveness; and human capital development.Under enterprise development; BEDCO develops and implements entrepreneurship programmes in the priority sectors namely

Venture Partners Botswana (VPB) is a professional private equity fund management company established in 2002 in Gaborone, Botswana. The firm focuses on growth capital investments in the Southern Africa region and firm targets a range of industries, including financial services, communications, and consumer products. The Private Equit(PE) fund management firm specialises in health care funding and also goes by Temo Capital.

Big City Builders is a civil engineering and development firm that has completed projects throughout Namibia.

We are a group of artisans who wish to bring about change in the Electrical industry by providing services of Solar Installations and back up power installations.

The company operates in different sectors where I have business consultants including entrepreneurs training, design and printing services, dishwashing liquid soap production, and biscuits production.

A company that is into manufacturing agricultural machines and tools.

Wakaduku Investment specializes in the installation of; 

  • CCTV
  • Gate motors
  • Welding
  • Electrical general
  • Electrical fence and many more related services.

IM Apparel is an organic skincare line with a wide range of products. All of our products are labeled with organic sticker labels designed by our founder. We also sell these items in bulk to other young aspiring entrepreneurs who want to brand and launch their own lines. We have experienced tremendous growth as a result of providing these services to a large number of entrepreneurs, including the Durban University of Technology. Our services have also expanded into design, as it all complements our offering. We hope to get our retail products into local well-known beauty bars, and we are also