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“There are no secrets to<br />
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CONTENT<br />
FAVYOU MARCH 2018<br />
INSPIRATIONAL WORDS<br />
Lebohang Magashule<br />
Founding Editor & CEO<br />
Rendani Makhado<br />
Founder & Production Director<br />
24<br />
UPFRONT<br />
6 Editor’s Note<br />
8 Inbox<br />
ENTREPRENEURSHIP<br />
10 African Entreprenership<br />
and furuteristic benefits<br />
HEALTH<br />
14 Work and Live well<br />
INSPIRATIONAL<br />
28 Words to inspire<br />
9 Inspiration<br />
“Running a startup is like being<br />
punched in the face repeatedly,<br />
but working for a large<br />
company is like being water<br />
boarded.”<br />
- Paul Graham, Y Combinator<br />
“The true entrepreneur<br />
is a doer, not a dreamer.”<br />
- Nolan Bushnell<br />
FEATURES<br />
Group Executive Editor<br />
Netasha Nkwana<br />
FREELANCE WRITERS<br />
Euclid Shilaku<br />
Michelle Avanthay<br />
Jerry Adams<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Erasmus Nche<br />
DESIGN<br />
PRINT & DIGITAL<br />
Lebohang Makhado<br />
ADVERTISING SALES<br />
CONTRACT PUBLISHING AND<br />
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COVER<br />
24 Young, bold and Dynamic:<br />
Watson Mathevula<br />
34 Gathel Moyo: On restoring<br />
hope for the people of<br />
Windsor<br />
18 Ngoako Mamulele<br />
leading a web hosting<br />
and services company<br />
34<br />
18<br />
“There are three things you<br />
you must do in order to<br />
become wealthy.<br />
You must have the<br />
right mindset, discover<br />
your purpose in life,<br />
and find a business that<br />
expresses that purpose.”<br />
- Andy Fuehl<br />
MARKETING AND CIRCULATION<br />
Rendani Makhado<br />
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EDITOR’S NOTE<br />
Patience Yields Success<br />
Have you ever wanted to do something, so<br />
bad that it hurt? For me that something is<br />
inspiring others by creating a compelling<br />
content for the youth of South Africa,<br />
create an immersive storytelling platform<br />
where young entrepreneurs can tell their<br />
stories of success, showcase their work and<br />
inspire others, network and advertise their<br />
products and ultimately create more<br />
employment opportunities. All I want is to do<br />
is to be a part of the solution that will<br />
eradicate poverty. Putting a decent magazine<br />
together takes time. The magazine business<br />
is tough, you need a compelling content to<br />
gain readership, you need a team to create<br />
the content, you need money to pay the team,<br />
you need advertising to make money, you<br />
need the circulation to get advertising, you<br />
need advertising money to build the<br />
circulation. All these facets that depend on<br />
each other. It takes an enormous amount of<br />
time. However, we are not givng up. For you,<br />
that passion - that inner drive might be<br />
something else entirely, it could be making<br />
clothes, trading forex, building an app for your<br />
digital store, building a prototype for your<br />
invention, or starting a TV production<br />
company. Big or small, you need to be<br />
patient with yourself, give yourself time to<br />
study, research, build a business plan, and<br />
raise startup capital. No mater what you must<br />
do, do not give up because it’s difficult, don’t<br />
stop because there is no one to help, don’t<br />
stop because you have not started<br />
making money and most importantly do not<br />
give up because people are making fun of<br />
you. keep moving, keep pushing. Your hard<br />
work will soon payoff.<br />
Lebo<br />
INSPIRATION<br />
“ I Have come to learn to be<br />
patient and not to give up too<br />
quickly. It takes patience<br />
and persistence to bring a<br />
new product and ways of<br />
doing things to a community.<br />
There are early adopters who<br />
immediately embrace the<br />
product and there are<br />
traditionalists who resist<br />
the change that the initiative<br />
represents.”<br />
- Bernice Dapaah<br />
DON’T GIVE UP!
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THIS MONTH<br />
Our favourite five star Reviews<br />
The only solution to our economy is<br />
entrepreneurship. <strong>Favyou</strong> is just what<br />
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Sello Ngoako Mamolele<br />
Dear Ngoako,<br />
South Africa sure needs more young people<br />
dynamically involved in creating employment and<br />
that we can do through entrepreneurship. We need<br />
to encourage and support one another. Thank you!<br />
Lebo<br />
I think the <strong>Favyou</strong> magazine is a good<br />
platform for us<br />
young entrepreneurs to advertise our<br />
talents. I can’t wait to see my designs<br />
in the magazine.<br />
Amos Sithole<br />
Dear Amos,<br />
i can’t wait to see your designs too. Please feel free<br />
to inbox me on my personal Facebook account,<br />
Lebohang Makhado or email on lebom@favyou.co.za<br />
or Austinm@favyou.co.za Thank you! Lebo<br />
Celebrating International Women’s day<br />
and South Africa’s Human’s Rights Day<br />
8th March marks International Women’s day and we are very proud to<br />
celebrate all women across the world, we will celebrate women’s<br />
achievements and maintain a gender parity mindset continue to #pressforprogress<br />
INSPIRATION<br />
“There will never be<br />
enough jobs for all<br />
the young people today<br />
- more and more<br />
of us must become<br />
entrepreneurs.”<br />
Rapelang Rabane<br />
“There greatest discovery of<br />
all time is that a person can<br />
change his future by merely<br />
changing his<br />
attitude.”<br />
Oprah Winfrey<br />
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP<br />
GREAT NEWS ABOUT<br />
AFRICA<br />
ENTREPRENEURSHIP<br />
AND FUTURISTIC<br />
BENEFITS<br />
by Jerry Adams<br />
A<br />
frica is increasingly taking its<br />
place on the global stage as<br />
a continent of growth and<br />
opportunity. Yet critically<br />
solving it challenges<br />
effectively with several ideas<br />
birthed from men/women of<br />
passion who chose to make<br />
their world a better place to<br />
be, particularly creating ideas,<br />
that will significantly create<br />
good job opportunities for the<br />
continent’s booming<br />
population, and the need to<br />
build a home-grown business<br />
leaders able to access global<br />
markets and drive growth in<br />
a sustainable and inclusive<br />
manner.<br />
For this reason, African<br />
entrepreneurship is central<br />
to Africa’s future prosperity.<br />
The biggest business<br />
opportunities in the coming<br />
decade will be created by<br />
Africans who start<br />
businesses, generate jobs<br />
and wealth, and capture<br />
growth opportunities. Across<br />
Africa, necessity is laid on<br />
creativity and a great<br />
number of inventions.<br />
Reusing and recombining<br />
is a way of life and, in many<br />
cases, the lack of<br />
infrastructure, even old<br />
infrastructure, gives us a<br />
“clean slate” for new<br />
solutions.<br />
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP<br />
Responding to these challenges,<br />
Africa’s entrepreneurs are<br />
contributing a host of cuttingedge<br />
products and services,<br />
enabling them to leap forward in<br />
such fields as mobile and<br />
information technology, and to<br />
develop innovations in<br />
agriculture, transportation,<br />
healthcare and other vital fields.<br />
Young artist in music, dance,<br />
poetry etc. is growing rapidly in<br />
Africa, indeed Africa is the future<br />
leader of industrialization and<br />
modernization. But while<br />
entrepreneurship is growing<br />
rapidly in Africa, entrepreneurs<br />
continue need to develop a<br />
constant study of the situation<br />
and bring about solution.<br />
Significantly domestic<br />
challenges that impede their<br />
efforts, including a lack of<br />
access to funding, support<br />
services, skills training and<br />
infrastructure, as well as<br />
administrative barriers, to leap<br />
over the wall of property and<br />
create wealth even to the<br />
generation yet unborn. In recent<br />
years, a movement has begun,<br />
entrepreneurs. It’s a movement<br />
that takes consumers away<br />
from large, impersonal big-box<br />
retailers and introduces them<br />
to the people doing business<br />
in their very own cities and<br />
neighborhood, to promote local<br />
products, such as local farmers,<br />
craftsmen, antiques dealers, and<br />
other product providers, with<br />
items made locally and sold on<br />
a small scale.<br />
“Indeed Africa is the<br />
future leader of<br />
industrialization and<br />
modernization. But while<br />
entrepreneurship is<br />
growing rapidly in Africa,<br />
entrepreneurs continue<br />
need to develop a<br />
constant study of the<br />
situation and bring about<br />
solution.”<br />
Having the owner nearby also<br />
means that owner personally<br />
knows his customers. He knows<br />
the products you buy or the<br />
services you request on a<br />
regular basis and can tailor<br />
services to make your<br />
experience even better.<br />
A local gardening shop owner<br />
may learn about a new product<br />
on the market that can help you<br />
with a pest control<br />
problem you mentioned on one<br />
of your visits, for instance, and<br />
can order that product as part of<br />
his selections. Buying<br />
local has benefits beyond mere<br />
convenience. When you support<br />
local business owners, you get a<br />
better level of service, as well as<br />
helping make your community a<br />
better place to live.<br />
“Getting things done<br />
is better than having<br />
things perfect. Done is<br />
better than perfect.<br />
Whatever you have in<br />
your hands, get going<br />
with it. Just do it!”<br />
- Charles Igwe<br />
Founder and CEO<br />
of Nollywood Global<br />
Media Group<br />
in Nigeria<br />
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HEALTH ADVICE<br />
LIVE RIGHT<br />
WORK RIGHT<br />
Written by Michelle Avanthay.<br />
“...he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then,<br />
he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And<br />
then he is so anxious about the future that he does not<br />
enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live<br />
in the present or the future........” Dalai Lama.<br />
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Many entrepreneurs, naturally,<br />
place much of their focus on<br />
developing and growing their<br />
businesses. Many entrepreneurs<br />
may also do so at the expense<br />
of their health, pertaining to a “live like most<br />
won’t now in order to live like most cant later”<br />
approach. While such a perspective may be<br />
commendable, most research points to the<br />
obvious; compromising your health is never<br />
a good idea. Compromising ones health does<br />
not narrow down solely to poor diet, but may<br />
also occur as a result of excessive<br />
sitting, long working hours and obtaining little<br />
sleep, all of which play a role in affecting your<br />
wellbeing. As complicated as the body may<br />
appear to be, it has a pretty simple objective;<br />
for all internal processes to harmoniously<br />
function. And the items we put in our bodies<br />
and the activities we put our bodies through,<br />
effect this synchronization. Fortunately, an<br />
increasing amount of entrepreneurs are<br />
taking their own health into their hands, some<br />
entrepreneurs manage their time accordingly<br />
and are even dubbed as healthier than most<br />
people. Indeed, changing their work habits<br />
has seen them improve on their energy levels,<br />
creative abilities and mental capabilities!<br />
Proving that focus on one’s health can<br />
definitely translate into good work ethic to<br />
better your company. But for those who have<br />
not jumped on the ‘healthy entrepreneur’<br />
bandwagon yet, incomediary.com has<br />
provided top 20 tips on ways in which<br />
entrepreneurs can improve their health,<br />
here is our compressed version;<br />
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2<br />
3<br />
4<br />
Spend at least one hour outside<br />
everyday; this allows for<br />
you to get much needed fresh<br />
air and Vitamin D, even if it<br />
means taking a walk around<br />
the block if you cannot go too<br />
far away from the office. Also<br />
start your day with a walk, as<br />
this has shown to decrease<br />
stress levels throughout the<br />
day.<br />
Improve what you eat and<br />
how you eat. This one is a<br />
no-brainer. Consume balanced<br />
and nutritional foods<br />
and develop healthy eating<br />
habits to go along with them,<br />
such as having set meal<br />
times and drinking healthy<br />
beverages to aid with your<br />
digestion.<br />
Watch your posture. This<br />
too affects your health. Keep<br />
your feet planted, chest up<br />
and shoulders back, and<br />
your chest will open up, your<br />
breath will flow freely and<br />
ease tension. Other benefits<br />
of good posture involve<br />
lowering your stress levels,<br />
stimulating the digestive<br />
system and normalising hormone<br />
levels.<br />
Open a few windows.<br />
Not only does this bring<br />
in fresh air, but allows for<br />
beneficial micro bacteria<br />
to enter our bodies,<br />
assisting in digestion,<br />
metabolism and our immune<br />
system<br />
6<br />
5<br />
7<br />
8<br />
Set a sleeping schedule.<br />
One that is up to 8 hours<br />
but less than 9 hours. In<br />
that way, your ‘internal<br />
biological clock’ is set and<br />
will naturally wake up and<br />
go to bed at around the<br />
same time every day. One<br />
effective way one may<br />
sleep at a particular time<br />
can be to dim the lights a<br />
few minutes before bed and<br />
sleep in darkness to ensure<br />
you stay sleeping.<br />
Some say that sitting is the<br />
new smoking because of<br />
the implications linked to<br />
sitting for long periods of<br />
time, such as its relation to<br />
obesity, high blood<br />
pressure, sugar diabetes,<br />
cancer and depression.<br />
Take some time to move<br />
around the office and<br />
partake in some simple<br />
exercises such as lunges’<br />
and stretches to recharge<br />
and refocus. Also avoid<br />
eating your lunch at your<br />
desk.<br />
Make water your primary<br />
beverage. Statistics have<br />
revealed that just 2% of<br />
a decrease in your water<br />
intake slows down your<br />
mental processes,<br />
including memory. You can<br />
liven up your water by<br />
adding some fresh bits of<br />
fruit.<br />
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11<br />
13<br />
Take your weekends off seriously and<br />
use that time to recuperate, such as<br />
getting a massage.<br />
Set specific times to sift through emails<br />
and social media accounts. You can<br />
get more work done and avoid getting<br />
side tracked by stumbling upon cute cat<br />
memes. If needs be, hire an assistant to<br />
help out with the workload.<br />
Challenge thyself. Park further away<br />
from the entrance or take the stairs<br />
instead of taking the elevator, that way<br />
you burn calories, stimulate your<br />
muscles and increase your blood flow.<br />
Ever heard of a walking<br />
meeting? Use that as an excuse to get<br />
outside and exercise, for both you and<br />
your clients rather than to sit in a boardroom.<br />
Get yourself a gym buddy.<br />
That will keep you motivated<br />
and committed.<br />
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And finally, socialise more - in real life!<br />
Developing a strong sense of<br />
community will create a healthy<br />
atmosphere and mindset for you.<br />
Now there is no reason for you to<br />
remain an unhealthy entrepreneur.<br />
The above steps will not only improve<br />
your physical and mental wellbeing,<br />
but the wellbeing of your business too!<br />
As Winston Churchill once uttered,<br />
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset<br />
any country can have”. So live right and<br />
work right!<br />
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10<br />
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PROFILE FEATURE<br />
Interview<br />
with<br />
Ngoako<br />
Mamolele<br />
ENTREPRENEUR, INFORMATION<br />
TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST,<br />
FOUNDER OF EIM BUSINESS INCUBATOR.<br />
Tell us about your company?<br />
Midnyt Coding (Pty) Ltd Is a level-3 BEE<br />
business-to-business technology consulting<br />
firm, supplying quality computing solutions<br />
based upon latest technology in the market.<br />
We are an on-point, Innovative company,<br />
our mission is to provide quality service at a<br />
lower cost and encourage research to keep<br />
relevant in the face of the ever-changing<br />
media, information and communication<br />
technologies. Our motto is to make our<br />
clients look, sound and be their best always.<br />
The name Midnyt Coding is inspired by the<br />
tendency of programmers to stay up all night<br />
writing codes, because like most if not all<br />
programmers I feel more productive at night<br />
when everyone is sleeping and there is just<br />
silence.<br />
When I thought of registering a company,<br />
inspired by my former boss at my 9-5 job, I<br />
was busy practicing my web design skills, it<br />
was late at night, so I thought of a few names<br />
like green page, and Midnyt coding, the name<br />
green page was already taken then by default<br />
Midnyt Coding was registered. The name<br />
reminds me that I am a programmer first<br />
before an Entrepreneur, that is what I love,<br />
that is my passion - it just reminds me of<br />
how much I love IT. The company was<br />
registered Midnyt Coding (Pty) Ltd on the 4th<br />
of August 2014, with the aim to deliver<br />
professional IT services to SMALL Business<br />
and start ups at an affordable price.<br />
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How did you get to start? What or who<br />
inspired you to starting your own business?<br />
My former Systems Manager once<br />
approached me to create a website for him,<br />
after he saw a simple HTML page that I<br />
created for Systems Administrators in my<br />
office when I was still a Systems Clerk. The<br />
very thought that I could make money out of<br />
designing websites - something that I loved<br />
excited me, it was like I have discovered<br />
something out of this world. After doing my<br />
research on how much they charge for web<br />
designs and that you have to register<br />
something called a domain, and there are<br />
things called hosting, you have to get a<br />
hosting company, I went back to my boss<br />
with confidence. I just enjoyed the way I<br />
negotiated with him, I just found myself<br />
enjoying the idea of “talking business and<br />
sealing a deal” so that is when he said I he<br />
would market clients for me-big clients, then<br />
I knew I had to get prepared, that is when I<br />
started staying up till late even when I knew<br />
that I must go to work the following day.<br />
What has been your greatest challenge<br />
since you started?<br />
FINANCE -TIME - TRUST - MANAGING<br />
DAILY OPERATIONS<br />
Let me start with TIME. I had work, School<br />
and business to manage with only 24hours<br />
allocated to me. I had to be at the top of my<br />
game with managing my time, to<br />
overcome this I had to do away with a<br />
lot of things, I distanced myself from my<br />
friends, visited family on less occasions and<br />
stopped things like partying- Yes at a very<br />
young age I stepped into the “boring-Mode”<br />
as most young people would<br />
describe it, but I knew that`s the sacrifice I<br />
had to make to archive what I<br />
wanted the most which is success.<br />
One other thing that most people advised<br />
me to do to overcome the “TIME” issue was<br />
to quit my 9-5 job; however, I couldn’t do<br />
that because FINANCE was even a bigger<br />
challenge, I mean it was already a problem<br />
that my parents couldn’t afford to take me<br />
to school so I was paying my own fees, own<br />
rent, buying grocery, clothes, everything I did<br />
for myself so I couldn’t quit.<br />
So how did I overcome the FINANCE<br />
problem? I simply looked at my biggest<br />
asset, which is my 9-5 job, this was my<br />
biggest client so I had to give my all to this<br />
client, of which I did, and because of that I<br />
was promoted to Systems Administrator –<br />
and again Assistant Systems Manager. The<br />
very same way I treated my clients, I did with<br />
my biggest client – my 9-5 Job.<br />
I start my day at 4am, by 6 am I am at work,<br />
give my all to my big client, 17:30 I get to my<br />
flat, take a quick shower and by 18:30 I will<br />
be starting my next shift at Midnyt Coding<br />
until 22:00 or 23:00, if I still feel the energy in<br />
me, I get home and work until 02:00 am.<br />
Saturday I am at Midnyt Coding the whole<br />
day and Sunday I seat at McDonald`s with<br />
my laptop and work until my eyes can no longer<br />
take. Another challenge that I faced was<br />
being trusted, (lol) especially with a wired<br />
name like “Midnyt Coding”, people would ask<br />
“Midnyt Coding? Where are you guys based?”<br />
so the minute they realized we don’t have<br />
physical premises then they would just say<br />
“okay, I will get back to you” then you will<br />
never see them again. To overcome this, we<br />
rented an office at Protea Towers in Pretoria<br />
Central, and got a landline number, then more<br />
people started trusting us.<br />
Managing Daily Operations such as meeting<br />
clients was also a challenge because of my<br />
daily job, you find that clients want to meet<br />
during office hours and I can`t, so I had to<br />
hire a secretary to do all this for me, I would<br />
communicate with clients, setup meetings<br />
and ask my secretary to meet up with them,<br />
and again she helped me with book keeping<br />
and meeting up with suppliers.<br />
BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION<br />
I was born Ngoako Parlacious Mamolele on the 18th of May<br />
1993, at a Village called Gamatlala in Limpopo, moved to a<br />
township just outside Polokwane called Seshego when I was<br />
4 years old. That is where I grew up and schooled until Grade<br />
12, before I moved to Midrand in 2012 after I finished my<br />
matric. Back in high school I was always one person who like<br />
to try new things, and do things that most people didn’t do, I<br />
just loved being different. I had a group of five friends and we<br />
just liked doing our own thing and being known for being “the<br />
good guys”.<br />
Again, I have always been one<br />
person who hardly gave in when<br />
I don’t get what I want, I<br />
remember at one point when I<br />
wrote for a local <strong>Magazine</strong> called<br />
friends <strong>Magazine</strong>, I think I wrote<br />
about 6 articles before I can get<br />
published. I was crazy in love<br />
with science when I was still in<br />
school, I didn’t even see<br />
myself being an IT specialist or<br />
an Entrepreneur when I grow up,<br />
I wanted to be a<br />
microbiologist instead, so I<br />
wrote so many articles about the<br />
wonders of science, the craziest<br />
one that I remember was titled<br />
“DNA GOES A LONG WAY”, it was<br />
about human DNA, that when put<br />
together in a straight line it can<br />
cover a distance from here to<br />
the moon… (lol) the Editor wrote<br />
back to me and said “Parlacious<br />
I don’t have anything against<br />
your articles, they are good but,<br />
the information though…” (lol)<br />
I was so heart broken, but I never<br />
stopped, I went on and did more<br />
research. My next article was<br />
about overcoming the fears of<br />
Math, the article was titled “Slay<br />
the Math Dragon”. I was so<br />
proud of myself, my parents were<br />
so excited. When I was in matric,<br />
my group of five and I<br />
(famously known as<br />
“machoko-10”) joined an SAPS<br />
Youth Group at Polokwane Police<br />
station under Sergeant Maloba,<br />
this was because we wanted to<br />
do our community service which<br />
was required for our Life<br />
Orientation project. After<br />
successfully completing the<br />
project, Mrs Maloba didn’t do as<br />
promised, she didn’t give us the<br />
Community service certificates.<br />
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The members of my crew felt they were used<br />
and they quit the group, however I remained<br />
until I left Polokwane, I did it because I<br />
enjoyed it and I didn’t see the reason to give<br />
up. After I left Polokwane I came to Gauteng<br />
looking for an institution to study<br />
Biotechnology with, I couldn’t get space at<br />
several institutions including Tshwane<br />
University of Technology, when I finally got<br />
space at Midrand Graduate<br />
Institute, I realized that I couldn’t afford to<br />
study there as it was too expensive, I tried<br />
getting study loans (I remember going to four<br />
ways to submit my application forms at CTI, I<br />
didn’t even know the place, let alone Gauteng.<br />
I was scared but I overcame that). The<br />
application was declined due to my parent’s<br />
financial state. My dream was shuttered, I saw<br />
another chance at PC training but again it had<br />
no NSFAS, I couldn’t register there as well. I<br />
told myself that there is no way I am going<br />
back to Polokwane, it will kill my mom to see<br />
me sitting at home, I went and looked for a<br />
Job. I passed my matric with a Bachelor and I<br />
had computer skills, in fact I passed IT with I<br />
high score, so I stood a good chance. That is<br />
when I got a job at Shoprite<br />
Distribution Center, I was working a 12-hour<br />
shift, my father was very unhappy with this as<br />
I also had to work night shift, however I knew I<br />
wanted to go back to school. I persevered and<br />
4 years later I was appointed Assistant<br />
Systems Manager at the very same company.<br />
THE ACTUAL WORK<br />
What are the services you offer, and which<br />
organizations have you worked with before?<br />
Midnyt Coding offers services in IT Support,<br />
Computing and Internet Solutions, Web<br />
designing and hosting, remote help desk<br />
support, Customer training and Graphic<br />
Design. Our target market is Start Up<br />
companies and Small to Medium Enterprises.<br />
Some of our clients include;<br />
Hloni group, we have designed a website for<br />
one of their clients called Global Safety<br />
Resources (www.globalsafetyresources.co.za)<br />
TGJ – we designed their website, redone their<br />
logo, used to do their embroideries and<br />
hosting (www.tgjonline.co.za )<br />
Eladovino – Logo design, Ice Cream Tub design<br />
and web design and hosting<br />
(www.eladovino.com)<br />
Dinaletsana Edu Centre – Logo, Name Tags,<br />
embroidery, website and hosting<br />
(www.dinaletsana.co.za)<br />
Masweneng Inc Attorneys – web design and<br />
hosting (www.maswenenginc.co.za)<br />
BAM Models – Hosting<br />
(www.bammodels.co.za)<br />
Reliable Business Training Consultants – web<br />
design and hosting (www.rbtc.co.za)<br />
Forever Financial Services – Logo design and<br />
Webdesign (www.forverfs.co.za) web still under<br />
construction Ray and D Packaging Solutions<br />
Logo design, Name Tags<br />
Preeminent Antics (Music group) – Logo<br />
design<br />
LAST WORDS<br />
Midnyt Coding is always looking for ways to<br />
inspire and emancipate young people,<br />
especially looking at the situation our country<br />
is in as far as unemployment is concerned.<br />
We hosted our first Business Expo called The<br />
Entrepreneur In Me in 2017, which was a great<br />
success. We had a number of young people,<br />
and other stake holders of the NYDA as well as<br />
established business people. The aim of THE<br />
EIM was to evoke The Entrepreneur In young<br />
people so they can go out and create more job<br />
opportunities as a means of fighting<br />
unemployment. In the fight against<br />
unemployment, we have recruited young people<br />
who work as Brand Ambassadors, they work<br />
flexible hours, as independent contractors to<br />
market the company and they earn by<br />
commission. The Brand Ambassador project<br />
is set to award a free bursary to the best<br />
candidate after 12 months of the program.<br />
Keep your dream alive<br />
Understand to achieve anything<br />
your require faith and belief in<br />
yourself, vision, hard work,<br />
determination, and dedication.<br />
Remember all things are possible<br />
for those who believe.”<br />
- Gail Devers<br />
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COVER FEATURE<br />
YOUNG<br />
BOLD<br />
dynamic<br />
By Lebo Makhado<br />
One of the few people in South Africa to own a<br />
successful business in the Foreign Exchange<br />
Market Industry, Watson Mathevula, founder and CEO of<br />
Wealth Forex Academy, Entrepreneur,<br />
Investor, Mentor, and Motivational Speaker.<br />
Although there are many<br />
ways to make money<br />
online, Foreign Exchange<br />
Market is the largest<br />
and most liquid market<br />
in the world with over<br />
5,3 USD trillion floating<br />
in the market every day.<br />
One unique aspect of this<br />
international market is that there is no central<br />
marketplace for forex market and the market<br />
is open five days a week from Monday to<br />
Friday. Mathevula, is one of the few people<br />
that are making a living out of Forex.<br />
His company caters as a training institution<br />
on how to trade forex, aiming to empower<br />
prospective traders with the knowledge and<br />
understanding of the global forex market.<br />
His goal is to help them build a sustainable<br />
wealth profile through financial market.<br />
Mathevula’ s can-do attitude started during<br />
his childhood in small town called Giyani in<br />
Limpopo where he was born and raised. “I<br />
have been a businessman since my first year<br />
in high school after the passing of my father,<br />
I ran a home tuck shop and a barber shop<br />
and sold sweets and packet of chips in my<br />
school to help my family financially.<br />
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COVER FEATURE<br />
I did motivational talks while in high school<br />
and took part in Junior Enterprise South<br />
Africa project as an assistant General<br />
Manager, sponsored by Coca Cola. When<br />
I moved to Johannesburg to study at the<br />
university of Johannesburg I still had the<br />
same mentality. To sustain myself I would<br />
sell second hand text books.” He recalls.<br />
“When I was doing my third year I knew I<br />
wanted to be an entrepreneur even though I<br />
was studying accounting, I didn’t see myself<br />
asking for a job, I imagined myself on<br />
the other side of the desk creating jobs for<br />
someone else and training them to think<br />
like me.” He says. And he should know – it<br />
is this creative mindset that landed him<br />
where he is today.<br />
MAKING HIS MARK<br />
Mathevula has trained hundreds of<br />
students both online and face-to-face.<br />
Speaking to him, he can’t talk about his<br />
success without mentioning his students<br />
and showing their remarkable results. It<br />
gives him pleasure to see that his<br />
teachings bear fruits. He says the<br />
company main objective is to empower<br />
young people. “My knowledge about<br />
financial markets and skill in trading<br />
currencies has yielded desired results.<br />
I have made millions of profits in my own<br />
personal trading and my academy’s<br />
produced high success rate; my<br />
strategies have high winning probability.<br />
“When I was doing my third year I knew I wanted to be an<br />
entrepreneur even though I was studying accounting, I didn’t<br />
see myself asking for a job, I imagined myself on the other side<br />
of the desk creating jobs for someone else and<br />
training them to think like me.”<br />
Now aged 25 and a successful forex trader,<br />
mentor, businessman, investor, and<br />
motivational speaker. The idea was<br />
introduced to him by his brother who is also<br />
a forex trader and seeing his success and<br />
testimonies of other traders he knew forex<br />
was what he needed. “the<br />
testimonies of other successful traders<br />
intrigued me, I soon realized forex was<br />
exactly what I needed to do to attain<br />
financial freedom as I desired, however, it<br />
took a lot of sacrifice and many sleepless<br />
nights to figure it out.” He says. Although<br />
he is nailing the numbers and mastering<br />
the forex market he admits it’s taken years<br />
of discipline, study, network and<br />
practice. He is acutely aware of the doom<br />
and glooms that have marked his journey.<br />
What distinguishes my course is that I<br />
teach I don’t sell dreams, rather, I<br />
genuinely help people using real and<br />
practical information, thus giving them<br />
value for their money. The results of my<br />
students are genuine proof of the<br />
fruitfulness and productiveness of my<br />
training. One of my personal mentors,<br />
Robert Kiyosaki, says “To obtain financial<br />
freedom, one must be either a business<br />
owner, an investor, or both, generating<br />
passive income, particularly monthly.” True<br />
to my story. However, my take is that you<br />
are not a success unless you have made<br />
someone else a success.” He says.<br />
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COVER FEATURE<br />
BALANCING WORK AND BUSINESS<br />
“I do my personal trading on<br />
weekdays and train people on<br />
weekends, sometimes I take<br />
consultations either before or after<br />
doing my trades. However, I don’t<br />
trade every day, I only place my<br />
trades when there’s a clear<br />
opportunity to maximize my profits<br />
and minimize losses.”<br />
WINNING STRATEGIES<br />
“Many may not know there are<br />
people called market makers, they<br />
are the people behind fluctuations<br />
between currency prices. They own<br />
the business and control the<br />
movements of prices. They only way<br />
to beat them and win in this<br />
business is to understand their<br />
objectives and trade alongside<br />
markets makers.” He adds that<br />
regularly interacting with his<br />
personal mentors spurs his personal<br />
growth.<br />
WORD OF ADVICE<br />
“Change is difficult; growth is<br />
difficult, but there’s nothing as<br />
difficult as being stuck somewhere<br />
you don’t belong. Surround yourself<br />
with people who force you to grow<br />
and level up in life. People with a<br />
purpose have a bright and positive<br />
outlook on life. Refuse to be<br />
anything less than successful.”<br />
Watson Mathevula and his students<br />
Left: Prince Mabasa, Right: Andile Malindisa<br />
Find Wealth Forex Academy in<br />
Sandton - 106 Johan Avenue<br />
website: www.wealthforexacademy.com<br />
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All growth depends<br />
upon activity. there is no<br />
development<br />
physically or intellectually<br />
without effort , and effort<br />
means work.”<br />
- Calvin Coolidge<br />
“Success isn’t always about<br />
greatness. It’s about<br />
consistency. Consistent<br />
hard work leads to success.<br />
Greatness will come.”<br />
- Dwayne “The Rock”<br />
Johnson
PROFILE FEATURE<br />
Repaying<br />
GENEROSITY<br />
By Netasha Nkwana, Photography Erasmedia Productions<br />
Gathel Moyo is a true connotation of spreading love across all<br />
boarders, born in Zimbabwe, Moyo came to South Africa in a<br />
quest to building a new life and career but instead he became<br />
the hope and future for the community of Windsor.<br />
Moyo has established<br />
Ambassadors4Change for which<br />
resulted in the idea of starting his<br />
own NGO, a platform that creates<br />
support groups which give assistance to people<br />
with chronic illnesses, addiction and to combat<br />
any social ills affecting communities. The idea<br />
started in 2012 when he was still a volunteer<br />
Councilor at the Windsor Clinic and during that<br />
time he got exposed to a lot of socio-economic<br />
issues.<br />
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And by all accounts, Gathel<br />
Moyo has led an accomplished<br />
life, combining his experiences<br />
with a lifelong passion for<br />
giving back to the community.<br />
“Being a Councilor was my job,<br />
but I was always looking for<br />
other things that made sense<br />
and with the help of my<br />
partners and mentors Beth<br />
Gilling and Phillip Kings,<br />
Ambassador4Change has<br />
grown far more to what I<br />
anticipated. I grew up<br />
believing that we exist to serve<br />
others.” Although his love of<br />
giving back has expressed<br />
itself through volunteerism<br />
with a few organizations,<br />
Moyo’s latest passion is his<br />
work with the Windsor<br />
community.<br />
Ambassador4Change is<br />
currently running two<br />
programs: project100 and<br />
Lead100, project100 is a need<br />
providing program for children;<br />
the main motif is to source<br />
basic needs such as blankets,<br />
winter wear, stationary, school<br />
wear and other necessities.<br />
They are working on care<br />
packs for expecting<br />
mothers who will have<br />
essentials such as nappies,<br />
body lotion, formula etc.<br />
Furthermore to their<br />
program they are working on<br />
supplying teenage girls with<br />
care packs of toiletries. On<br />
the other hand, lead100 is an<br />
initiative aimed at providing<br />
motivational and<br />
mentoring workshops for<br />
young adults on different<br />
subjects such as life skills,<br />
small businesses<br />
establishment and<br />
leadership. The project needs<br />
volunteers to share some<br />
inspiration and teach at some<br />
of the workshops. Overall<br />
impact through Project100,<br />
Ambassador4Change have<br />
managed to reach out to over<br />
100 children providing<br />
blankets, jerseys, and<br />
clothing. The organization<br />
raises funds by asking people<br />
to donate where necessary.<br />
Moyo’s kindness has had a<br />
profound impact on the needy<br />
local population. To<br />
participate in Gathel Moyo’s<br />
Ambassador4Change,<br />
people are invited to engage<br />
in donating the necessities<br />
they need for Project100, so<br />
is to bring change to the<br />
betterment of our society.<br />
“<br />
Being a Councilor was my<br />
job, but I was always<br />
looking for other things<br />
that made sense and with<br />
the help of my partners<br />
and mentors Beth Gilling<br />
and Phillip Kings,<br />
Ambassador4Change has<br />
grown far more to what I<br />
anticipated. I grew up<br />
believing that we exist to<br />
serve others.<br />
“<br />
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