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THE<br />

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REALENTREPRENEUR<br />

“There are no secrets to<br />

SUCCESS. It is the results of<br />

preparation, HARD WORK<br />

and learning from failure.”<br />

Colin Powell<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 />

EVENTS<br />

advertise@favyou.co.za<br />

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 />

South Africa needs. Showcasing what<br />

young people are doing out there.<br />

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 />

March 2018 <strong>Favyou</strong> 11


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 />

March 2018 <strong>Favyou</strong> 12


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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1<br />

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 />

9<br />

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 />

14<br />

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 />

12<br />

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 />

March 2018 <strong>Favyou</strong> 16 by Austin Makhado Photography Erasmedia Productions<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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