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issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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District, UGU District & Petermaritzburg.<br />
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Awards<br />
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ICC and South<br />
Africa At the 25th<br />
World Travel Awards in<br />
Durban Reinforce KZN<br />
As The World’s Mega<br />
Events and Tourism<br />
Destination<br />
Pictured at the Event were Mayor of eThekwini, Zandile Gumede; MEC for Economic Development, Tourism & Environmental Affairs<br />
(EDTEA), Mr. Sihle Zikalala ; CEO Durban ICC, Lindiwe Rakharebe, Durban city Manager, Sipho Nzuza , officials of COGTA, Durban<br />
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PG 3 | Trade and Investment Week (TIKZN <strong>2018</strong>)<br />
PG 5 | Department of Labour Leads Inspection Blitz<br />
PG 8 | AME Afrca hosts development graduation<br />
PG 9 | The Chemical Industries educate<br />
PG 12 | The 48 hour film project<br />
By : Oyewo-Umoh Adetola Elizabeth<br />
The 25th World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony held for<br />
the third time after 2008 and 2009 at the Durban ICC,<br />
honored, rewarded and celebrated excellence in the<br />
travel and tourism industry on October 6th <strong>2018</strong>. Mayor<br />
of eThekwini, Zandile Gumede in her opening address<br />
referred to the World Travel Award as the ‘Oscars of the<br />
travel industry’. She pointed out that Durban is a livable<br />
and conducive city for work, study and play. We have<br />
a lot to offer the city, said Mayor Gumede. The MEC for<br />
Economic Development, Tourism & Environmental Affairs<br />
(EDTEA), Mr. Sihle Zikalala said, ‘we are humbled by the<br />
increased confidence that the world continues to show<br />
confidence in KwaZulu-Natal. He adds that, over the next<br />
three years,<br />
the total direct impact from our Meetings, Incentives,<br />
Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) will be in the region of R1.1<br />
billion. This is also in recognition of the province planned use of<br />
the high profile gatherings as vehicles to attract the attention of<br />
potential investors and tourists which is essential in growing the<br />
economy to scale down the current high levels of joblessness<br />
and poverty.<br />
The acting CEO Tourism KZN, Phindile Makwakwa, pointed out<br />
that the WTA awards showcased the region, its many tourism<br />
attractions and products with confidence to continue with the<br />
very best service delivery. She said also that ‘these awards once<br />
again throw the spotlight on our provincial tourism assets and<br />
this international recognition can only auger well for the future’.<br />
With award to the Durban ICC named Africa’s Leading for the<br />
future’.<br />
With award to the Durban ICC named Africa’s Leading Meetings<br />
& Conference Centre for the 17th time out of 18th time; Africa’s<br />
leading destination was South Africa and Africa’s leading Cruise<br />
Port was Port of Durban. Hospitality winners included Hilton Hotels<br />
& Resorts (Africa’s Leading Hotel Brand), Saxon Hotel, Villas & Spa<br />
(Africa’s Leading Boutique Hotel) and Legend Golf Resort & Spa,<br />
South Africa (Africa’s Leading Sports Resort). South Africa was<br />
also named Africa’s leading destination, while South Africa Tourism<br />
received the trophy for being Africa’s leading tourism board.<br />
The audience were entertained by the AmaZebra, one of South<br />
Africa got Talent contestants and by the Clermont Youth Choir.<br />
The World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to<br />
acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence in the sector,<br />
have become a key global institution of the industry.
2 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
Productivity SA hosted the KZN Regional Productivity<br />
Awards and Launch of the KZN Exporters competitive<br />
program.<br />
We received the Award for Emerging Catergory and will be<br />
representing KZN Region at the Nationals on Friday at Gallagher<br />
Estates.<br />
My core business Golden Rewards is a manufacturing<br />
company and was one of the successful applicant to be part of<br />
the export program. We plan on exporting speed housing and<br />
classrooms facilities as fast affordable solutions to Africa<br />
and disaster area’s.<br />
The award was much to our surprise and after a robust of auditing<br />
we had a 98% customer satisfaction.<br />
A positive growth in turnover and succeeded in employment<br />
creation..<br />
Productivity SA has been working with our company improving<br />
our competitiveness and reducing costs including aiding in<br />
reducing waste.<br />
Joining the program we have seen a growth in production and<br />
minimized wastage. We look forward in representing KZN at<br />
National Awards on the 19th October <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Author : Reshma Maharaj<br />
STAKEHOLDERS IN BUSINESS TOURISM URGED<br />
TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY<br />
By : Oyewo-Umoh Adetola Elizabeth<br />
Reshma Maharaj and Viky Maharaj : Directors of Golden Rewards<br />
1519cc<br />
The Kwa-Zulu Natal Convention Bureau and the<br />
Durban ICC under the auspice of the KwaZulu-<br />
Natal Ministry for Economic Development,<br />
Tourism & Environmental Affairs (EDTEA) hosted<br />
a Stakeholder Engagement session tagged the<br />
‘importance of Business Tourism in the South<br />
African Economy’ on 4th October <strong>2018</strong> at the<br />
Durban ICC.<br />
The event gathered government officials,<br />
hospitality owners, business leaders and tourism<br />
experts to discuss how business tourism was<br />
key to sustain the economy. The highlight of<br />
the discussion unpacked how South Africa<br />
was trying to get five million more people to<br />
visit the country in the next five years. With<br />
research presentation from the South African<br />
National Convention Bureau (SANCB) delegate<br />
tracking study 2014-2016, it indicated that in<br />
2014, the international meetings, conference<br />
and exhibition industry business contributed to<br />
267 660 direct and indirect annual jobs in South<br />
Africa and 280 555 in 2015.The session also<br />
highlighted how to get more accommodation<br />
booked, how service providers and <strong>SMME</strong>S<br />
could benefit from event bidding.<br />
MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and<br />
Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), Sihle Zikalala<br />
Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA),<br />
Sihle Zikalala commenting on the SANCB report<br />
stated that ‘the commercial value of visitors<br />
traveling for business or leisure must be at<br />
the heart of our economic development and<br />
employment creation trajectory.<br />
All stakeholders must work together to<br />
achieve sustainable inclusive growth to<br />
increase employment. The severe levels of<br />
unemployment, poverty, and inequality require<br />
urgent attention’.<br />
He adds that the National Development Plan<br />
states that we need to raise employment by 11<br />
million to 24 million by 2030. This is in recognition<br />
that the President expects social partners and all<br />
sectors to commit to specific targets and plans<br />
to end the nightmare of unemployment which is<br />
robbing many South African young people of<br />
their future.<br />
Persons from previously disadvantage<br />
should benefit from the sector not just as<br />
cleaners but owners in the value chain’.<br />
Zikalala suggest the need on offering<br />
diverse tourism products and South Africa<br />
should be marketed as a whole at equal<br />
level. It was also pointed out that the Home<br />
Affairs new regulation would also boost<br />
growth of the tourism sector.<br />
The engagement was attended by CEO<br />
Ushaka Marine world, Dr. Stella Khumalo;<br />
eThekwini Councillor Nkosenhle Madlala;<br />
CEO Durban ICC Lindiwe Rakharebe;<br />
Acting CEO Tourism KwaZulu-Natal,<br />
Phindile Makwakwa; Board Members<br />
Tourism KwaZulu-Natal Authority, Mr.<br />
Sthembiso Lennox Madlala ; CEO Durban<br />
Chamber of Commerce, Palesa Phili and<br />
KZN Convention Bureau Acting Chief<br />
Officer, Sonto Matisse amongst others.<br />
As well as the impact of business tourism,<br />
economic impact of Durban ICC; crime<br />
perception on tourism and uncleanliness in<br />
certain part of Durban on tourism.<br />
Stakeholders were urged to work together<br />
collaboratively in the event bidding process<br />
because the bidding process is complex in order<br />
to go against other destination in the bidding<br />
process. There is also the need to showcase<br />
<strong>SMME</strong>s and <strong>SMME</strong>s should be involved in the<br />
bidding process as it cost less hosting event in<br />
South Africa.<br />
Pictured at the event From Left : eThekwini Councillor Nkosenhle Madlala;<br />
CEO Durban ICC Lindiwe Rakharebe; Acting CEO Tourism KwaZulu-Natal, Phindile Makwakwa<br />
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issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
3 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
Department of Labor’s Public Hearings on Proposed<br />
Employment Equity Amendments & Regulations Moves To KZN<br />
By : Oyewo-Umoh Adetola Elizabeth<br />
The Department of Labor’s Employment Equity<br />
(EE) Directorate’s national public hearings on<br />
the tagged ‘Real transformation makes business<br />
sense’ was unpacked in KwaZulu-Natal. With<br />
public hearing held on 9th October <strong>2018</strong> at the<br />
Golden Horse Casino Hotel, Pietermaritzburg<br />
and on 10th October <strong>2018</strong> at the Olive Convention<br />
Centre, Durban.<br />
The public hearing discussion focused on the<br />
EE amendments such as alignment between<br />
defi nitions, policy provisions on collection of data<br />
for the National Minimum Wage Commission.<br />
The introduction of provisions and regulatory<br />
requirements for the promulgation of Section 53<br />
to ensure employers benefi ting fi nancially from<br />
State contracts comply with the EE Act.<br />
Attendees at the Durban roadshow.<br />
The objectives of the public hearing was to<br />
unpack the Department of Labour proposed<br />
amendments which aimed to eradicate unfair<br />
discrimination in the workplace.<br />
This is in recognition that 20 years since the<br />
inception of the Employment Equity Act enacted<br />
in 1998, the published Employment Equity<br />
Amendment Bill and the Draft Employment<br />
Equity Regulations in the Government Gazette,<br />
there was still slow pace of transformation in the<br />
workplace.<br />
The public hearings aimed to gather comments<br />
to the proposed amendments, with focus on<br />
employment equity (EE) reporting advocacy<br />
and the amendments to EE legislation and<br />
regulations so as to fast-track the transformation<br />
of workplaces.<br />
Secondly, to make reporting requirements<br />
easier for designated employers who are small<br />
employers. In addition to introduction of provisions<br />
in the EE Amendment Bill and regulations for the<br />
consultation and setting of numerically based<br />
sector targets across various occupational levels<br />
to ensure an equitably represented workforce.<br />
Department of Labour Senior Practitioner-<br />
Registry, Robert Dzhombere explained that<br />
designated employers are expected to report EE.<br />
Designated employers are organizations with 50<br />
employees. The rationale for such ‘discussion<br />
on EE online reporting is because employers<br />
and business are still not compliant and some<br />
organization do not promote their staff which<br />
negates the EE Act’, said Department of Labour<br />
Senior Practitioner-Registry, Robert Dzhombere.<br />
The complaint level in KwaZulu-Natal is also less<br />
than 4%.<br />
Deputy Director, Department of Labour Deputy<br />
Director: Employment and Equity, Masilo Lefi ka<br />
emphasized that ‘SMEs are not to report because<br />
they are not in the designated employer group<br />
because they are have less than 50 employees<br />
and still babies in terms of business , we need<br />
them to flourish and grow’.<br />
The proposal is also in recognition of identifi ed<br />
sectors from 11 to 18 sector and discussions<br />
with the Department social partner, National<br />
Economic Development and Labour Council –<br />
Nedlac<br />
The EE <strong>2018</strong> online reporting is open and the<br />
online EE reporting closes on 15 January 2019.<br />
For more information and to comment on the<br />
proposed EE amendments visit www.labour.gov.<br />
za. The comment form can be accessed on our<br />
website.<br />
KwaZulu-Natal Trade and Investment Week (TIKZN) <strong>2018</strong><br />
By: Anele S. Gumede<br />
From the 1st to the 5th of October <strong>2018</strong> the Durban<br />
ICC hosted the KwaZulu-Natal Trade Investment Export<br />
week. The TIKZN is an annual programme of trade and<br />
Investments in KwaZulu-Natal. The Expo was held to<br />
highlight the importance of exporting in the KwaZulu-<br />
Natal economy and to celebrate all the succeeding<br />
export businesses in South Africa.<br />
The Expo week was filled with information and<br />
networking session for emerging exporters, existing<br />
exporters and seasoned exporters. The main aim for the<br />
exporter week was to develop, recognise, promote and<br />
assist with growing KwaZulu-Natal’s export businesses<br />
and industries. The Expo is to allow many businesses<br />
to grown and understand the different and safe ways of<br />
trading. Throughout the week a variety of seminars were<br />
held where comprehensive programmes of activities<br />
and where professionals had shared their thought and<br />
ideas on development and information on the growth<br />
of sectors and market opportunities to KwaZulu-Natal’s<br />
new exporters and international businesses.<br />
“Networking is very important for businesses so please<br />
embrace this opportunity and get to know each other as<br />
businesses.”<br />
The seminar had a number of important people to talk to<br />
these businesses about running exporting businesses<br />
and how to trade with other countries. Dr Martin<br />
Cameron Director and Owner of Trade and Research<br />
Advisory (Pty) Ltd, MARCAM Software and Consulting<br />
Company was speaker and facilitator on the last day of<br />
the Expo week.<br />
“South Africa needs to move forward and Trade policy<br />
and Industrial policy should work together” Says Dr<br />
Cameron<br />
The TIKZN is looking to way to helping and developing<br />
South African firms and teach South Africans about how<br />
to trade with other African Countries.<br />
The only way to grow Africa is by getting all the<br />
government parties such as SARS to help the country go<br />
forward.<br />
In South Africa we have a great relationship with other<br />
countries and we need to use that to our advantage and<br />
trade.<br />
“We need to challenge not only people like the TKZN but<br />
also companies like the ADA and many other well-known<br />
Companies”<br />
In closing Dr Martin Cameron ended by advising <strong>SMME</strong>’s<br />
on the world of Trade and how entering into Trade can<br />
affect their businesses.<br />
“<strong>SMME</strong>’s should not enter into Trade because they are<br />
only setting themselves up for failure, unless they have a<br />
good product.”<br />
All TIKZN videos can be accessed on<br />
the <strong>SMME</strong> News Youtube channel and<br />
all images can be located through our<br />
website’s photo gallery.<br />
Prominet attendees at the Exporter Awards<br />
National Business delegates from China<br />
Economist, Christopher Woods<br />
Winners & contests of the Exporter Awards<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
4 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
ZERO GRAVITY CLOUD<br />
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Amazon is the largest cloud vendor in the World & Zamani is part of a very exclusive group: Less than 1% of ICT Professionals Worldwide,<br />
certifi ed to partner with Amazon Cloud: Amazon Web Services or AWS.<br />
This is the fi rst in a series of articles, titled: “Ask Zamani”? Where Zamani will share his knowledge and experience gained from<br />
Amazon, as well as current trends he is seeing in their more mature, First-World Markets. You may also mail him your ICT<br />
questions: zamani@zerogravity.cloud.<br />
The fi rst subject for discussion is quite rightly: Security! Security should be any Organization’s absolute priority. If we cannot<br />
protect our business and our customers, we have no business. Security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated,<br />
and good security hygiene is critical.<br />
The key questions to evaluate your Business’ ICT Infrastructure on, is:<br />
1. How secure is my Business against malicious cyber attacks?<br />
2. How quickly can my Business recover from a core IT failure?<br />
3. Can my Business continue to operate during a core IT outage?<br />
4. Is my Business compliant with the Protection of Personal Information<br />
(PoPI) Act?<br />
To this end: Encryption of essential business data is the minimum any business should ensure, and<br />
security by design is one of the biggest advantages of cloud. Zamani advocates Cloud as the quickest<br />
method to easily and cost-effectively protect your Business from Cyber attacks.<br />
There is a fallacy that Public Cloud is a security risk. This can’t be any further from the Truth! If you are<br />
serious about Security, you will move to Public Cloud. At Amazon, Security is their Priority Zero. There<br />
is nothing more important to Amazon than Security. The annual Security budget at Amazon is upwards<br />
of US$1Billion, budgets that none of us can afford. As such, their levels of security are at military<br />
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Ask Zamani how you can leverage of Amazon Web Services to secure your Business today<br />
to ensure continuity through migration to Cloud: zamani@zerogravity.cloud.<br />
ICT Students: Please also chat to him, if you’re interested in a career in Cloud.<br />
Zero Gravity Cloud is the only: Amazon Standard Partner, in KZN.<br />
By : Anele S. Gumede<br />
From the 18 to the 24 of September the<br />
Durban ICC hosted the 20th Durban<br />
Business fair. For these past 2 decades<br />
eThekwini Municipality has made it their<br />
priority to support business around<br />
South Africa.<br />
They made it their job to create a change<br />
among these businesses allowing them to<br />
create names for themselves and allowing<br />
them to network with other businesses. On<br />
the 19 to the 22 the Durban ICC hosted the<br />
Durban Fashion Fair.<br />
The Business Indaba Panel Discussion of local and international business<br />
delegates which was broadcasted live on CNBC and hosted by Fifi Peters<br />
Celebrating seven years, the annual<br />
Durban Fashion Fair is one of the biggest<br />
fashion events on the South Africa fashion<br />
calendar. The event had a number of<br />
fashion media, fashion buyers and “lovers<br />
of all things fashion”. The eThekwini’s main<br />
goal was to providing local designers with<br />
an opportunity to sell their creations.<br />
The DFF had invite manufacturers of<br />
clothing, shoes, bags, jewellery, and other<br />
fashion accessories to book a stand at this<br />
prestigious event and allow them to exhibit<br />
as well as network with industry experts<br />
and fashion buyers.<br />
The municipality’s main aim was to help<br />
small, medium and micro enterprises<br />
(<strong>SMME</strong>’s) by allowing them to get advice<br />
from successful businessmen and<br />
women on how to sustain and grow their<br />
businesses.<br />
Then on the 21 to the 24 the<br />
municipality was able to invited <strong>SMME</strong>’s<br />
to register and exhibit their work for the<br />
exhibition platform.<br />
This had allowed them to include a<br />
number of empowerment practises and<br />
seminars to be headlined by influential<br />
businesspeople.<br />
While the Durban Business Fair<br />
programme is the tool to expose and<br />
equip emerging businesses, it also<br />
serves as a banner that showcases all<br />
the opportunities and services available<br />
in the Municipality to businesses so that<br />
they will know exactly how to access<br />
those.<br />
This year’s key focus was on youth<br />
development and township economies<br />
revitalisation.<br />
Models showing the latest Fashion Trends on the Durban Fashion show<br />
Male and female Models on the Durban Fashion Fair showing off the creative designer clothing.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
5 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
Department of Labour Leads Inspection Blitz and Advocacy<br />
Sessions in KwaZulu-Natal<br />
By :: Oyewo-Umoh Adetola Adetola Elizabeth Elizabeth<br />
The Department of Labour’s Inspection<br />
and Enforcement Services (IES) on September<br />
26 <strong>2018</strong> conducted a blitz and<br />
advocacy sessions in Durban and surrounding<br />
areas. The blitz and advocacy<br />
sessions were in line with the Department<br />
of Labour National Inspectors three-day<br />
Conference held at the Olive Convention<br />
Centre Durban from 24-26 September.<br />
The conference which also discussed<br />
issues affecting vulnerable workers in<br />
the workplaces, employment standards,<br />
Court referrals and challenges faced by<br />
the inspectorate. In addition to the Basic<br />
conditions of employment Act (BCEA),<br />
Employment Agencies Standard (EAS)<br />
and Employment Equity Act (EEA) norms/<br />
standards for 2019/20 financial year.<br />
The blitz and advocacy sessions focused<br />
on the Hospitality Sectors, Private<br />
Security, and Wholesale & Retail sectors.<br />
The blitz inspection in KwaZulu-Natal<br />
focused on Brickfield, Sparks & Alpine<br />
Roads, and West Street, Malls (Galleria,<br />
Connubial, and Arbour Crossing).<br />
The advocacy also targeted commuters<br />
in taxi ranks, railway stations. With focus<br />
in areas such as: Ntuzuma, KwaMashu,<br />
Pinetown, Isipingo, Springfield, Pinetown,<br />
Berea and the Durban central business<br />
district.<br />
Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)<br />
Commissioner Teboho Maruping pointed out<br />
during the conference that ‘we want our clients<br />
to access our services ‘anytime, anyplace, and<br />
anywhere’. We want to take away people from<br />
Labour Centre queues. We want to move to<br />
these technological platforms by December. ‘If<br />
the records are correct and captured accurately<br />
and updated, there was no reason why claims<br />
payment should be delayed’, he said.<br />
Maruping also announced that the UIF would<br />
be unveiling a co-operative model to encourage<br />
an active citizenry in which the workers would<br />
blow the whistle on non-complying employers<br />
when it comes to UIF.<br />
Deputy Director General; Inspection and<br />
Enforcement Services (IES), Aggy Moiloa in<br />
her speech reiterated ‘that workplace labour<br />
laws need to respond to the fourth industrial<br />
revolution as workplaces are dynamic which<br />
calls for workplace and business to respond to<br />
the trend’.<br />
She emphasized also that it is important that<br />
employers comply with South Africa’s labour<br />
legislation such as the Basic Conditions of<br />
Employment Act (BCEA), the implementation of<br />
the employment equity (EE) and unemployment<br />
insurance act (UIA). <strong>SMME</strong> gathered that with<br />
the blitz inspection to hospitality business in<br />
the Durban North Beach, employers paid their<br />
employees the minimum wage between R18<br />
per hour 18-19 per minimum.<br />
Pictured during the blitz Inspection at North beach from second left,<br />
Deputy Director General; Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES),<br />
Aggy Moiloa f lanked by the Department of Labour Inspectors.<br />
Umbukiso wosomabhizinisi ugubhe engama-20<br />
By : Anele S. Gumede & Zanele P. Ndimande<br />
Umbukiso waminyaka yonke i-Durban Business<br />
fair ubungaze iminyaka engama-20 selokhu<br />
yasungulwa. Mhlaka 18 kuya ku 24 kuMandulo<br />
<strong>2018</strong> i-Durban ICC isingathe umbukiso<br />
wakulonyaka obuseqophelweni eliphezulu.<br />
Lombukiso ongu khukhulela ngoqo ulandela<br />
eminye yezifunda ebibanjelwe ezindaweni<br />
ezifana nakwa Mnyandu Mall, Bridge City Mall<br />
nase Harmmasdale.<br />
Inhlosonqangi yalombukiso ukunikeza<br />
osomabhizinisi abangama klume ithuba<br />
lokubonisa imisebenzi yabo, ukuvulela<br />
inkundla yokuhwebelana kosomabhizinisi<br />
kanye nokufukula izinhlaka ezahlukene<br />
zamabhizinisi esingabala kuzo ezemfashini<br />
kanye nezama filimu ukukha nje phezulu.<br />
Ngosuku lokuvula lombukiso mhlaka 18<br />
kuMandulo <strong>2018</strong>, kwasingathwa i-Business<br />
Indaba lapho osomabhizinisi kanye nomphakathi<br />
wonkana bathola khona izinkulumo ezakhayo<br />
eziqhamuka kosomabhizinisi abahlonishwayo<br />
emikhakheni eyahlukene.<br />
Ngaphandle kokwakha amadlelwane<br />
kosomabhizinisi base Ningizimu Afrika,<br />
lombukiso uphinde wanxenxa osomabhizinisi<br />
abasuka emazweni afana nelase Mozambique,<br />
Ghana nase Zimbabwe.<br />
Phakathi kwezikhulumi ezinamava ezinikezwe<br />
ithuba lokukhuluma nomphakathi singabala<br />
uBethabile Manzini we Bazise Investments okuyi<br />
pulazi lonogwaja.<br />
“Onogwaja banenyama eseqophelweni<br />
eliphezulu uma iqhathaniswa nezinye izinyama.<br />
Futhi ayinazo izithiyo zezenkolo. Abafuyi okanye<br />
osomabhizinisi abafisa ukungenela kulomkhakha<br />
siyakwazi nokubasiza sibalekelele ukuze nabo<br />
bahlomule ngo nogwaja” Kubeka lo somabhizinisi<br />
ophinde wengeza ngokuthi abantu bengaxhumana<br />
naye uma befuna ukungena kulomkhakha.<br />
Ngaphandle kosomabhizinisi abebeyizikhulumi,<br />
kuphinde kwasingathwa izigcawu zenkulumo<br />
ezahlukene Phakathi kwazo esingabala isigcawu<br />
ebesinosomabhizinisi uSihle Ndaba umphathi<br />
we Majozi Broos Construction, Joe Odhiambo we<br />
Agrement SA, kanye no Rajan Redby we KZN Oil.<br />
Izingqinamba eziningi zihlonziwe kwaphinde<br />
kwanikezelwa ngezisombululo kulesi sigcawu.<br />
Ukushintsha kwendlela yokusebenza kungenwe<br />
emhlabeni kungenelelwe kweze technology<br />
kubalulwe njengento esemqoka kakhulu.<br />
Osomabhizinisi abanamava bagqugquzele<br />
abangama klume.<br />
Mhlaka 18-19 ku Mandulo <strong>2018</strong>, osomabhizinisi<br />
abangama klume bathole izinkulumo ezinamava.<br />
kosomabhizinisi abasezinhlakeni ezahlukene<br />
ngenhloso yokubakhulisa nokubaqinisa amadolo<br />
Lezinsuku ziphinde zasetshenziswa njengesizinda<br />
sokuhwebelana Phakathi kosomabhizinisi<br />
abancane nabakhulu ngenhloso yokubona ukuthi<br />
abukho yini ubudlelwano okungakheka Phakathi<br />
kwabo.<br />
Phakathi kwezikhulumi kulezinsuku singabala<br />
uMusa Makhunga, umongameli we Durban<br />
Chamber of Commerce and Industry no Mlu<br />
Clive Manci we OTEO Investment Holdings and<br />
Presidential BEE Advisory Council. uManci uveze<br />
ukuthi inkinga ngosoma bhizinisi ukuthi bafuna<br />
ukwenzelwa kakhulu.<br />
“Inkinga osomabhizinisi ababhekene nayo ukuthi<br />
basonga izandla belindele ukuthi bathole usizo<br />
kodwa bengabheki ukuthi bona bengazisiza<br />
kanjani” Kubeka u Manci ngaphambi kokwengeza<br />
ngokuthi uMasipala kumele ubeke imali<br />
ezobhekelela ukusiza osomabhizinisi ukuqala<br />
amabhizinisi abo.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
6 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
“Tourism is the future”-<br />
tourists are spending less<br />
According to Statistics S.A from 2016 to 2917 the<br />
Domestic Tourism Industry has over went a major shift.<br />
There has been a huge amount of increase in Domestic<br />
tourism as the number of day trips as compared to<br />
night trips. Travellers are travelling more but they are<br />
significantly spending less on their trips. According to a<br />
survey conducted by the Domestic Tourism Survey<br />
(DTS) in 2017, the number of day trips increased from<br />
39.4 million in 2016 to 48 million in 2017.<br />
Overnight trips are still growing significantly as well<br />
but they have had a smaller increase from 2016 to<br />
2017. With of 43 million to 44.4 million . statistics<br />
S.A. says that this decrease has been caused by<br />
spending more money on food, beverages, recreation,<br />
accommodation, culture and also shopping.<br />
Travellers usually go to trips commonly for taking<br />
overnight trips to visit family members and friends<br />
and not making use of paid accommodation which<br />
decreases the amount of money spent on hotels, guest<br />
houses, B&B’S.<br />
However the money spent on overnight trips has<br />
decreased from both 2016 to 2017. Mostly day trips<br />
are for shopping but it’s not always the biggest<br />
shopping malls in South Africa that gain in terms of<br />
retail. Shopping is one of the reasons why people travel<br />
from provinces to provinces. From Northern Cape,<br />
Limpompo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.<br />
Most tourists travel to the Western Cape for leisure<br />
purposes, visiting family or friends and also to see<br />
popular destinations. In 2016 and 2017 Gauteng and<br />
Western Cape were the most popular destination<br />
for day travellers. Those for overnight trips preferred<br />
Limpompo.<br />
Mostly tourists spend up to one week on their<br />
destination for overnight trips. Staying with friends and<br />
relatives was the most popular for KwaZulu-Natal and<br />
Western Cape. Also taxis were the most popular mode<br />
of transport with travellers taking a maximum of ten trips<br />
daily.<br />
In South Africa tourism has the potential to make a<br />
function be well known hence creating a profit for<br />
the country economically but tourists spending less<br />
leads to less money being contributed to the economy<br />
and also to the country itself. Tourism is one of the<br />
industries that contribute that contribute to economic<br />
growth and tourism is the future.<br />
<strong>SMME</strong> WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW<br />
Uhlelo lwama tender<br />
Isingeniso<br />
Kulowo ohlinzeka ngomsebenzi okanye izidingo, uhlelo lwama<br />
tender lusho ukuthola umsebenzi omusha wesikhashana okanye<br />
owesikhathi eside.<br />
Enkampanini edinga ukuthenga okanye ukuhlinzeka<br />
ngomsebenzi, uhlelo lwe tender uhlelo oluhle ukumema,<br />
ukucubungula kanye nokunikezela nge nkontileka.<br />
Uhlelo lwama tender luyaye ludinge lokhu okulandelayo:<br />
Ngubani onegunya lokufaka isicelo se tender<br />
Ngesani isicelo esifakwayo?<br />
Imiphi imigomo okumele ilandelwe ngokwalokhu okulandelayo:<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
o<br />
I-Product<br />
Inani<br />
Izinhlelo zokwenza umsebenzi<br />
Isikhathi senkontileka<br />
Ubulunga benkampani<br />
Amandla ezezimali<br />
Imigomo ne mibandela<br />
Luyini uhlelo lwama tender<br />
Uhlelo lwama tender kulapho izimboni ezifana nezika hulumeni<br />
nezinkampani ezinkulu ziveza ukuthi zifuna izidingo thizeni mase<br />
zicela ukuba abantu bafake izicelo zokuhlinzeka lezozidingo.<br />
Iyini i-tender<br />
I-tender isicelo esifakwa inkampani ngenhloso yokuhlinzeka<br />
izidingo ezisuke zidingwa inkampani thizeni. Isicelo se tender<br />
sijwayele ukufakwa ngemuva kokuba kube nesikhangiso<br />
ngokudingakala kwezidingo lowo ofaka isicelo anazo. Uma seku<br />
sayindwe izivumelwano ze tender, lowo ofake isicelo kumele<br />
enze njengoba kuvunyelenwe ukubalekela ukuba nezinkinga<br />
zezomthetho.<br />
I-tender kuba ngevulelekile okanye evalekile.<br />
I-tender evalekile ileyo lapho abafaka izicelo zokwenza<br />
umsebenzi kusuke beceliwe ukuba benzenjalo okanye evuleleke<br />
kwabakhethekileyo kuphela. I0-tender evulelekile ileyo lapho<br />
uwonke wonke angafaka khona isicelo sokwenza umsebenzi<br />
okanye ukuhlinzeka ngezidingo.<br />
Uma inkampani isikhethiwe, kumle ilandele loluhlelo, idlule<br />
nakulezi zigaba:<br />
• Tender design<br />
• Tender publication<br />
• Initial evaluation<br />
• Short-listing<br />
• Final selection<br />
• Contractual agreement<br />
Kusemqoka ukuqonda zonke lezizigaba uma uphendula<br />
esikhangisweni se tender, kwazise ukuqonda kancono kwandisa<br />
amathuba okunqoba kwakho.<br />
Kusemqoka kakhulu ukukhumbula ukuthi abantu abenza i-tender<br />
document ibona laba abakhetha usonkontileka ozowina i-tender.<br />
Ngamanye amazwi, abantu abenza ama tender documents,<br />
balindele lokhu kuwe:<br />
Ukuthi uphendule yonke imibuzo ngokuzimise futhi nangendlela<br />
elula ukuyiqonda<br />
Ukuthi ufake onke amaphepha adingekayo ngendlela<br />
abawafuna ngayo.<br />
Ukuthi izimpendulo zakho zibe ngendlela ezoba lula kubona<br />
uma befunda<br />
Abafuni ukubona sengathi ufaka imininingwane engesilona<br />
iqiniso ngenhloso yokuba lutha.<br />
Tshengisa ukuqonda ubudlelwano phakathi kwama costs,<br />
revenue kanye ne profit ukuze uwine i-tender.<br />
Izindlela zokuhlonza ofake isicelo esingaphumelela ziqala<br />
ngokufakwa kwemibandela ebizwa ngama ‘killer criteria’<br />
lena imibandela okuthi uma ungayilandelanga isicelo sakho<br />
sikhahlelwe ngazo zombili izinyawo. Lokhu kwenzelwa<br />
ukunciphisa umsebenzi kulabo abacubungula izicelo.<br />
ENingizimu Afrika ama ‘killer criteria’ ambandakanya lokhu:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Black Economic Empowerment<br />
Acceptance of a Legal Term & Conditions<br />
Certain technical aspects of the client’s requirements<br />
which are considered non-negotiable requirements<br />
Kusemqoka ukuthi isicelo sakho sihambisane ngqo nama ‘killer<br />
criteria’ amaningi kakhulu ukuze kuzogcina kusale sona etafuleni.<br />
Uma usudlulile kuma Killer Criteria, uyabe usufakwa ohlwini<br />
okungasetshenzwa nalo, uma usungene kuloluhlu kulapho<br />
umsebenzi wangempela uqala khona.<br />
Wena neqembu lakho osebenzisana nalo sekumele niveze<br />
amava enu ukulwisana nenkinga okusuke kubhekenwe nayo<br />
okanye izindlela enizokwenza ngazo lomsebenz eniwufakele<br />
isicelo. Maningi amathuba okuba nibizwe ukuzoveza amaqophelo<br />
kanye nendlela yokwenza umsebenzi ngendlela esikhathini<br />
esizayo. Ningaphinde nibizwe futhi ukuzohlonza ukuthi indlela<br />
yenu yokwenza iyafana yini naleyo yalowo osuke efuna<br />
abazokwenza umsebenzi okanye bahlinzeke ngezidingo.<br />
Empeleni, ukuhlonza abantu abalungele ukwenza umsebenzi<br />
kwenziwa ngabantu abanamava ekwenzeni lowo msebenzi.<br />
Kwesinye isikhathi kutholakala umcwaningi mabhuku ozohlola<br />
zonke izinto. Kwesinye isikhathi uyabizelwa ukuzocelwa ukuba<br />
wehlise isamba semali osuke uyifuna ngokwenza umsebenzi.<br />
Kuzomele wazi ukuthi abahlonza abantu abalungele ukuhlinzeka<br />
ngomsebenze bazoba nesandla sensimbi, inhloso yabo ukwazi<br />
kancono nge bhizinisi lakho ngokushesha. Uma uzohlinzeka<br />
ngento ejwayelekile ubungako bemali oyifunayo ikhona<br />
okungakuweza ngolubanzi.<br />
Ngaphandle kwalokho, okunye okusemqoka iqophelo lento<br />
ohlinzeka ngayo. Izinkampani uma zikhangisa nge tender zisuke<br />
zazi kahle kamhlophe ukuthi imalini okumele ziyichithe kulowo<br />
msebenzi. Khumbula ama Profit – Revenue – Costs.<br />
Ngokwakho, inani lento oyidayisayo likukhombisa umnotho kodwa<br />
ngokwe client lakho inani likhombisa ukulahlekelwa imali.<br />
Ayikho inkampani engakuphoqa ukuba uthathe imali ongayifuni<br />
kodwa ukuba madolo nzima ukugudluka enanini olifunayo<br />
kungaholela ekutheni ulahlekelwe umsebenzi osuke uwugaqele.<br />
Ngakho ke, ngokwe client yakho umehluko usenanini lakho<br />
maliqhathaniswa nelabanye. Bazokwenza ngakho konke<br />
okusemandleni ukuqinisekisa ukuthi uyalehlisa.<br />
I-Total Cost of Ownership kanye nama Life Costs ngamanye<br />
ama temu avame ukuvela uma kukhulunywa ngama tender.<br />
Ngokomthetho asho into eyodwa. Uma i-client lithenga okufanayo<br />
kulokhu okufunekayo wena mase uthatha isinqumo sokulidayisela<br />
ngaphambi kokuthumela isicelo se tender.<br />
Gcwalisa mase uyathumela i-tender<br />
Nazi izindlela zokugcwalisa nokuthumela amaphepha e tender;<br />
Isikhathi – Zinike isikhathi esaneme sokuhlela nokugcwalisa<br />
amaphepha akho<br />
Qinisekisa ukuthi amaphepha akho aphelele onke<br />
Yazi ngaphambi kwesikhathi lapho kumele uwathumelele khona<br />
Amaphepha ama tender athunyelelwa enjengoba, hhayi ngama<br />
email okanye nge fax.<br />
Onke amakhasi kumele asayindwe<br />
Qinisekisa ukuthi onke amaphepha okumele abe ngaphakathi<br />
alungile ngesikhathi (Khumbula, amaphepha entela athatha cishe<br />
iviki ukubuya kwabaka SARS)<br />
Thola ulwazi olufanele nezindlela ezintsha zokuthola ulwazi ngama<br />
tender.Njengomuntu ohlinzeka usizo, isigaba sokuqala sokuthola<br />
inkontileka enomsoco ukufaka isicelo se tender yento okwaziyo<br />
ngampela ukuyenza okanye ukunikezela ngezinsiza kuyona.<br />
Ukuzama ukuthola umsebenzi omusha kuyitoho elikhathazayo<br />
ku somabhizinisi. Kodwa ke, asikho isidingo sokukhathazeka.<br />
Izinkampani ezidinga usizo ziyafuna ukuba izikhangiso zazo zama<br />
tender zifinyelele ebantwini. Ngakho ke, izikhangiso ungazithola<br />
emaphephandabeni, amabhuku, ama emails kanye nase<br />
maposini.<br />
Cishe zonke izinkampani ezinkulu analo ikhasi le website<br />
elimelene nokukhangisa ama tender. Uma kukhona I tender<br />
oyifunayo kulelo khasi, amathuba maningi okuthi kuthiwe<br />
download amaphepha kufaka isicelo atholakala khona kulelo<br />
khasi belu. Uma kungenjalo, bayayifaka imininingwane yomuntu<br />
ongaxhumana naye ukuze uthole lawo maphepha,<br />
Kwesinye isikhathi ukuze ufake isicelo kudingeka uthamele<br />
isigcawu esenziwe ileyo nkampani ngomsebenzi ewudingayo or<br />
kanye uthumele incwadi yokubazisa ngesifiso sakho sokubenzela<br />
umsebenzi.<br />
Cubungula ama phepha aqondane nalokho okufakela isicelo.<br />
Kuyinto elula ukusindwa ngumthamo wama tender okumele<br />
uwafakele izicelo, kodwa emaqinisweni ambalwa nje okusuke<br />
elungele wena ne bhizinisi lakho. Kuzokumoshela isikhathi<br />
ukuphendula lelo na lelo tender elifika etafuleni lakho. Ama<br />
tender amakulu adinga isikhathi eside ukuwa lungiselela nokuwa<br />
gcwalisa.<br />
Njengayo yonke imizamo yokuhwebelana, ukhiye ulele<br />
ekuhlonzeni imakethe yakho kanye nzinto wena okwazi ukuzenza.<br />
Kusemqoka ukubheka amathuba okuyithola I tender ngaphambi<br />
kokumosha isikhathi esiningi kuyo. Empeleni izinkampani<br />
eziningi zinemigomo emningi ngokubheka ukuthi basi fake noma<br />
cha isicelo se tender esuke ikhangisiwe. Ezinye izinkampani<br />
ziba nemihlangano ukubheka ukuthi bazifake yini izicelo<br />
zemisebenzi thizeni noma cha. Lokhu bakwenza ngokubheka<br />
izinto abazihlinzekayo kanye nolwazi abanalo njenge nkampani<br />
emkhakheni thizeni.<br />
Ukubheka ukuthi isicelo usifake noma cha kukunciphisela<br />
izindleko kuphinde kukusize ukuthi ungafaki umfutho omningi<br />
entweni engeke ikuzalele zithelo. Kudingeka ulwazi olunzulu<br />
lwalokhu, isibonelo, ukubheka ukuthi ungenza imali okanye<br />
ungalahlekelwa inzuzo ngokuzama ukufaka isicelo sokwenza<br />
umsebenzi.<br />
Ngokuso bala nje, izinkampani zizodinga ukubona amandla<br />
akho ezezimali ngaphambi kokukuthemba ngomsebenzi ukuze<br />
kubonakale ukuthi ungakwazi yini ukuwumela. Ukuhluleka<br />
ukwenza lokhu kungadala ukulahlekelwa umsebenzi kulabo<br />
ababhekelele ukucubungula amabhuku.<br />
Njengomuntu ohlinzeka ngomsebenzi, nawe kungenzeka<br />
ulahlekelwe imali. Izinto okumele uzibeke eqhulwini njengo<br />
somabhizinisi ukuthi uzoyenza yini inzuzo. Lokhu ke<br />
kumbandakanya ukuthi uhlolisise izinto eziningi wenze ne<br />
‘Research and Development’, lokho kubheka kakhulu imiholo<br />
yabasebenzi, indlela yokwakha, izindlela zokuzikhangisa kanye<br />
nokunye okuningi. Uma usukhipha imali ofisa ukuwenza ngayo<br />
umsebenzi kusemqoka ukubheka ukuthi imali wena ohlose<br />
ukuyenza uma usuphothuliwe.<br />
Kunezinto zangaphakathi enkampanini yakho okumele<br />
uzibhekelele, lezi zinto zingathikameza indlela onquma ngayo<br />
inani lokwenza umsebenzi okanye zishaye inzuzo ongayenza<br />
ngomsebenzi ozobe uwenza.<br />
Uma usisithathile isinqumo ngenani olidingayo, kudingeka ukuba<br />
ubheke lokhu okulandelayo:<br />
After deciding your final selling price, you need to consider how<br />
the client will want to pay and what the impact would be on your<br />
organization. Some options include:<br />
Izokhokhwa kanye iyisizumbulu<br />
Izokhokhwa kancane kancane<br />
Okanye nizoba nesivumelwano sokubolekiselana<br />
Ngokujwayelekile, uzobe uhlinzeka izinsiza ezisuka emazweni<br />
angaphandle okanye ozithenge ngemali yakwa manye amazwe.<br />
Uma kunjalo kumele uqaphele ukuthi amandla omnotho awefani.<br />
Lokho ke kwaziwa njengama ‘external factors’ kanti ayingozi<br />
kakhulu.<br />
Kunenani okumele ulibeke lokuthi awudluli kulona<br />
ngokulahlekelwa imali, lelinani laziwa njenge ‘Breakeven point’.<br />
Kwezinye izikhathi izinkampani ziyakwamukela ukulahlekelwa<br />
inqobo nje uma zizothola ama client amasha. Kodwa ke lokho<br />
kuyingozi kwazise ibhizinisi limelele ukwenza inzuzo. Okokuqala<br />
ungenza isicelo sokwenza umsebenzi esingakwenzela inzuzo<br />
enkulu ukuze uma kukhalazwa uzokwazi ukwehla uze ufike kulena<br />
obuvele uyifuna.<br />
Khubula, abantu abasuke bedinga usizo bahlakaniphile<br />
ngalendlela nawe ohlakaniphe ngayo. Okwesibili, uma<br />
kuboniswana ngokwezezimali kusemqoka ukwazi ukuthi iliphi<br />
inani ongehli ngaphansi kwalo noma ngabe sekwenzenjani. Lokho<br />
kuyakusiza ukuthi ungabi ngu vuma zonke.<br />
Ukuqonda izinto ongasoze wagudluka kuzona uma uhlinzeka<br />
umsebenzi kusemqoka kakhulu. Uma unikeza ngemibandela<br />
yezezimali nakhu okumele ukwazi, uma uhlinzeka ngezinto<br />
eziphathekayo kungenzeka ulahlekelwe inzuzo, uma ubanikeza<br />
intuba yokukhetha emananini amaningi nalapho futhi<br />
kusengenzeka ulahlekelwe.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
7 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
Kubalulekile ukuba namaphepha achaza kabanzi ngenani<br />
odayisa ngalo, nazozonke izinhlaka eziphathelene nezezimali<br />
ebhizinisini lakho. Lokhu kuzokunikeza ukuthula uma sekuvela<br />
imibuzo efana nalena ethi ‘singenza njani uma..’<br />
Ngaphambi kokuphendula isicelo se tender, kusemqoka ukuthola<br />
umuntu ozokucubungelela sona. Abheke ukuthi ngabe ukufake<br />
konke yini okudingakalayo.<br />
Kuhle ukuhlukanisa izigaba ze tender ngokwabantu<br />
abazosebenza ingxenye ethize yesicelo mase ubeka umuntu<br />
oyedwa obizwa nge ‘Accounts Manager’ okunguyena<br />
ozohlanganisa yonke imibono kuphunywe ne tender eyodwa<br />
engu ngqo. Kodwa ke amanye amandla engabekwa ekomidini<br />
lezezimali kanye nalelo elibhekelela ukwenziwa komsebenzi ngqo.<br />
Ikomidi lokwenza umsebenzi libhekane ngqo nokuphendula<br />
ingxenye yokwenziwa komsebenzi esicelweni se tender.<br />
Ekugcineni ngu wena usomaqhuzu ozoba namandla okugcina<br />
ngci ekuthenini leso sicelo se tender siyahamba no cha.<br />
Ikomidi lezezimali libhekelela ukubona amandla enkampani<br />
kwezezimali. Kumele bavume ukuthi ngabe izimali zikhona na<br />
zokwenza lowo msebenzi thizeni. Ibona abakwazi nokubona<br />
ukuthi ikhona yini inzuzo engenziwa uma isicelo sokwenza<br />
umsebenzi siphumelela.<br />
Bonisana nabakunikeza izinsiza uphinde uphenye kabanzi<br />
ngezindlela ezintsha zokwenza umsebenzi owenzayo khona<br />
uzohlale uyinyama kwabakudingayo.<br />
Ukunqoba itender kungaphezulu kokuphendula imibuzo ebuziwe<br />
nokuhambisa amaphepha akho ngesikhathi, kuthatha ubuhlakani,<br />
iphupho kanye nokuqonda okudingakalayo kuwe.<br />
Ezikhathini eziningi, indlela ophendula ngayo kumele bayibone<br />
njenge sisombululo. Lokho kungadinga ukuhlanganisa<br />
abantu abaningi ozosebenzisana nabo. Kudingeka ubhekane<br />
nezingqinamba ngisho ezezimali. Konke lokhu futhi kuhlukile<br />
ngamuntu ngamunye osebenzisana naye. Umsebenzi wakho<br />
ukuhlanganisa, wenze kwenzeke ngendlela ofisa ngayo.<br />
Ngomuntu ngamunye ozomsebenzisa kulesi sisombululo sakho,<br />
ubunzima buya qonga, ikakhulukazi uma kudingeka inkampani<br />
yaphesheya kwezilwandle. Lokhu kudinga ube namava<br />
okuxoxisana nabantu.<br />
Ekuzameni ukuhlolisisa ukuthi imalini okumele uyifake esicelweni<br />
sakho nakhu okumele ukubheke,<br />
• Ukuthi labo oqophisana nabo benzani? Babiza malini? Imalini<br />
abangase bayifune ngalomsebenzi?<br />
• Ngabe unamava kangakanani lowo ofake iskhangiso sokufuna<br />
ama tender endimeni yakhe?<br />
Ukuthola ulwazi kusemqoka kakhulu kodwa ukufaka isicelo<br />
okuyisona sona yikhona okungakunqumela ukuthi uyayinqoba<br />
noma cha le tender. Kudingeka ufunde indima okuyona kanye<br />
nendima iclient yakho ekuyo. Ukuwina I tender kumele ungene<br />
emqondweni wlowo ofake isikhangiso sokufuna abazofaka izicelo<br />
zama tender.<br />
Okokwengeza nje, kuzodingeka ube nolwazi olujulile lwezi<br />
makethe, kudingeka uhlale ngasosonke isikhathi usesimweni<br />
sokwazi. Kungabibikho okukweqa ngaphezulu ungazi ukuthi<br />
kwenzakalani kumele wazi bonke abantu endimeni yakho,<br />
uphinde uzazi wena amandla akho kanye nalapho oli klume<br />
khona. Uma ama client engakuthembi ngabe engawenza yini<br />
umsebenzi nawe na? uma ama client ekuthemba azokuthanda<br />
nawo.<br />
Izinto ezisemqoka okumele uzenze kuwina I-tender.<br />
Mhla zingama-27 ku May 2003, uJohn Timperly, umbhali we<br />
Winning Work, wanikeza lolulwazi olulandelayo ngokuhluka<br />
kwakho kwabanye abantu nokunqoba itender. Unikeza ulwazi<br />
olunzulu ekhasini lakhe le website www.winningwork.com<br />
Ukuzama ukuqhamka nezizathu ezizwakalayo zokuthi kungani<br />
kumele kukhethwe wen ne nkampani yakho iyona ndlela<br />
yokunqoba. Uma uhluleka ukuveza kucace bha ukuthi kungani<br />
kumele kukhethwe, ulindele ukuthi iclient yona ikubone kanjani<br />
njengomuntu ongawenza umsebenzi? Kungani ungaqali<br />
ngokubheka ukuthi yini eyenza wena nebhizinisi lakho nihluke<br />
kwamanye.<br />
Ukudlulisela kanjan ukwazi kwakho na? sicabanga ukuthi<br />
usebenzisa kakhulu konke okuhle ngawe mase ukufaka phansi<br />
esicelweni sakho se tender. Kunomehluko phakathi kobunjalo<br />
bento kanye nendlela esicabanga ngayo.<br />
Ake sibheke ezinye zezindlela zokunqoba itender:<br />
Kunolwazi oluningi ongalusebenzisa ukuthola igxathu ngaphambili<br />
kwalabo ofake nabo izicelo.<br />
Noma ngabe abantu ofaka kubo isicelo abanalo ulwazi olunzulu,<br />
kodwa sesinokubona ompetha bezimboni bemangaza abantu<br />
abaningi ngolwazi nangokuqonda kwabo umkhakha abakuwona<br />
ngokubheka ama client abanawo okanye abake baba nawo. Nazi<br />
izinhlaka eziyisi Hlanu zokubheka kabanzi ngesikhathi esifushane.<br />
Umbuzo onzima: Ngabe konke lokhu uyakwenza na?<br />
• Ukubheka ireport yonyaka kanye namabhuku ezezimali. Lokhu<br />
kuzokunika ulwazi oluningi ngenkampani ofakela kuyona isicelo<br />
se tender.<br />
• Bheka ikhasi labo le website kanye noshicilelo lwabo ukuthola<br />
olunye ulwazi olunzulu ngenkampani yabo. Imfihlo yokuwina<br />
• Vundulula okubhalwe ngenkampani ozofaka kuyona isicelo<br />
emaphephandabeni kanye nemibono eshiwoyo ngalenkampani.<br />
• Bheka awakho ama records ukubheka ubudlelwano ongaba<br />
nakho ne nkampani ofaka kuyona isicelo. Kunokwenzeka ukuthi<br />
kukhona lapho enihlobene khona nokuyinto ongayisebenzisa<br />
ukuveza ukuthi nihamba endleleni eyodwa. Lokhu kungaba into<br />
esemqoka kakhulu.<br />
• Thola ulwazi lwangaphakathi ngendima, lokhu kukunikeza ulwazi<br />
olunzulu ngokumele ukwenze ukuphumelela. Uma ungenalo<br />
ulwazi olwanele, funda amabhuku akhuluma ngqo ngalendima.<br />
Lokhu kusemqoka ukuthola ulwazi ngezinto ezenzekayo<br />
ngaphakathi embonini kanye nolwazi lwezinto eziseke zenzeka<br />
ongazisebenzisa ukuveza ulwazi onalo.<br />
Ukunqoba i-tender #2: Bonakala njengo cabanga kakhulu<br />
Akekho umuntu oqotho emsebenzini wakhe ofisa ukubonakala<br />
njengomuntu ongenawo amava kwakwenzayo. Abaqotho<br />
bazibuza ukuthi ‘Lokhu engikuhlinzekayo kungena kanjani<br />
enkampanini engifuna ukuyinikeza khona?’ yenza njengoba benza<br />
Bheka kusuka phezulu kuya phansi<br />
Hlolisisa Amandla akho, ilapho obuthaka khona, amathuba kanye<br />
nezithiyo (SWOT Analysis) abanye abasemkhakheni okuwo<br />
ababhekana nawo. Bheka ibhizinisi ngeso lokhozi ukuze ubone<br />
ubunjalo balo mase ukhuluma ngento onolwazi olunzulu ngayo.<br />
Khanda isithombe sakho.<br />
Manje ke bheka okuhlinzekayo, nokubekwa nguwena<br />
etafuleni ubheke ukuthi kuyahambisana yini nokufunwa iclient<br />
ngokuqaphela lokhu okulandelayo:<br />
I-product/ nalapho edingeka khona<br />
Amandla onawo okukwenza okanye okudingakalayo ukuze<br />
ukwenze<br />
Ubuchwepheshe ozokudinga okanye isipiliyoni<br />
Ukunqoba i-tender #3: Hlakanipha ukudlula abanye<br />
Ukucubungula kwakho izimbangi zakho kuncike kakhulu<br />
ekubhekeni ama tender applications abake bawenza<br />
ngaphambilini, ubheke izinto abazibalula njengalezo abahle kuzo,<br />
ababuthaka kuzo njalo njalo. Lokho kuzokwenza ukwazi ukubona<br />
ukuthi ikuphi lapho okumele ukhuphule khona amasokisi futhi<br />
kukunike igxathu elingaphambili kunalelo lezimbangi zakho.<br />
ZAMA LOKHU<br />
Cubungulisisa kabanzi Amandla nobuthaka bezimbangi zakho<br />
Iluphi ulwazi namakhono abanawo?<br />
Iziphi izinto abazihlinzekayo, ulwazi Kanye namacebo abanawo?<br />
Ikuphi abangenakho?<br />
Imiphi imigudu abahamba ngayo?<br />
Bheka inkambo yabo uhlolisise ubudlelwano babo nabanye<br />
bakwamanye amazwe njengakwi ‘Nous’ ka Sherlock Holmes.<br />
Phatha izinkinga ezinjalo ngokucophelela, uma kukhona<br />
abanqaba nakho hlehla kahle ngaphandle kwempi. Uma<br />
uzophokopheka ekufuneni kwakho ulwazi noma kunqatshwa nalo<br />
kuzokwenza ungathembakali futhi ubukeke njengomuntu oyisilwi.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #4: ibakhona uma bekudinga<br />
Hlolisisa umuntu ngamunye lokho abacabanga ukuthi<br />
kusemqoka kubona kumele kube semqoka nakuwe. Bheka lokhu<br />
okulandelayo:<br />
Yini ebagcina bengalele ebusuku?<br />
Iziphi izingqinamba ababhekana nazo? sector face?<br />
Ingabaphucula kanjani?<br />
Ngingasiza kanjani?<br />
Umbuzo onzima: uyayazi impendulo? Uma ungayazi maningi<br />
amathuba okuthi awulwenzanga ucwaningo olwanele.<br />
Ukunqoba itender #5: Bazi msalofu<br />
Bonke abathengi bakho banezinto ezihlukile abazithandayo,<br />
Kanye nezindlela abafisa kuxhunywane ngazo. Ukukhuluma<br />
kwakho nabo kumele kuvundulule izinto ezinhlanu ezifana nalezi<br />
ezilandelayo:<br />
Zama lokhu;<br />
Yini umuntu ngamunye azama ukuyizuza<br />
Ngingabasiza kanjani ukufinyelela lapho? (ngokwebhizinisi<br />
nangokwabo eceleni)<br />
Badinga imigudu enjani?<br />
Basebenzisana kanjani nabantu abanabo njengamanje?<br />
Ukubhekana nocabanga ukuthi kuyizingqinamba ezinkulu isiqalo<br />
sofuna ukukuzuza. Okumele ukwenze manje ukuhlela imihlangano<br />
yokuhlola ukuthi Labantu othi uzosebenzisana nabo bayibona<br />
bona ngempela yini obadingayo.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #6: khombisa ukuthi osebenzisana nabo<br />
bayawazi umsebenzi wabo<br />
Iclient lakho lizobhekana neqembu osulihlanganisile ukwenza<br />
umsebenzi walo ukubheka ukuthi ngabe nisebenzisana<br />
ngendlela efanele yini. Ukuhlanganisa abantu ngabanye ubenze<br />
iqembu elihlaba hlosile akusiwona umsebenzi olula neze.<br />
Kodwa kusemqoka ukuthi lowo omenzela umsebenzi azi ukuthi<br />
nikulungele ukusebenza, akekho umuntu ofuna ukusebenzelwa<br />
ngabantu abangawenzi kahle umsebenzi. Okusemqoka kuwena<br />
njengamanjeukubonisa ubuqotho, ukukhalipha Kanye namava<br />
eqembu lakho<br />
Ukunqoba itender #7: Zibuze lokhu futhi: Kungani kumele<br />
kukhethwe mina?<br />
Kusemqoka ukuzigcina ungaphambili kwalabo oqophelisana<br />
nabo ngoba uma uke walahlwa isinqumo labo abazongena<br />
ngaphambi kwakho nabo benza ngakho konke okusemandleni<br />
ukuthi bengaphunyukwa iqatha emlonyeni. Kumele ubonise<br />
ukuhluka kwakho Kanye namava oza nawo etafuleni.<br />
Ukunqoba itender #8 – Yenza umhlangano ube seqophelweni<br />
eliphezulu<br />
Indlela oziveza ngayo emihlanganweni nowethula ngayo izinhlelo<br />
zakho yenza kube lula ukuhlonza ukuthi ungumuntu olungile yini<br />
ukuthi kusetshenziswane naye. Ukuveza amava akho kakhulu<br />
lapho ninengxoxo khona kwenza ukuthi kubonakale ngampela<br />
ukuthi nguwena umuntu okulungele ngempela ukuthwala<br />
umsebenzi ofake isicelo sokuwenza. Ukuzimisela ngampela<br />
emihlanganweni kukunikeza igama elihle kakhulu Abanqoba ama<br />
tender basebenzisa lokhu okulandelayo:<br />
Babhala izinto ezixoxiwe emihlanganweni ngenhloso<br />
yokuzilungisa nokuziphucula. Baphendula ngokushesha<br />
ezikhalazweni nakokushiwo basheshe bakulungise.<br />
Babheka amathuba amasha ngasosonke isikhathi lapho<br />
besemihlanganweni khona. Bafunda kakhulu ngobudlelwano<br />
babo nezinye izinkampani.<br />
Ukunqoba itender #9 – Hlanganisa amakhanda amabili<br />
Lokhu kusho ukuthi hlala phansi neqembu lakho uzwe imibono<br />
eyahlukene kubantu abahlukene ukuze uzokwazi ukuthola<br />
nolwazi obungenalo okanye enye indlela yokwenza lokhu obufisa<br />
ukukwenza.<br />
Kodwa okusemqoka ukuqinisekisa ukuthi izigcawu<br />
zokucobelelana ngalolu lwazi ziba ngezihlaba hlosile kakhulu<br />
ngokubheka lokhu okulandelayo:<br />
Okuqukethwe ezethulweni zakho (Presentation)<br />
Indlela okwazi ukumbandakanya ngakhona abantu abasemqoka<br />
Amava akho okuvula izigcawu zokucobelelana ngolwazi<br />
Ukukhanga kwakho nabantu abayingxenye yesigcawu<br />
sokucobelelana ngolwazi 9lokhu ukuthola ngokuzwa uvo lwabantu<br />
ebenenza izethulo kubona)<br />
Izethulo ezingekho ezingeni zingakhinyabeza amathuba akho<br />
okunqoba itender. Badudule ngawo wonke Amandla onawo.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #10: Badwebele isithombe seminyaka<br />
emibili besebenzisana nawe ukuthi izimpilo zabo<br />
zingashintsha kanjani<br />
Bafake ohambeni ngokomqondo ubabonise indlela izinto<br />
ezizohamba kahle ngakhona uma besebenzisana nawe, ubabeke<br />
esithombeni ngezinto eningazizuza ndawonye ngokuphendula<br />
umbuzo othi ikuphi okuletha etafuleni? Yini ehlukile ozobengezela<br />
yona? Bengabhekana kanjani nendima abakuyo ngendlela<br />
ehlukikile?<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #11 – Banxenxe ngobufakazi<br />
Bakhombise ukuthi useke wasiza abanye abanezinkinga<br />
bona ababhekene nazo njengamanje. Yiba isisombululo<br />
sezinkinga zabo bezibone bengeke baluthola ndawo olunye<br />
usizo ngaphandle kwalolo oza nalo wena. Khetha abantu<br />
owasebenzisana kahle nabo ubenze ofakazi bakho ukuze uma<br />
bebafonela bezokhuluma okuhle kodwa ngawe.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #12 – Bahlobanise nezimbangi zabo<br />
ezinkulu<br />
Ukubaqhathanisa nezimbangi zabo ezinkulu kungadweba<br />
isithombe sokuthi uyayaz into oyenzayo. Bheka ukuthi yini<br />
eyenziwa izimbangi zabo kabi okanye kancono kunabo. Dweba<br />
isithombe sokuthi uzimisele ngokubenza ukuthi benze kancono<br />
okanye bahlale beseqhulwini kontanga yabo.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #13 – Yenza bakulwele<br />
Ukuvunywa nokuchaza iclient yakho iyona into esemqoka<br />
nengashaya kakhulu izimbangi zakho. Yakha isithombe<br />
sokwethembeka, nokuthembeka kwabantu osebenzisana nabo.<br />
Lokhu kungaphinde kukuvulele amathuba amaningi kakhulu<br />
okuthi usebenzisane ne client lakho ngokuzayo. Kodwa qikelela<br />
ukwenza lokhu okuthathu okulandelayo<br />
• Babuze ukuthi bazimisele yini ukukujaja ngendlela owenze<br />
ngayo<br />
• Qinisekisa ukuthi bajabule ngawe nangezinto ozenzayo<br />
• Batshele kabanzi ngezinto ofisa ukuthi bazazi ngawe (Ngale<br />
kwalokho bazozicingela bona izinto abafuna ukuzazi)<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #14 – ‘Ubofika uzosibona uma unethuba’<br />
Ukuletha ama client ehhovisi lakho indlela elula ukuqinisekisa<br />
ukuthi uyabanqoba kwazise uzokwazi ukubheka izinto<br />
onazo khona ongafisa bezazi nocabanga ukuthi zingakusiza<br />
ukunqoba izinhliziyo zabo Indawo ohlanganela khona ne client<br />
iletha isthombe sokuthi unamava kangakanani futhi ikunikeza<br />
nethuba lokubazisa kulabo abasemqoka enkampanini yakho<br />
ongafisa ukuthi babazi. Khombisa ukukuthakasela ukuba<br />
nabo ukuze nabo bezokujabulela ukuba nawe. Ungasabi<br />
ukubatatamisa ubahlanganise nabaphathi abakhulu okanye labo<br />
abayiziphathimandla ezingaphezulu kwezakho. Qinisekisa ukuthi<br />
uma befika wenza ngakho konke okusemandleni ukuthi uhambo<br />
lwabo bengaluboni njengento ebachithela isikhathi.<br />
Ukunqoba iTender #15 – Kunuka njengani lapha?<br />
Ngaphezulu kwezingxoxo ezisemqoka ongaba nazo nama client<br />
enye into esemqoka ukubheka abantu abavakashela izindlu<br />
zenu, kumele bebone ukuthi abantu abanivakashelayo ngabantu<br />
abasemqoka kakhulu kunabo okanye abasezingeni lenu ukuze<br />
nabo bezobona ukuthi nisebenza ngampela. Kumele bebone<br />
ezithombeni ezisemahhovisi okanye ezindongeni ukuthi abantu<br />
abanivakashelayo ngabantu abasemqoka kakhulu ukuze nabo<br />
bezokubona ukubaluleka kokusebenzisana nani.<br />
Ukuthengeka – badayisele inqubekela phambili<br />
nokukhuphuka izitebhisi<br />
Into abangasoze bakuvezela yona ukuthi abantu abafaka izicelo<br />
zokusebenzisana nenkampani ibona abasiza ukuthi bebhale<br />
izikhangiso.<br />
Iqiniso lokudayisa likanje, abantu bathenga kubantu<br />
ababathandayo nalabo ababathembayo. Ngakhoke konke<br />
kumele kube seshashalazini. Kahle kahle ama tender aqinisekisa<br />
ukwazana kancono.<br />
Ukuze ube ingxenye yenkampani thizeni ofisa ukusebenzisana<br />
nayo kudingeka ube umuntu oyisisombululo sezinkinga abanazo.<br />
Ngokujwayelekile, abantu basebenzisana nezinkampani<br />
ezizohlinzeka amava abangenawo okanye abazosombulula<br />
izinkinga ababhekene nazo. Uma wenze kanjalo ungathuki<br />
uma kunqoba wena itender ngoba ubhekene nabanye<br />
ongqondongqondo futhi bama tender abazibhekile nabo ngawo<br />
abagabe ngenani nangamava ongenawo.<br />
Isigaba esilandelayo ukufaka konke okuhle ngawe, okuhlinzekayo<br />
Kanye nemisebenzi oyenzayo. Njengamanje uzoqala ukunqoba<br />
okungena mkhawulo kodwa labo abangaphezulu kwakho<br />
ngokwamaqophelo nabo abamile bayaqhubeka nokunqoba<br />
ngendlela yabo nabo.<br />
Uma usuqala ukusebenza ngokuzikhandla imisebenzi<br />
izobe isizizela yona ama client azoqala ekhulume ngawe<br />
ngokuthi nguwena umuntu owaziyo umsebenzi wakhe futhi<br />
abangakujabulela ukusebenzisana naye.<br />
ISIPHETHO<br />
khumbula ukuthi ngaphambi kokuthumela isicelo se tender<br />
kumele ufundisise imigOMO nemibandela ngokucophelela.<br />
Akumele ubone sekudlule isikhathi ukuthi wathumelela isicelo<br />
sokwenza into ongeke ukwazi ukuyenza. Ngoba maningi<br />
amathuba okulahlekelwa inkontileka mase kuphoqa ukuthi<br />
ukhokhe izindleko.<br />
FUNDISISA KAHLE YONKE INTO UQINISEKISISE UKUTHI<br />
KONKE OKUQUKETHWE SIKUFISELA INHLAHLA<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
8 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
Mandela in Focus<br />
By : Oyewo-Umoh Adetola<br />
By : Zanele P. Ndimande<br />
On the 13th of October <strong>2018</strong> the Durban Art Gallery<br />
hosted the prestigious book launch “Mandela in Focus”<br />
in honour of the great South Africa Icon Nelson.<br />
Mandela in Focus is a coffee table pictorial work<br />
featuring the work of the former president’s private<br />
photographer, Kevin Joseph with the text written by<br />
journalist and commentator Farook Khan.<br />
The book contains unseen photographs that have not<br />
been viewed on the public sphere. The book highlights<br />
Mandela as a “man of faith” as there is a huge collection<br />
of photographs of him showing private family gatherings<br />
with Mrs Gracia Mandela and Mrs Winnie Mandela.<br />
The images contained in the book are a collector’s item<br />
and are in huge demand by tertiary institutions and by<br />
high profi le members of the state because of how depict<br />
the private life of the former president and the unseen<br />
moments that they have. Kevin Joseph had access and<br />
permission to capture private moments of Mandela.<br />
Many untold stories are in the book,<br />
they are heart-felt photographs showing moments of<br />
happiness and grief including images of the great icon’s<br />
funeral.Farook Khan has followed the life of Mandela<br />
dating back to the 60’s from his imprisonment up to his<br />
release to liberation in the 90’s. The book is living proof<br />
of the continuation of the late president’s legacy. Kevin<br />
Joseph’s business agent and Activist was also present at<br />
the book launch.<br />
Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela and his<br />
wife were present at the launch. He said “I’m gonna tell<br />
the truth and nothing but the truth. It’s very clear that<br />
many African storytellers and photographers are very<br />
proud of their African stories and sharing their African<br />
perspective to the world. Africa’s youth and children<br />
need to know that the story of Winnie Mandela and<br />
Nelson Mandela lives in the beauty, intelligence and<br />
determination we fi nd in all our young man and women<br />
of today. The story of Winnie and Nelson Mandela has<br />
been conventionalised. It’s up to us to make sure that the<br />
story of Winnie and Mandela becomes a very indigenous<br />
African story”.<br />
Journalist, commentator and writer of<br />
‘Mandela in Focus’, Farook Khan.<br />
AME Africa hosts Enterprise Development Graduation<br />
<strong>SMME</strong> Staff Reporter<br />
Bryn Wombell (General Manager at AME Africa), Thandiwe Zondi (<strong>SMME</strong> Graduate)<br />
AME Africa Healthcare hosted the AME’s Enterprise Development<br />
Graduation on 17 September <strong>2018</strong>. The keynote speaker at the<br />
event was Enterprise Development Programme Leader, Proffesor<br />
Charles Dondo.<br />
His address was mainly about lauding the new graduates and<br />
also imparting his knowledge of the industry. Also in attendance<br />
were influential people from within the AME family, namely;<br />
General Manager, Bryn Woombell and HR Manager, Advocate<br />
Gloria Khumalo.<br />
Speaking at the event, Proffesor Charles Dondo urged the<br />
graduates to believe in themselves and also strive to have things<br />
they can call their own.<br />
“The seed that AME Africa has planted in you is, training you<br />
in entrepreneurship a majority of small businesses are started<br />
by people who have no background in business at all, and you<br />
need as a business person to know the eight enterprise functions<br />
intimately and in detail this is the theoretical knowledge we have<br />
imparted in you”<br />
Dondo further said success is not about money, fame or<br />
popularity rather about creating a legacy.<br />
The most important message was along the lines of ‘If you can<br />
believe it, you can live it’. This is the time now that your journey is<br />
beginning.It is a transcition from theory to practical knowledge.<br />
You need to invest time in whatever you do, you need to explore,<br />
and you need.<br />
“Being lazy is<br />
disrespectful to<br />
people around you, it<br />
is also disrespectful<br />
to God who gave you<br />
the talent, and it is<br />
also disrespectful to<br />
yourself”<br />
After all had been said<br />
and done, the graduates<br />
were presented with<br />
their certificates.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
9 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
By : Oyewo-Umoh Adetola Elizabeth<br />
The Chemical Industries Education & Training Authority (CHIETA) Hosts Regional Stakeholders Forum.<br />
On October 5th <strong>2018</strong>, the Chemical<br />
Industries Education & Training Authority<br />
(CHIETA) engaged stakeholders on the<br />
Regional Skills Forum (RSF) engagement<br />
session to prepare for DG <strong>2018</strong>-2019<br />
Cycle3 Funding Window at the Hilton<br />
hotel Durban. The stakeholders were also<br />
updated on the Sector Skills Plan (SSP)<br />
in accordance with the requirements of<br />
the Department of Higher Education and<br />
Training (DHET) annually.<br />
Among other things, the session provided<br />
the situational context and sector profile<br />
in the chemical sector. Which is also in<br />
alignment with the skills planning for the<br />
chemical sector such as the National Skills<br />
Development Strategy (NSDS) III, the<br />
National Skills Accord, the National Youth<br />
Employment Accord (NYEA), the Quality<br />
Council for Trades and Occupations<br />
(QCTO) policies, and various regulations,<br />
such as the Grant Regulations.<br />
Chieta Acting CEO, Kedibone Morane<br />
stated that the regional forum ‘is recognition<br />
that the<br />
Chemical Industries and education offered<br />
to learners needed to be impacted by the<br />
fourth industrial revolution’.<br />
This is necessary as new technology<br />
emerge, there is the need to prepare<br />
learners for future skills in the chemical<br />
sector’ said Morane<br />
The highlight of the session unpacked<br />
sstrategic plan for <strong>2018</strong>/19 ,research and<br />
skills update, grant window application<br />
guidelines, qqualifications development<br />
updates and best practice and<br />
optimization of efficiency for SETA.<br />
CHIETA has developed many interventions<br />
and mechanisms to address the skills<br />
needs of the industry and to overcome<br />
skills shortages. CHIETA interventions<br />
span the whole skills’ development<br />
pipeline.<br />
These include interventions at school<br />
level, support for TVET colleges,<br />
support for andco-operation with higher<br />
education and training institutions, artisan<br />
development .<br />
From the left :Princess Moumakoe, Thulani Shabala,<br />
Acting CEO Kedibone Morane, Jay Moodley and Rajen Naidoo<br />
In addition to support for small and<br />
micro enterprises and recognition of prior<br />
learning and PIVOTAL programmes which<br />
are necessary to address critical skills<br />
needs.<br />
While the Chieta 2015/2016 report<br />
indicates that in 2014/15 the petroleum<br />
subsector employed the largest<br />
contingent of workers in the chemical<br />
sector with more than 46,000. The second<br />
largest employer was the base chemicals<br />
subsector with just more than 16%,<br />
followed by the pharmaceuticals and<br />
speciality chemicals subsector (15%).<br />
In addition to the petroleum subsector<br />
employed between 44 000 and 47 000<br />
people. In all four years, Gauteng was<br />
the province with the largest number of<br />
employees – 45% in 2012, 42% in 2013<br />
and 41% in 2014 and 2015. This was<br />
followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 19% of<br />
employees in 2012, 16% in 2013, 17% in<br />
2014 and 19% in 2015.<br />
Employees in the chemical sector are<br />
highly qualified more so than in many<br />
other sectors.<br />
YOUTH CONNECT SUMMIT<br />
By : Anele S. Gumede & Zanele P.<br />
Mhlaka 21 kuya ku 22 kuMandulo <strong>2018</strong> kwasingathwa inkomfa yabantu<br />
abasha lapho abathola khona ithuba lokubonana ubuso no buso<br />
nosaziwo ababukela kubo ngenhloso yokwenza umyalezo ufinyelele<br />
kalula kubona. Loluhlelo lwaluphethwe ngusaziwayo ongumlingisi<br />
uNomzamo Mbatha. Losaziwayo usanda kuphothula izifundo ze<br />
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting.<br />
Lenkomfa yabantu abasha yayihanjelwe cishe ngabantu abasha abangu<br />
2500. Phakathi ko saziwayo ababeyingxenye yaloluhlelo singabala<br />
umculi u-Amanda Black, umlingisi uWArren Masemola kanye no AKA<br />
ukukha nje phezulu.<br />
Umculi u Amanda Black, unxuse abantu abasha ukuthi bazimisele<br />
kwabakwenzayo kodwa bengaphoqi ukwamukelwa ngento<br />
abangesiyona emphakathini.<br />
“Ngifisa ukunitshela ukuthi ningavumeli ukuzama ukuba into<br />
enibngesiyona. Ngisasemncane ngangibukela uhlelo luka mabonakude<br />
ama-Idols nomama wami, ngamxoxela ukuthi nginesifiso sokuba<br />
ingxenye yalo. Kwathi lapho sengiziqonda ukuthi ngingubani futhi<br />
sengiwuqonda nomsebenzi wami ngangenelela kuloluhlelo” kuqhuba<br />
lomculi owaba ngomunye wabathandwa kakhulu ngesikhathi engenele<br />
kololuhlelo.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
10 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES<br />
The lifetime chance to become<br />
an Accountapreneur<br />
The applications for the Cohort Civic Innovators 2019 are<br />
now officially open. The accountability lab programme is<br />
for young society leaders, it aims to build their effect tools<br />
for accountability, participation and also social impact. The<br />
selected “ accountapreneurs’ will go through a one year<br />
program with support for their initiatives and ideas.<br />
The program will accelerate ideas; provide mentorship,<br />
fundraising, management support and also the access<br />
to a global network of leading donors, foundations and<br />
institutions.<br />
Applicants Requirements:<br />
Be under the age of 35 at the time of the<br />
application.<br />
Be willing and able to commit to at least 3 days of<br />
training every 3 months in the capital city of the applicant’s<br />
country.<br />
Be a based in either Liberia, Mali, Pakistan or Nepal.<br />
Be committed to working on their work ideas for at least<br />
20 hours a week until it grows to the point where it is a full<br />
time commitment.<br />
Be energetic and willing to help build an emerging global<br />
eco-system for accountability.<br />
The applications are open until 21 October <strong>2018</strong> at<br />
midnight. For more information info@accountabilitylab.org<br />
The Commonwealth Secretary General’s<br />
Innovation for Sustainable Development<br />
Awards<br />
The awards celebrate outstanding innovators and<br />
innovations which are helping commonwealth countries<br />
along with their people to achieve Sustainable<br />
Development Goals ( SDG’s) and also increase their values<br />
in the Commonwealth Charter. The Commonwealth Charter<br />
commits commonwealth countries to the development of<br />
democratic societies and the promotion of prosperity and<br />
peace.<br />
Aims of the Awards:<br />
To recognise innovations that are boasting sustainable<br />
development in commonwealth countries while working in hand<br />
with the Common Wealth Charter and the SDGs.<br />
To inspire the next generation of commonwealth innovators.<br />
To put in the spotlight the innovative potential across<br />
commonwealth.<br />
The award –winning innovations must conform to the core values<br />
and principles of the Commonwealth Charter. Three award<br />
winners will be selected under five categories which are:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People<br />
Prosperity<br />
Peace<br />
Planet<br />
Partnership<br />
The winners will be decided based upon the potential of their<br />
innovations to advance one or preferably more 17 SDG’s in<br />
commonwealth countries.<br />
The awards will be decided on the factors of:<br />
Level of impact to demonstrate the potential of innovation.<br />
Real fresh ways to approach problem-solving.<br />
The quality of the achievement.<br />
The potential impact of innovation on achievement of SDGs in<br />
commonwealth countries.<br />
The entry criteria - Entrants must be:<br />
commonwealth citizens- female and young commonwealth<br />
innovators.<br />
government ministries, department or public sector agencies in<br />
commonwealth countries.<br />
private sector enterprises based in any commonwealth country.<br />
social or voluntary sector enterprise based in any common<br />
wealth country.<br />
Nominees must have engaged in developing their innovations<br />
for more than 12 months.<br />
Award winners must agree to take part in commonwealth<br />
supported activities.<br />
Each nominee is liberated to enter submissions of up two of the<br />
five categories. The nomination process will only be done on the<br />
online platform. The deadline for the nominations is 31 December<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Techstars Music Accelerator<br />
Techs tars Music Accelerator<br />
Techstars is a music accelerator which is led and ran by the<br />
most leading companies from the global music business<br />
from Warner Music Group, Sony, Silva Entertainment,<br />
QPrime Management, Silva Artist Management, Royalty<br />
Exchange, Avex Inc, RecoChoku and Concord Music.<br />
They invest $120 k into 10 of the best music-related<br />
start-ups from around the world. While also providing office<br />
space in LA and access to mentors and investors from the<br />
global music business industry.<br />
Techstars music start-ups are mentored by more than 100<br />
of the top music and technology executives and investors<br />
in the world. They make entrepreneurship accessible by<br />
giving guidance, marketing, M&A opportunities, capital and<br />
customer acquisition. The Techstars Music team includes<br />
Jen Hall (Director, Music), Bob Moczydlowsky (Managing<br />
Director, Music) and Samantha Russo 9 Program Manager,<br />
Music).<br />
The applications are now open, the application deadline is<br />
14 October <strong>2018</strong>, the programme kick starts on<br />
04 February 2019 and the demo day is on the 2019.<br />
Total Startupper Challenge<br />
The Startupper of the year is by Total Challenge. It aims to<br />
encourage social entrepreneurship and to also help under<br />
35-year-olds to develop their entrepreneurial skills.<br />
The challenge supports projects that will help to address<br />
problems affecting communities in countries. From<br />
reducing child mortality, improving public health, improving<br />
road safety, building eco-friendly houses, proving<br />
educational opportunities, possibly anything that can<br />
improve lives.<br />
The previous challenges have been a success, it begun in<br />
2015-2016 by involving 34 African countries. The <strong>2018</strong>-<br />
2019 challenge has been extended to 55 countries around<br />
the world. Three winners from each country will receive<br />
comprehensive publicity, coaching and financial support.<br />
Among the three winners from each country, grand winners<br />
will be then selected by each region and the winners will be<br />
offered additional support.<br />
In this year’s challenge a Top female Entrepreneur category<br />
has been introduced and included. During the previous<br />
challenges women only made 25% of the winners and<br />
they only accumulated only 13% as part of the applicants.<br />
With these year’s special award the aim is in hope to give<br />
women entrepreneurs extra encouragement to take part in<br />
the challenge.<br />
Selection Criteria:<br />
• The business owner must not be older than 35 years old.<br />
• The participant must be a citizen of the country where he/<br />
she participates.<br />
• The project can be an idea or a start-up created within<br />
the last two years.<br />
• The project should aim to offer a practical way of<br />
improving and addressing safety, accessibility, education<br />
and other issues affecting the local communities.<br />
• The project can be something that can improve existing<br />
technology, service or product.<br />
• The projects should have the potential to benefit a<br />
broader public sphere.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
11 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES<br />
#DIETChangeNotClimateChange Writing Competition <strong>2018</strong><br />
You can join the #DietChangeNotClimateChange writing completion<br />
and win a spot that is partially founded to the Convention on Biological<br />
Diversity negotiations in Egypt.<br />
Climate tracker is looking for young writers from around the world<br />
who want to make a huge impact in their countries, writing about the<br />
effects of climate change and also meat consumption. There are many<br />
factors that lead to human-caused climate change such as dairy,<br />
egg production , soil erosion , water pollution and also the decrease<br />
in biodiversity. According to a study conducted by FAO farm animals<br />
contribute 14.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions. Overall the top 20<br />
meat and dairy corporations produce more greenhouse gas emissions.<br />
Evidence states that high plant based foods and lower animal products<br />
are less damaging to the climate. For instance producing 1 kg of beef<br />
releases about 16 kg of carbon dioxide into the environment, while<br />
producing 1 kg of tofu released only about 1 kg of carbon dioxide.<br />
Replacing beef with beans would free up to 42% of farmland that would<br />
achieve 75% of 2020’s climate goal and provide more sufficient dietary<br />
protein.<br />
The 2 best winners of the writing competition will get a chance to<br />
attend the Convention on Biological Diversity Negotiations in Egypt in<br />
November <strong>2018</strong>. Through the negotiations they will receive training on<br />
environmental biodiversity and journalism by Climate Tracker. They will<br />
also get to meet amazing people from everywhere in the world.<br />
The 2 week accommodation in Egypt will be covered by Climate<br />
Tracker. If you want to make a difference between the 17th of September<br />
and the 12th of October you have to write an article about “effects of<br />
meat consumption on climate change and what needs to change in your<br />
country”. Afterwards you have to publish the article in a media of your<br />
own country. It can be a magazine, newspaper or an online news site.<br />
Once the article is published you have to submit the link through the<br />
app.<br />
To get more help regarding climate issues, Climate Tracker will prepare<br />
information toolkits, webinars with experts and give help and intense<br />
feedback on how to pitch to editors, to get an article published or how to<br />
learn about climate change in your region.<br />
Climate Tracker will then revise the articles submitted through the app,<br />
give feedback tips and select the best writers. The 2 best writers will get<br />
a partially funded fellowship to Egypt to the Convention on Biological<br />
Diversity meeting.<br />
<strong>2018</strong> Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship<br />
The youth Citizen entrepreneurship Competition is a programme that<br />
influences and empowers young entrepreneurs to make a difference and<br />
create a sustainable world.<br />
Young entrepreneurs from the age of 15-35 are given this platform to<br />
engage in a more peaceful world. The participating individuals are<br />
encouraged and invited to submit their innovative ideas and projects<br />
that have a societal impact which implement the 17 Sustainable<br />
Development Goals ( SDG’S). The SDG’s target and address the most<br />
significant social, economic, health , health and governance challenges<br />
of our time.<br />
The requirements are Be between the ages of 15 and 35, have an<br />
innovative idea for an enterprise which contributes to the sustainable<br />
Development Goals ( SDG’s) or have an operating enterprise in the form<br />
of a business, informal program or a non-profit organisation. Entries must<br />
be submitted in English.<br />
The prizes and recognition include:<br />
- Grand Prize , 2nd place and people’s choice prize winners<br />
will be selected in the following categories :<br />
- Best Ideas Category :<br />
• Innovative ideas and plans to be implemented by the one entering or<br />
others.<br />
• Already existing enter price which has demonstrated a social impact.<br />
- Grand prize winners and the people’s choice will receive a virtual Gold<br />
Badge and a Certificate.<br />
- Finalists chosen as prize winners will receive an Honourable Mention<br />
Badge.<br />
- Entrepreneurship Campus Prize winners will receive a Campus Prize<br />
Winner Badge.<br />
- Grand Prize , People’s Choice winners, second prize, third prize and<br />
the entrepreneurship campus winners will be made public at the Winners<br />
Announcement Ceremony at the Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin on<br />
October <strong>2018</strong><br />
A chance of a lifetime ( Procter and Gamble CEO Challenge<br />
<strong>2018</strong> - International Multi Level Case Study Competition)<br />
This is a competition which tests for business strategies and also<br />
problem solving. If one is eager to demonstrate their intelligence this is<br />
the right opportunity and platform.<br />
The individuals entering the competition must prepare themselves to<br />
compete from around the world in order to see who’s fit to be the next<br />
CEO of P&G. The chosen top students will attend the Global Final in<br />
Dubai and win the opportunity to meet P&G CEO, David Taylor. They<br />
must first prepare to show their ability to work and think critically and<br />
about leading the brand.<br />
The benefits of the competition run abroad and they include:<br />
- A win all expenses paid trip to the location of the Regional Finals in<br />
Dubai and compete in the Global Final.<br />
- Meet students from all around the world and network.<br />
- Official winners will be invited to the Signal Event at Cincinati<br />
headquarters. Also join the executives, funders and industry distributors.<br />
- P&G will pay for the travel accommodations.<br />
- The team who wins the Global Final in Dubai will have to join the P&G<br />
signal Conference in 2019 and meet David Taylor (CEO).<br />
The participating teams will be sent on a 7 day prior start competitions.<br />
They will spend the entire week preparing themselves, they are<br />
expected to arrive in Johannesburg in January 2019 before the welcome<br />
Reception in the evening.<br />
How the completion works :<br />
- Gather your crew that has diverse backgrounds and sign up.<br />
- Rock the online case study and win the national round.<br />
- Take on the top performers from your region<br />
- Earn a spot in the global Final in Dubai.<br />
- Win and meet with the CEO’s from the biggest companies at P&G<br />
Signal Conference 2019.<br />
The regional finals will take place at P&G headquarters in Johannesburg,<br />
South Africa. The winning teams from each campus will be chosen<br />
based on the score they achieved on an online platform. They also be<br />
contacted after the first round has been closed ( 7 December <strong>2018</strong>).<br />
P&G will reach out to the team leader using the email or phone number<br />
that is provided. The top teams of each country will be provided travel<br />
and lodging for the Regional Finals in John. South Africa. The winning<br />
team from the Regional Finals will travel to Dubai from the 3rd week of<br />
May.<br />
Global Social Venture Competition 2019 for high<br />
impact entrepreneurs.( USD $ 80, 000 Prize)<br />
The global Social Venture competition leads teams through an<br />
experiential learning process to develop innovative, scalable<br />
solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. The competition works<br />
through global network of 14 partner schools and competitions, they<br />
also go about giving the various teams connections, support and<br />
exposure needed to advance their social ventures.<br />
Each of the competition’s three rounds also asks teams to build<br />
on past learning’s focus on distinct emphasis areas. A team’s<br />
ability to demonstrate progress in these areas will be an important<br />
determinant of its venture’s overall score, which in every round is<br />
evaluated on business potential and the like hood of success.<br />
Eligibility Requirements for Ventures<br />
• submitted ventures should aim to be :<br />
Financially sustainable or profitable, whether it is a for profit, nonprofit<br />
or hybrid businesses models, your venture must aim to be<br />
self-sufficient on earned revenue.<br />
• Ventures should include a technology component whether a<br />
technology based solution or a technology component is utilised<br />
to address the solution. In this instance technology is defined very<br />
broadly. Eligible ventures should include products and services<br />
developed from the application of scientific knowledge. This may<br />
involve software hardware as well as other devices and products.<br />
The technology can be manifest in the product or itself or be the way<br />
in which the product or service is delivered.<br />
• Submitted ventures should be scalable long term. This criterion<br />
will mean different things for each business. Scalability will take into<br />
account the potential for growth of the business for both social and<br />
financial impacts.<br />
• The entry must include a financial analysis and also a Social Impact<br />
Assessment (SIA), which includes the Social Value Proposition and<br />
Social Indicators.<br />
• Ventures that are submitted must be less than 2 years old, with<br />
the start of the venture marked by the first income or incorporation it<br />
depends which one happened first as of 31 December <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
• Submitted ventures must not have received more than $ 250, 000<br />
in funding from venture capital, private investors, loans, grants as of<br />
31 December <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
• As of 31 December <strong>2018</strong> the lifetime revenue should not exceed $<br />
500,000.<br />
• GSVC has the sole right to investigate qualifications and funding of<br />
ventures to make sure that they truly stage.<br />
The prizes include:<br />
• First place Award - $40, 000<br />
• Second Place Award- $25,000<br />
• Third Place Award -$10,000<br />
• Priya Haji Memorial Award - $2,500<br />
• People’s Choice Award - $1,500<br />
• Quick Pitch Award - $1,000<br />
The timeline of the competition runs abroad for the Round One<br />
Requirements applications close on 3 December <strong>2018</strong>. The regional<br />
Round Requirements –close on February-March 2019. Global Final<br />
Requirements on 3-5 April 2019.<br />
International Multi Level Case Study<br />
Competition- fully funded trips to Johannesburg<br />
and Dubai<br />
The P&G CEO competition will test the ability for problem solving and<br />
also real –life solving problems. If you are an individual who is keen to<br />
demonstrate your intelligence beyond your own campus the P&G is the<br />
right platform and huge opportunity to make a possible impression on a<br />
global scale.<br />
One must be prepared to compete with various teams from around<br />
the world in order to see who is the most fit and eligible individual who<br />
can take the place of being the next CEO of P&G. Top students will be<br />
required to attend the Global Final in Dubai and also win the opportunity<br />
to meet with the current CEO of P&G David Taylor. The students must<br />
firstly prepare themselves to showcase the extent of their ability of<br />
thinking critically about leading brand Gillette.<br />
The benefits of the competition include:<br />
Winning an all expenses paid trip to the Regional Finals in Dubai and<br />
to compete in the Global Final.<br />
Network with leaders from P&G and also meet students from around<br />
the world.<br />
The official winners of the competition will be invited to the signal event<br />
at the Cicinati Headquarters. Join founders, executives and industry<br />
distributors at the most exciting event of the year.<br />
P&G will pay for the accommodation and travel expenses for all the<br />
team members to the both Regional and Global Final.<br />
The team that wins the Global Final in Dubai will have the utmost<br />
privilege to join the P&G signal conference 2019 in Cicinati and meet our<br />
CEO, David Taylor.<br />
The Regional Challenge Case will be sent to participating teams<br />
one week before the start of the competition. Teams will be given an<br />
entire to densely prepare themselves. Teams are expected to arrive in<br />
Johannesburg in January before the Welcome Receptions begins in the<br />
evening.<br />
How it all works:<br />
Gather your crew with diverse backgrounds and sign up.<br />
Rock the online case study and win the national round.<br />
Take on the top performers from your region.<br />
Earn your spot in the global final in Dubai.<br />
Win & meet with the CEO’s from the biggest companies at P&G Signal<br />
conference in 2019.<br />
Where the Regional Finals will take place?<br />
It will take place at the P&G Headquarters in Johannesburg, South<br />
Africa.<br />
Selection Criteria:<br />
The winning team from each campus will be chosen entirely based<br />
on the score they achieve in the online stage. Teams will be contacted<br />
within a week after the online round has closed by 7 December <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
P&G will reach out to the team leader using the email or phone<br />
number provided. Top teams from each school will be contacted in the<br />
weeks leading up to their live competition in November <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The top teams from each country will be provided travel and lodging<br />
for the Regional Finals at Johannesburg, South Africa.<br />
The winning team from the Regional Finals will travel to Dubai for the<br />
Global finals during the 3rd week of May.<br />
The timeline is as follows:<br />
National Finals- November <strong>2018</strong><br />
IMEA Regional Finals in South Africa- January 2019<br />
Global Finals in Dubai, UAE – May 20-24 2019.<br />
Application deadline- January 2019.<br />
If you require more information visit the official Webpage of the Procter<br />
and Gamble CEO challenge <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
issue no. 23<br />
<strong>OCTOBER</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
12 smme news the heartbeat of small enterprises<br />
The 48 Hour Film Project<br />
By : Zanele P. Ndimande<br />
The rush and the non-ending adrenalin<br />
of the 48 hour film project has hit yet<br />
again and will be coming to the city<br />
of Durban on the weekend of 23-25<br />
November <strong>2018</strong>. With eight years in<br />
running there has never been less vigour<br />
and sparkles when it comes to making a<br />
short film in just 48 hours and having it<br />
viewed by many on the big screen.<br />
The 48 hour film project is an<br />
international film competition where<br />
people can enter in teams and make<br />
a movie in 48 hours. The project<br />
has circulated around South African<br />
provinces from Gauteng to Cape Town<br />
and now Durban gives filmmakers the<br />
chance to show what they have and<br />
impress their family, friends, colleagues<br />
and other filmmakers.<br />
Anyone can enter the competition and<br />
there is no age limit. Professionals,<br />
amateurs and students are encouraged<br />
to enter bringing only their enthusiasm,<br />
passion and skills as their driving<br />
force. Entrants use the equipment<br />
they have, and they don’t need any<br />
high-tech equipment. The organisers<br />
encourage entrants who don’t have<br />
access to professional equipment to use<br />
mobile devices to shoot and edit their<br />
films. The 48 hour is an opportunity for<br />
filmmakers and film enthusiasts of all<br />
levels to practice and showcase their<br />
craft. New entrants are invited to free<br />
workshops where they get to learn about<br />
storytelling, scriptwriting and producing<br />
for the 48 Hour Film Project.<br />
Industry leading professionals facilitate these<br />
workshops which takes place the 2 weekends<br />
before the filming event weekend, which is 23<br />
to 25 November <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
There is a lot of raw and authentic talent in<br />
South Africa that is to be discovered and<br />
moulded. But the reality is that many individuals<br />
would like to enter the competition, but money<br />
is tight , so the organisers try to raise funds to<br />
sponsor some of those who wish to enter but<br />
don’t have the money to.<br />
An early bird fee of R1500 is required for all<br />
entering teams, the regular fee is R1600 and<br />
late-comer which applies 2 weeks before the<br />
event, is R1800 per team. Local organisers,<br />
Combined Skills Group, has partnered along<br />
with many sponsors to discover talent while<br />
making the project a success from the likes of<br />
Ster-Kinekor, Canon SA, Media Film Service,<br />
Mindset TV, SACIA, FilmContact and others.<br />
“South Africa has amazing talent and we are<br />
pleasantly surprised with the entries year on<br />
year. We’ve also seen an increase in female<br />
entrants, and they do tend to steal the show<br />
when it comes to producing and writing. African<br />
talent needs good mentors and opportunities<br />
like the 48 Hour Film Project to help filmmakers<br />
get exposure. In Johannesburg we have a<br />
young filmmaker, Timothy Drew, who entered<br />
his first 48 Hour at the age of 11 years. He’s<br />
now a film student in college and continues to<br />
enter every year, winning awards frequently.<br />
This year, <strong>2018</strong>, he won Best Student entry in<br />
Johannesburg, when it was announced at the<br />
Awards ceremony on 21 October.<br />
“Timothy loves the rush of the 48”, says Natalie<br />
Delport, Managing Director of Combined Skills<br />
Group, Durban Co-City Producer of the 48 Hour<br />
Film Project.<br />
She works alongside many students, amateurs<br />
and professionals on the 48 Hour Film Project<br />
and says that she is inspired by the real<br />
talent that’s alive and living in South African<br />
townships, the rush of talent tells it all, the<br />
feel and the impersonation of emotion tells a<br />
thousand stories.<br />
With the 48 Hour She works along with<br />
Durban Co-City Producer and Imbewu the<br />
Seed, scriptwriter, Ben Johnson and assistant<br />
producer Nerusha Maharaj, as they are both<br />
set to take the reigns for the event in Durban as<br />
Natalie is mostly based in Gauteng and travels<br />
to Durban when required to mentor these two.<br />
Prior to the event weekend, the filmmakers<br />
have no information about the genres for<br />
the films. They find this out when they pick 2<br />
genres at the kick-off on Friday night. Followed<br />
by the drawing, filmmakers are given a<br />
character name, profession, a line, and a prop.<br />
They then set off to make their film in only 48<br />
hours – and deliver their film on the Sunday,<br />
exactly 48-hours later. Only films delivered<br />
within the 48-hour time are eligible for the<br />
official Awards, but all film entries delivered by<br />
Sunday, midnight, will be screened on the big<br />
screen at the Ster-Kinekor Musgrave centre.<br />
The 48HFP Awards will be held on 9 December<br />
2019, venue and logistics will be posted on<br />
the official website closer to the time – and all<br />
teams are invited to the Awards, whether they<br />
made it or now.<br />
The winning film per city will be sent to<br />
Filmapalooza in the USA to compete<br />
with films from around the world.<br />
The winning film crowned the best<br />
international film will open the Cannes<br />
Film Festival 2019, and the 48 Hour<br />
global organiser and judges select<br />
10 films from around the world to be<br />
screened at the Cannes Short Film<br />
corner.<br />
Co-City Producer of the Durban 48 Hour<br />
Film Project, Ben Johnson Jr, believes<br />
in real passion and authentic talent for<br />
filmmaking, as South Africa has a lot<br />
of undiscovered talent, “Everyone has<br />
a different story, my background is<br />
Human Resources. I left it and people<br />
thought I was crazy, I found my passion<br />
very late. I‘m actually a creative but I<br />
followed what I thought was a regular<br />
job just like everybody else.<br />
When you come into the film industry<br />
you’re asked a question about your<br />
education in the field. What matters for<br />
me is showing that you have a skill of<br />
being able to do something. If you come<br />
to for help with a project, I will not ask<br />
which University you went to. I believe<br />
that ‘like’ passions attract each other,<br />
eventually you end up in the same<br />
circle of people that you share the same<br />
beliefs with”.<br />
For more information and to register<br />
a team, go to www.48hourfilm.com/<br />
Johannesburg<br />
Utusa ukuzinikela noku sebenza<br />
kanzima usomabhizinisi<br />
osemncane<br />
By : Zanele P. Ndimande<br />
Ukungaqhubeki nokuyofunda<br />
ngemuva kokuphothula izifundo zika<br />
matikuletsheni kanye mokubhekana<br />
nezinkinga ekuqaleni kwebhizinisi<br />
lakhe akuzange kumvimbe<br />
usomabhizinisi osemncane<br />
ukuhubha amaphupho ache<br />
nokushintsha impilo yakhe.<br />
Lowo ke ngu msunguli nomphathi we<br />
Horse power Clothing, uMnu. Sandile<br />
‘Kzer’ Mvubu ungowokuzalwa<br />
endaweni ya KwaZwelibomvu<br />
eRichmond bude buduze nedolobha<br />
lase Thekwini.<br />
Losomabhizinisi osemncane<br />
waphothula izifundo zakhe zika<br />
matikuletsheni ngowezi-2014.<br />
Ukuphothula izifundo kuka Mvubu<br />
akulandelwanga ukuya enyuvesi<br />
njengokujwayelekile kwabanye<br />
ontanga yakhe kepha waba,<br />
nenhlahla yokuhlangana nomunye<br />
usomabhizinisi owamholela endleleni<br />
yokuba naye asungule elakhe<br />
ibhizinisi. Ngonyakia ka 2016<br />
izinhlahla zika Mvubu zashintsha<br />
lapho ehlangana khona no Sibusiso<br />
Nene ongumsunguli we Ancient G,<br />
owamkhulisa emfundisa nezindlela<br />
zokugcina ibhizinisi lisezingeni<br />
elifanelekile.<br />
Ngemuva kokuqiniswa amadolo<br />
ngabantu abahlukene kule ndima<br />
yemfashini, uMvubu ngo nyaka<br />
ka 2017 wabe esethula eyakhe<br />
inkampani i-Horse Power Clothing<br />
Label, ezinze eBerea Station,<br />
enkabeni yedolobha eThekwini.<br />
Ngokuso kwalo somabhizinisi,<br />
izingubo zakhe ezesimanje manje<br />
futhizilungele ukugqokwa ibona bonke<br />
abantu abasha kanye nabadala,<br />
ngaphandle nje kwalokho futhi<br />
inezimpawu zokukhula ibalwe kanye<br />
nezinye ezihlonishwayo kuleli.<br />
“Njengo msunguli webhizinisi,<br />
nginesifiso sokulikhulisa ngibe<br />
namagantsha emadolobheni amaningi.<br />
Angihlosile ukugxila kwezemfashini<br />
kuphela.<br />
Ngyafisa nokungena ebhizinisini loku<br />
singatha imicimbi Kanye nokuhlinzeka<br />
ngokudla nezindawo zokuhlala”<br />
Kubeka uMvubu ngaphambi<br />
kokwengeza ngokuthi ukuzimisela<br />
nokusebenza kanzima kudlale indima<br />
enkulu ekukhuleni kwakhe.<br />
Phakathi kwezingqinamba<br />
losomabhizinisi athi usebhekane<br />
nazo kulendima singabalula ukuntula<br />
indawo elungele ukusebenzela<br />
kuyo kodwa wagcizelela ukuthi<br />
ukuphokophela nokusebenza kanzima<br />
kwenza izinkinga ziye ngokuncipha.<br />
“Eminyakeni emihlanu ezayo<br />
nginesifiso sokuhlangana nabanye<br />
osomabhizinisi endimeni efanayo<br />
nalena engikuyo abanomqondo<br />
nezifiso ezifana nezami. Sifukulane<br />
ukungenela kuwona wonke amakhona<br />
eNingizimu Afrika. Lendima esikuyo<br />
idinga abantu abangesabi ukuzinikela<br />
ngakho konke abanakho” kuphetha<br />
uMvubu ngesifundo kwabanye<br />
osomabhizinisi abafisa ukungena<br />
kulendima.<br />
ETHEKWINI<br />
Durban Central<br />
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SAPS<br />
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-UNISA<br />
-UKZN Howard<br />
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Street<br />
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Durban North<br />
<strong>SMME</strong> News Distribution List<br />
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-Pinetown Library<br />
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Durban South<br />
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-Bridge City Spar<br />
-Mega City Spar<br />
-Kwanyandu<br />
-Chatsworth Centre Shoprite<br />
-Wentworth Bluff Towers<br />
Checkers<br />
-Montclair Shoprite & Pick<br />
n Pay<br />
-MUT (Umlazi)<br />
-Albert Luthuli Hospital<br />
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- Shoprite Umlazi V<br />
- Boxer Umlazi Station<br />
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- Rossburgh Southway mall<br />
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ILEMBE DISTRICT<br />
Maphumulo<br />
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-Lucky Family Supermarket<br />
-KwaJim Shop<br />
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-Maphumulo Municipality<br />
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Ndwedwe<br />
- Ndwedwe Cash and Carry<br />
-Ndwedwe Municipality<br />
-Bamshela Shopping Center<br />
-Library<br />
KwaDukuza<br />
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-ILembe Municipality<br />
-NYDA (stanger)<br />
-Stanger CBD Mall<br />
-Ballito Spar Lifestyle<br />
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-Ballito Bay Checkers<br />
-Usave<br />
-Boxer<br />
-Stanger Taxi rank<br />
-Dawnside Cafe<br />
-Residentia café<br />
-Mini market<br />
-Eugene Garage<br />
-Revite Shop<br />
-Ilembe Chamber of Commerce<br />
and Tourism<br />
-Total garage<br />
-Mandeni Municipality<br />
-Spar<br />
-Spar(Squmba)<br />
-Shoprite (OK)<br />
-Shoprite<br />
-BP garage<br />
-Ikhwezi Spar<br />
-KwaSithebe Sasol<br />
PIETERMARITZBURG<br />
-Dpt of Education<br />
-CBD Taxi Rank<br />
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-Library<br />
-SAPS (Loop Street)<br />
-YMCA<br />
-Scottsville Mall<br />
-Liberty Midlands Mall<br />
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-UKZN School of Management<br />
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-Dpt of Home Affairs<br />
-Chamber of Commerce<br />
-Superspar Camperdown<br />
- BP Garage Scottsville<br />
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-Alexander SAPS<br />
-Imbalenhle Clinic (Mbali)<br />
- Edendale Hospital<br />
- Doris Goodwin TB Clinic<br />
- Shoprite Edendale Mall<br />
- Pick n Pay Edendale<br />
UGU DISTRICT<br />
-CBD Shoprite<br />
-Marburg Bargains Wholesalers<br />
-Smart Xchange<br />
-Chamber of Commerce<br />
-Mthwoluwe Bargains<br />
-Gamelakhe Library<br />
-Parkrynie Engen Garage<br />
-Umzinto Boxer<br />
-Port Edward Spar<br />
-Margate<br />
-Municipalities<br />
- Boxer Gamalakhe<br />
- Hibberdene Spar<br />
- Pick n Pay Uribi Spaza<br />
- Municipality<br />
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