Limpopo Small Business Summit 2011

Participants 2010

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The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa has been the leading agricultural financier in South Africa since its inception 1912. Land Bank offers tailor made financial services to established and emerging farmers.

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Anglo American Zimele-Great strides

Anglo American’s enterprise development arm, Anglo American Zimele, has made great strides towards economic development since its inception over 21 years ago.

Zimele aims to bring about sustainable Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) through the creation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This is achieved through developing and nurturing commercially viable and economically sustainable businesses, and through capacity building and funding these businesses, whilst providing extensive support, mentorship and guidance.

Zimele consists of four funds which provide support to intended recipients. These funds are the Supply Chain Fund, the Anglo American Khula Mining Fund, the Communities Fund, and the Olwazini Fund.

The Supply Chain Fund fulfils the purpose of identifying and developing companies in order for them to have access to Anglo American procurement spend opportunities. Recipients are granted a R5 million equity limit per transaction which is leveraged with debt. They are also afforded the opportunity to leverage off the well established Anglo American Zimele name and affiliations.

The Anglo American Khula Mining Fund assists junior scale mining ventures with equity and loan financing. Funding projects up to R20 million, the Fund currently has 10 investments, including Zingaro Trade and African Nickel. Notably, its main area of funding is with ‘high risk’ and prospecting phases, up until the completion of a bankable feasibility study.

The Communities Fund provides entrepreneurs with funds and support around Anglo American operations and labour sending areas. These entrepreneurs, who must be from the local community, have sustainable businesses that are not necessarily dependent on the mining industry, and incur a 6% p.a. interest on their loans. Crucial assistance is provided in the shape of loan funding, business plans, business skills transfer, mentoring and support.

The Olwazini Fund provides entrepreneurial and skills training and development to BEE youth, women, and the disabled in Anglo American’s mining communities, with the ultimate goal of creating jobs, entrepreneurs, and alleviating poverty. Entrepreneurship is promoted through business funding to qualifying individuals, and a training programme for the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level 2 accredited qualification, designed for new venture creation.

Exhibitors

Click on the logo to visit the official website of MTN Business.

The National Development Agency (NDA) is a section 3A statutory organisation, which was established by the National Development Agency Act (Act No. 108 of 1998) in November 1998.

The NDA is a public entity listed under schedule 3A of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and reports to the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa through the Minister for Social Development.

Click on the logo to visit the official website of the Limpopo provincial government.

Our mission is to provide an integrated tourism and biodiversity conservation management system in order to stimulate sustainable economic growth for the province.

The Department of Economic Development, Environment & Tourism has a strategic mandate to help promote economic development and growth in the province. This implies that the Department is playing a leadership role in the efforts aimed at creating work and fighting poverty from food security to real economic growth. For this to happen the Department has crafted a Strategic and Annual Perfomance Plan that has specific and results oriented economic interventions that are also in line with its overall organizational vision and mission.

The Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency was formed in terms of the MEGA Act (Act No. 4 of 2005) through a merger of the Mpumalanga Economic Empowerment Corporation and Mpumalanga Investment Initiative. The Act was promulgated in phases to facilitate a smooth transition to the new legal entity. MEGA became fully operational, and commenced its business activities, on April 1st, 2006. MEGA is accountable to the Mpumalanga Department of Economic Development and Planning.

UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations, dedicated to advancing women’s rights and achieving gender equality. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that foster women's empowerment. UNIFEM works on the premise that it is the fundamental right of every woman to live a life free from discrimination and violence, and that gender equality is essential to achieving development and to building just societies.

Buyisa-e-Bag is a Section 21 company that aims to encourage the collection, re-use and recycling of plastic shopping bags that are discarded in the waste stream, as well as making provision for the collection of litter from environmentally sensitive areas, including rural areas, tourist areas, low and high density socio-economic urban areas.

Basotho Enterprises Development Corporation (BEDCO) is a parastatal of the Lesotho Government. It started its operations in 1975 as the subsidiary company of Lesotho National Developments Corporation (LNDC). It was established as a parastatal in 1980 by an ACT of Parliament, ACT NO.9 of 1980 as amended.

Indwe Risk Services is a product of the 2006 merger between South Africa's premier insurance brokerages - Thebe Risk Services & Prestasi Brokers. Thebe Risk Services was the evolution of what began in 1903 as Hoskens Insurance. In 1992, it became the insurance arm of Thebe Investment Corporation, the country's oldest black empowered financial institution. It's focus was primarily on the insurance needs of corporations.
It became a fully empowered organisation when Pamodzi Investment Holdings bought a controlling stake in April 2001. Today, Indwe Risk Services represents more than 120 000 individual, commercial and corporate clients.

LimDev is a social and economic development Enterprise, operating within the Limpopo Province.

Kashona Publisers

Kashona Publishers (Pty) Ltd is a Namibian enterprise that was established on 1st of September 2007 by a young dynamic entrepreneur Mickal Ngayozikwe Tjituka with the aim to provide publishing services and other marketing related services in a informative manner that concern SMEs who would otherwise have difficulty accessing such services.

tpn training

TPN Training and Recruitment cc was established and registered in 2001 by Ms Teboho Ntsihlele. It is an HDI (100% black female) owned company. TPN Training and Recruitment cc is accredited by Forest Industry Sector Education and Training Authority (FIETA) as its primary SETA.

In addition TPN Training and Recruitment cc is also accredited by the following SETAs:

Information Systems Electronics and Telecommunication Technologies SETA (ISETT)
Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA)

Agriculture SETA (Agric SETA).

TPN Training and Recruitment cc is operating from its offices in Gauteng and Limpopo.

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Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Corporate Development

Media Partners

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