“Dedicated to shaping the state of the townships and rural ... · 3 eKasi Social Innovation Challenge * 2 R272 504.00 4 eKasi Entrepreneurship Conference R835 475 .00 5 eKasi Business

“Dedicated to shaping the state of the townships and rural areas in South Africa”

“The significant participation and meaningful inclusion of the people of the township into mainstream economy of Gauteng through their own township enterprises that are supported by the government and big business will be one of the key game changers...The townships

must be self sufficient and vibrant economic centres.”

Premier David Makhura, State of the Province Address (June 2014)

Contents

✓About us

✓Our Values

✓Our Team

✓IMPACTFUL Projects and objectives

✓How are we sustainable?

✓Target Market and location

✓Credentials

✓Costs

✓Partnerships

✓Contacts

INSPIRE I EXPLORE I ACCESS I INNOVATE I SHAPE

About us

✓Who are we

○ Non Profit Company focused on developing townships entrepreneurs. Founded in 2012 September and

incorporated in 2013 May

✓Vision

○ Create projects and platforms that give township entrepreneurs access to information, mentorship, funding,

Training and development etc to run their businesses

✓Mission

○ Expose entrepreneurs to profitable opportunities

○ Create platforms that provide access to information, resources, mentorship and funding

✓Why we do it - Problems we are solving

○ Alleviate youth unemployment

○ Developing the countries’ needs for entrepreneurs

○ Lack of economic hubs in township areas that force people to seek jobs in urban areas

○ Lack of jobs in South africa

Our Values

❏ Community Business

❏ Developing Youth

❏ Innovation

❏ Accessibility

❏ Opportunities

Our Team - Executive Directors

Mr Elvis Sekhaolelo, Founding Executive Director

Mrs Tlotlo Kolwane, Founding Non-Executive Director

Mr Pheeha Machaka, Founding Non-Executive Director

Pending - CFO, Pro bono Financial Services Pending (Board of Advisor)

Mr Sello Alcock - Pro bono Legal services from Bowman Gilfillan (Board of Advisors)

Our Team - Board of Advisors

Mr Vusi Thembekwayo - Dragon’s Den, Motivational Speaker

Ms Busi Raphekwane - Senior Business Mentor and service offering, The Hope Factory

Mr Tshepo Phakathi, CEO of Phakathi Holdings

Mr Solomon Lephoto, Geophysicist

Ms Lebo Mokgabudi, Mobile Payment expert, VISA ex-Director, Emerging Markets Digital, Pamodzi Holdings non-exec director

Mr Garth Japhet, Founder of Heartlines

Ms Chimene Chetty, Director - Center for Entrepreneurship at Wits Business School

(In that order)

Our focus

• Provide tools to efficiently run a business; accounting; tax; legal

• Incentive to develop businesses that solve practical problems in communities

• Access to funders and funding

• Pitching workshops

• Access to a network of entrepreneurs

• Inspiration and Motivation

Conference and Business Expo

Funding Platforms

Training and Workshops

Social Innovation Challenges

Challenges faced by the provinceReference : GAUTENG TOWNSHIP ECONOMY REVITALISATION STRATEGY

● Lack of business hubs or operational space in township areas

OVERALL PROJECTS

◼ IMPACT PROJECTS

▪ eKasi Business Hubs

▪ ACCESS

▪ eKasi Entrepreneurs Academy

◼ YEARLY EVENTS and ACTIVITIES

▪ eKasi Social Innovation Challenge

▪ eKasi Entrepreneurship Conference and Business EXPO

▪ eKasi Business EXPOs

◼ MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORMS

▪ eKasi Entrepreneurs Online Magazine

▪ eKasi Entrepreneurs TV Programme

IMPACTFUL PROJECTS

eKasi Business Hubs

Area Hammanskraal Soweto Tsakane

Municipality Tshwane Municipality Johannesburg Municipality Ekurhuleni Municipality

HUB Focus 2016 - Manufacturing 2015 - Manufacturing, Information Technology and

Professional Services

2016 - Professional Services

eKasi Academy Yes Yes Yes

eKasi EXPO Yes Yes Yes

eKasi Conference Yes NO NO

ACCESS Opportunities

Yes Yes Yes

◼ eKasi Business Hub will cater for business in the townships for operational space

◼ We will Identify specific city properties to renovate and make use of

◼ Entrepreneurs will rent spaces and receive services tabled in the next slide

ACCESS to opportunitiesActivities offered from the Business Hub

◼ Direct Mentorship - A group of MBA students from Wits Business School to work on entrepreneurs’

businesses

◼ ACCESS to pro bono services

▪ Legal from Bowman Gilfillan

▪ Funding and vouchers from NYDA and SEDA

▪ Exclusive Marketing Campaign of their businesses

▪ BBBEE Certificate, Annual Financial Statements, Tax Clearance Certificate

▪ ACCESS to specific industry exhibitions

eKasi Entrepreneurs AcademyTraining and Development of township Entrepreneurs

◼ Three programmes run for selected entrepreneurs

▪ Ideas Generation Workshops

▪ Startup Businesses training

▪ Growth Businesses Training

◼ Weekly 1 day workshop every Saturday on various business aspects - Open to any entrepreneur

▪ Strategic and business Planning - Business Modelling

▪ Business and Personal Finances, Costing and Pricing

▪ Market segmentation and the 7P’s of Marketing

▪ Communications and Digital Marketing

▪ Building Systems and Processes in the business

▪ Personal branding and Professional Development

Future IMPACT Projects

◼ Mobile Mentorship Programme

◼ eKasi Incubations in different townships

◼ Training of Social Impact Entrepreneurs

◼ ACCESS - a Mobile App for opportunities and many more

“Our patron didn’t let the sky be his limit, he got a planet named after him…. he went for the galaxy”

eKasi Entrepreneurs Patron - Mr Siyabulela Xuza

Events and Activities

eKasi Social Innovation ChallengeMay - June & Oct - Nov

◼ There are many challenges in the townships - But these challenges may well be turned into opportunities

◼ eKasi Entrepreneurs aim to showcase three main challenges and invite entrepreneurs to come up with solutions for those

challenge

◼ Winner will be assisted with mentorship, Funding, Marketing and scalability of their idea to impact more areas

◼ Our aim is to ensure that we create entrepreneurs that solve societal issues and yet making a successful business model.

▪ Solving Challenges in the townships

▪ Solutions that are scalable

▪ Matched with Mentors

▪ Funded and supported to impact other townships

eKasi Summit & Business EXPOHammanskraal : 11 -13 June 2015

A culmination of major initiatives that impact entrepreneurs in the

township over a two-three days conference. Over this two days the

following initiatives and projects will take place.

OBJECTIVES

● Give entrepreneurs access to information and create a networking environment

within the townships

● Inspire and motivate entrepreneurs to execute on their visions and think bigger

● PowerTalks: showcase successful entrepreneurs from the townships

● Training and development - knowledge transfer to run a business

● Expert advice includes: tax, legal, marketing

● Workshop that gives them the tools to operate their business Breakaway session for a

discussion a topic chosen by our partners

● eKasi Business pitches and funding opportunities

● 2012 eKasi Conference Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayRZIMA1KUM

eKasi Summit and Business EXPOHammanskraal: 11 -13 June 2015

eKasi Entrepreneurs’ Conference

eKasi Business EXPO

Expert Advice and Consultation

POWERTALKS

Workshops and Training

eKasi Business Pitches

IMPACT Investment Summit

Gala DinnereKasi Business Awards

eKasi Business EXPOEach Municipality

◼ 2 Full day of exhibitions from different private and public institutions

◼ Concurrent Training Programmes

▪ Targeting Rural township municipalities (e.g. Mdantsane, Sedibeng etc)

▪ Training will cover various business aspects from our partner institutions - Wits Business School, SEDA etc

◼ A franchised model to be replicated in different municipalities around South Africa

Media and Communications Projects

eKasi Entrepreneurs MagOnline Magazine - Feb 2015

◼ An online platform that aim to showcase innovations and projects from

the townships

◼ Communicate opportunities that arise

◼ Showcase supportive projects that are being run by private sectors and

public sectors for entrepreneurs

◼ Run special projects - including research documents on township

entrepreneurs, profiling successful entrepreneurs from the townships

◼ Employ contributors from all areas in South Africa - mostly journalism

students

www.ekasimag.co.za

We sell advertising spaces on the online platform, run digital campaigns for

different corporates to fund our projects

eKasi EntrepreneursTV Programme on Soweto TV

◼ A TV Programme that will cover the following three areas

▪ Showcase successful young entrepreneur from the townships

▪ Tell his/her story of where they came from and how they made it

▪ Showcase an entrepreneurial supportive institution on their

projects and programmes they run

▪ This programme will be supported and funded by different

institutions

▪ Focus on a specific entrepreneurial topic weekly

◼ 13 episodes a season, broadcast weekly

A few reports

Target Market Job Creation - Direct & Permanent Credentials

Youth in Townships 7 - in eKasi Entrepreneurs 3 high level conferences in Khayelitsha Cape Town and Mdantsane Eastern Cape

Business Based in Townships or impact townships

12 - TV Programme Gave more than 800 entrepreneurs access to resources, information, mentorship

Innovators looking to scale 5 - Online Magazine More than 100 exhibitors collectively

Have business but no vision 5 - Business Hub More than 80 Inspirational Speakers

More than R8 million in media coverage

More than 50 different institutions involved

Introduction of different policies in Western Cape - Including”From Red tape to Red Carpet”

Costs

Snapshot of Costs

YEARLY FUNDING REQUIREMENTS

Amount

1 eKasi Entrepreneurs internal Yearly Operations R 1,983 900.00

2 eKasi Business Hub - OPEX and CAPEX R3 012 100.00

3 eKasi Entrepreneurs Academy and ACCESS R3 284 000.00

3 eKasi Social Innovation Challenge * 2 R272 504.00

4 eKasi Entrepreneurship Conference R835 475 .00

5 eKasi Business EXPO each R255,587.50

7 eKasi Online - Launch Feb 2015 R 472 200.00

8 eKasi Entrepreneurs TV Programme (Per season - 13 episodes) - Launch April R1 785 000.00

TOTAL R11 900 766.50

Detailed Financials can be found on - eKasi Business HUB, OPEX and Capex, eKasi Entrepreneurs Academy, ACCESS - https:

//docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ubz-_bQs3K4o8_AguFWRSxb6nWVgqif0-RSbpcE9r8U/edit?usp=sharing

- Internal Operations, Events and Activities, Media and Communications platforms - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QhQ7wipUP-ZWL2TqyZCt8g9PPxZGgg8Qjt_th3BTxNA/edit?usp=sharing

PARTNERSHIPS

Current & Previous Partners

Contact Us

Mr Elvis SekhaoleloFounding Executive DirectoreKasi [email protected] www.ekasientrepreneurs.co.za+2771 830 5675 / +2779 439 5266

OPEN, 4th Floor, Mainchange20 Kruger Street, City and SuburbanJohannesburg2094

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