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Building it for SuccessFounder & CEO of WM Physiotherapists: Wanda Mhobo, South AfricaWanda Mhobo is the Founder & CEO of WM Physiotherapists, a home-based Physiotherapy practice in South Africa that focuses on treating patients in the comfort of their homes. In the last 12 years, Wanda has treated several patients including high profile leaders and business people. After his former employer rejected the home-based physiotherapy idea, and later some big investors turning his business idea down, Wanda decided he will not give up on an idea he believed in. Today, he runs a successful home-based physio practice in 4 provinces in South Africa - and growing into the rest of South Africa and...2021-02-131h 00
Building it for SuccessFounder & CEO of Shava Group: Simbarashe MabashaSimbarashe Mabasha is the Founder and CEO of Shava Group, an Agriculture commodity trading business. Simbarashe pursued a number of initiatives, from minerals trading to establishing a media company. He shares his journey about how failing never stopped him as an entrepreneur and we also get to know about his key learnings over the years.
Simbarashe owned and managed an online based Fast Moving Consumable Goods (FMCG) and Minerals Trading company. He continued his entrepreneurial path to the Media industry culminating in the formation of Afrikan Dust Media Group (ADMG). ADMG was a vertically integrated Media...2021-02-0653 min
Building it for SuccessFounder and CEO of SirSam Co: Sam Maloka, South AfricanSam Maloka, is the founder & CEO of SirSam Co., a South African company that focuses on minerals trading, Farm security and Skills development training. Sam tells me about the importance of converting every good idea you may have into a business. You don’t need to have all the skills for every idea, but you just need to have the mind of an entrepreneur.
Sam Maloka is an economist by profession, having studied Bachelor of Commerce (in Economics) and Master’s Degree in Development from the University of Limpopo, completed in 1998 and 2006 respectively. He also has a Master’s Degree in Bus...2021-01-3059 min
Building it for SuccessCo-founder of MORA Ecological Services: Mokgatla Molepo, South AfricaMokgatla Molepo is the Co-Founder of Mora Ecological Services, a consulting firm that focuses on biodiversity studies and Environmental Impact Assessments in South Africa. Prior to establishing MORA Ecological Services, Mokgatla gained experience as a Research Assistant at University of Venda, Zoological Systematics Technician at South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and also as an Ecologist at Plantago Lanceolata (Pty) Ltd and as a sub-contracted Avifaunal surveyor for Arcus Consultancy working on Wind Energy Farm projects in Eastern Cape.
He is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the Department of Environmental, Water and Earth Sciences at the Tshwane...2021-01-2351 min
Building it for SuccessTurning passion for food into a profitable business: Conversation with Siba Mtongana, Founder of The Siba Co.Siba Mtongana is a multi award-winning celeb chef, mom, author, and founder of the The Siba Co. Through her global work, she earned the status of global food icon and has reached over 135 countries worldwide, and 60 million homes in the USA through the Cooking Channel alone.
With so much under her belt including being one of the most in-demand celebrity chefs on an array of local and international programmes, at food festivals the world over and not forgetting on glossy magazine covers, it is hard to sum up just how barricade-breaking this down-to-earth chef with her humble...2021-01-0949 min
Building it for SuccessConversation with CEO & Co-Founder of Ecokaya: Tânia Tomé, MozambiqueTânia Tomé is a multifaceted international award winner, economist, entrepreneur, TV personality, coach and author. As chairwoman of Ecokaya, she has become a sought-after international coach and motivational speaker who has developed her own inspirational method and concept called Succenergy to empower people, entrepreneurs and leaders.
The method is used in various trainings, coaching, workshops, and lectures presented by her company to companies and public and private organizations in several countries, such as Uganda, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Rwanda, USA, Swaziland and Mozambique, among others. To date, more than five mi...2020-12-1947 min
Building it for SuccessTransforming Smallholder Farming in South Africa: Zamokuhle Thwala, Founder & CEO of AgrikoolZamokuhle Thwala, is the Co-founder & CEO at AgriCool Finance. He owns start-up that helps smallholder farmers to access the market for their farm produce and also micro-financing opportunities to support crop production.
Through their business, they intend to eradicate exploitation of small holder farmers, improve food quality and empower farmers to improve their profit margins and household income.
Zamokuhle graduated with an Agriculture Engineering degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and because of his passion for entrepreneurship and also that he was a small holder farmer while studying, he immediately, after his studies, launched...2020-12-0555 minBuilding it for SuccessFounder of PEM Afurika: Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase, South AfricaPie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase is the Founder and Director at PEM Afurika, a management consulting company aiming at helping entrepreneurs to adopt a problem-based approach to business development. He is also an Associate Consultant with IDG South Africa, and a Consulting Partner with Whitten and Roy Partnership, both companies with global reach, where he focuses on people-related business solutions. Pie-Pacifique’s journey includes growing up in Rwanda in tumultuous times that claimed members of his family. His father, a political prisoner in the eighties, died in 1989 when Pie-Pacifique was only 8 years old. Due to his father’s political history, Pie-Pacifique’s family were a...2020-11-071h 04Building it for SuccessLuxury African Fashion Design Business: Antonio Macheve Jr., Founder of XIPIXI, MozambiqueAntonio Macheve Jr. is the founder of XIPIXI, a Luxury fashion design brand. He has an interesting story about how he started his business. After coming back to Maputo from New York he tried to look for a job for 2 years without success. One day he made his own pair of shorts using about $3 and that opened the door for his fashion design business. Antonio shares his journey and how he is building his business for success.
XIPIXI brand specialises in the production of top quality menswear fashion. The brand is inspired by Rachel Zoe’s idea that “Fashion is sayin...2020-10-3159 minBuilding it for SuccessMonetising your air travel: Waleed Abdou, Co-Founder & CEO of Airgiftr, EgyptWaleed Abdou is the Co-Founder & CEO of Airgiftr, a business where an air traveller is matched with a person in Egypt who requires a product from abroad. The traveler is the airgiftr and gets to make some cash when he/she arrives in Egypt. As a traveller or airgiftr, it also just improves your overall travel experience into Egypt. Waleed transformed an idea into an actual viable business. Visit https://airgiftr.com to learn more about Waleed's business.2020-10-241h 01Building it for SuccessProtecting Endangered Gorillas: Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Co-Founder & CEO of CTPH, UgandaDr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is the Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an award-winning NGO that protects endangered gorillas and other wildlife through One Health approaches. Through her organisation, they are coming up with modern ways of protecting mountain Gorillas in Uganda with very close collaboration with communities that are living around the habitats where these Gorillas are found. She shares her inspiring journey building a successful NGO that protects wildlife.
Follow her on twitter @DoctorGladys and @GCCoffee1 2020-10-1755 minBuilding it for SuccessTrailer: The Entrepreneurs of Africa, Building it for Success with CaiphasAfrica has so much wealth of knowledge and resources, and there are plenty of people who are leading in front to drive Africa's progress. My passion has always been to unleash the leadership and entrepreneurial wisdom in Africa through the sharing of inspiring real life success stories to light up the way and inspire many others in Africa and around the world. From 17 October 2020, I bring you some exceptional stories and interviews of executives and entrepreneurs and you will hear how they are successfully building their business or careers against all odds. I unpack...2020-09-2001 min