Red Group
Keenan George
Western Cape
Luthando Mchiza
Kwa-Zulu Natal
The team at Perfect Drilling believes that water is a basic need for all so they work closely with the government and private sector clients to provide geotechnical services, including borehole drilling, water-quality testing, water purification and filtration systems, to previously disadvantaged villages, schools, farms and homes.
Thabiso Ngcobo
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Thabiso’s innovative product could revolutionise the burial industry: the shielder is a treated timber structure that’s currently supplied to funeral homes. It’s used as a measurement tool for the grave site preparations, protects the coffin from termites and prevents the soil and gravestone from collapsing.
Babongile Mqwathi
Gauteng
Valour Flora is a flower shop that offers a vibrant array of fresh flowers, delightful gifts and charming balloons. Whether you’re looking for a bouquet to express love, a gift to celebrate a milestone or balloons to bring joy, owner Babongile strives to provide exceptional quality and service, ensuring each customer leaves with a smile.
Green Group
Wayne Abbott
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Inspired by a deeply personal story, Wayne started Rent2Recover to make at-home medical recovery periods more manageable and cost-effective for patients and their families by offering short-term rental options for mobility equipment, including electric wheelchairs, scooters, hospital beds and bath lifts.
Bandile Fihla
Eastern Cape
Is there anything new parents want more than a decent night’s sleep? Well, Bandile Fihla has made it his business to ensure they get it! His business produces and sells a natural remedy, Iyeza LePleyiti. It offers relief from the pain and discomfort associated with colic in infants and is based on a trusted family recipe that has been refined over the years.
Fortune Gumede
Gauteng
Fortune has developed a user-friendly mobile app that takes the hassle out of funeral planning, giving grieving families peace of mind when it matters most. His app makes organising the funeral, sharing the necessary arrangements and live-tracking the convoy easier than ever.
Sibongiseni Mngadi
Gauteng
With Zinacare’s healthcare tests, you can skip the doctor or clinic visit and have various non-invasive, self-collection heath tests delivered to your front door. The service includes the cost of sending the sample to the lab and you receive your confidential results within 48 hours. How’s that for fast, convenient and hassle-free healthcare?
Blue Group
Kenneth Twala
Gauteng
Kenneth is a qualified ceramic designer who specialises in manufacturing pottery such as vases, pots and mirrors, which are supplied to high-end and middle-market decor and furniture shops. Through his business, Kenneth aspires to use crafting as a way to create jobs for both women and men, particularly in township communities.
Cheslin Denman
Gauteng
Ardis Phaswane
Gauteng
Inspired by her personal journey in overcoming bulimia, Ardis created a healthy, nutritious porridge, which can be served hot or cold, either as a drink or a meal. It is recommended for use by people with a range of health concerns, including diabetes, anaemia, bulimia and high- or low-blood pressure.
Phumulile Mkhonza
Mpumalanga
Meet the fragrance queen, Phumulile. Her business is a manufacturer and wholesaler of perfumes, personal bodycare products like fragranced body lotions, body butter and tissue oil. She recently expanded her range to include homecare items, including natural reed diffusers, scented linen sprays and car air-fresheners. Phumulile proudly offers perfume filling and capping services for emerging perfumers in the market and supplies her products to lodges, guest houses and hotels.
Yellow Group
Xolani Nombenu
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Xolani and his business partners run three thriving salons in KZN that provide high-quality products and services to help their clients grow dreadlocks from scratch and maintain healthy locs. They are on a mission to encourage Africans to love and embrace their natural, ethnic hair and pride themselves on providing skills and employment opportunities to previously disadvantaged youth.
Braden Snyman & Avi Maja
Gauteng
Braden and Avi are the dynamic duo behind Breaze Delivery, a platform that connects over 700 drivers with clients on online ordering platforms to facilitate fast and affordable deliveries, including same-day and on-demand (60-minute) delivery, for e-commerce merchants. They have over 100 clients connected to their platform and, in the last 12 months, paid out R3 million in revenue to their drivers.
Cindy Semenye
Gauteng
Cindy tapped into her years of experience in the fashion industry to create her signature biodegradable fabric, washi, which means “paper” in Japanese. Drawing inspiration from an ancient Japanese papermaking technique, she crafts the washi from Abaca plant and Softwood oak cellulose and the final product is a step in the right direction for a more sustainable textile industry. The company also uses natural dyes and blends the paper strips with silk or other eco-friendly strands to create washi yarn.
Nthabiseng Lephoko
Gauteng
Nthabiseng’s vision for Nutrintha was to blend nature and science to promote holistic wellness and beauty. The brand specialises in superfoods, offering products like smoothies, drinks and meal replacements that include sea moss, a vegan, gluten-free source of many nutrients. The business is sustainability conscious, sourcing their sea moss from compliant and ethical suppliers – they also use the sea moss byproducts to manufacture other organic products.
