AfriSam empowers local entrepreneurs | Roodepoort Record

 

AfriSam (a provider of construction resources) offered free of charge business techniques education to 24 local entrepreneurs. Their graduation ceremony was held on Friday, 28 June at the AfriSam Organization Progress Centre.

As element of the company’s Enterprise Growth Programme, the graduates successfully completed a 4-months company skills programme intended to assist entrepreneur and small business house owners near to its Roodepoort and Eikenhof functions in Gauteng.

“At AfriSam, we comprehend that expanding smaller, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) is very important for broadening financial participation and offering on our country’s economic progress objectives” claimed Jabu Motlhako, Organization and Provider Progress Expert at AfriSam

According Jabu, AfriSam’s Company and Provider Growth Programme identifies, empowers and boosts the capacities of black-owned SMMEs that operate in shut proximity to the company’s functions. A further important goal of the programme is to provide the business owners with the needed help and establish them to expand their corporations and in the end be bundled in AfriSam’s databases of registered vendors.

AfriSam chosen 24 black SMMEs from communities close to its Eikenhof and Roodepoort functions for the coaching programme. The entrepreneurs had been from diverse industries ranging from catering, construction and property progress.”The education was really beneficial to me because it coated a selection of subject areas this sort of as commencing a company and protecting it, as nicely as handling the funds. I have also learnt how to do my enterprise profile. I will be in a position to go again to my group and employ the unemployed youth,” said Bram Fischerville entrepreneur, Peter Molete. The corporation will also be helping 5 of the graduating SMMEs with place of work room for between 12 and 36 months at its Business Development Centre.