“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

• Access to a network of • Access to funders and

entrepreneurs funding
• Inspiration and Motivation • Pitching workshops

Conference and Funding

Business Expo Platforms

Social
Training and
Innovation
Workshops
Challenges

• Incentive to develop • Provide tools to efficiently

businesses that solve run a business; accounting;
practical problems in tax; legal
communities
Challenges faced by the province
Reference : 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

◼ 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

Area Hammanskraal Soweto Tsakane

Municipality Tshwane Municipality Johannesburg Municipality Ekurhuleni Municipality

HUB Focus 2016 - Manufacturing 2015 - Manufacturing, 2016 - Professional Services

Information Technology and
Professional Services

eKasi Academy Yes Yes Yes

eKasi EXPO Yes Yes Yes

eKasi Conference Yes NO NO

ACCESS Yes Yes Yes

Opportunities
ACCESS to opportunities
Activities 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 Academy
Training 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 Challenge
May - 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
EXPO
Hammanskraal : 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 EXPO
Hammanskraal: 11 -13 June 2015

eKasi
eKasi Business eKasi Business
Entrepreneurs’ POWERTALKS
EXPO Pitches
Conference

Expert Advice IMPACT

Workshops eKasi Business
and Investment Gala Dinner
and Training Awards
Consultation Summit
eKasi Business EXPO
Each 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 Mag
Online 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 Entrepreneurs
TV 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 12 - TV Programme Gave more than 800 entrepreneurs access to resources,
impact townships 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 Sekhaolelo
Founding Executive Director
eKasi Entrepreneurs
elvis@ekasientrepreneurs.co.za
www.ekasientrepreneurs.co.za
+2771 830 5675 / +2779 439 5266

OPEN, 4th Floor, Mainchange

20 Kruger Street, City and Suburban
Johannesburg
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