Nedbank Business Accelerator 2017: Recent Episodes
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The Nedbank Business Accelerator Campaign with 702 celebrates entrepreneurs who build the businesses that South Africa needs.
We want to help successful, established entrepreneurships get to the next level by giving business owners the opportunity to share their stories and insights on air.
As a result, South Africa’s most influential audience will be talking and acting in favour of your business. They want South Africa to work and have the capability to make it happen!
Business growth specialist, Pavlo Phitidis works with business owners and will also help you to make key changes necessary to accelerate your business.
Guest: Gladys Ncube R&G Logistics SA
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Winstone Jordaan Director at GridCars
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Pavlo speaks to Tumisang Kgaboesel
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Pavlo speaks to Ntombenhle Khathwane
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If future success depends on current maths knowledge, A+ Students is providing a generation of children with the skills required to accomplish phenomenal achievements. Marlene Mouton’s company A+ Students South Africa, teaches Soroban Abacus Maths and mental arithmetic, as well as providing retail educational play products to help children learn.
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Bridge Taxi Finance helps taxi owners and operators obtain new model vehicles that are cheaper and safer.
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EndlessLife Services helps overcome the many challenges faced by the public in respect of medical and social issues, by providing comprehensive and integrated medical home health. EndlessLife Services, founded by Caroline Mbi-njifor, is a pioneer in re-engineering the provision of comprehensive and integrated medical home health and social services to the general population. Tthe company uses of proprietary technology and targets families at their convenience, at home.
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Otto Werdmuller Von Elgg has decided to use his drones to actually do something about it. UAV and Drone Solutions (UDS) uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to help combat wildlife crime and provide security and engineering services to both the public and private sectors.
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Eco-Match is a recycled concrete aggregate handler that adopts green principles to eliminate construction waste by turning it into cost-effective material for the client to reuse. Craig Allen’s Eco-Match focuses on the handling and processing of construction and demolition waste.
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Mitech Direct offers customers access to skills and products across the entire spectrum of musical and related technologies, including instruments, home cinema and speakers.
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By developing programs to enable simulated training and improved communications within the corporate market, bizAR Reality has set itself up as a leader in the virtual reality space. Anthony Eva was focused on the software industry and how he could find a gap in the market to exploit, which is when the concept of augmented and virtual reality struck him, leading to the formation of bizAR Reality.
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Reba remains a quality-driven company and meets customer needs by constantly developing and introducing new ranges of products to the market. His goal is to double in size and staff compliment by 2019.
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Chartall Business College assists white collar workers to turn real-world experience and skills into a recognised qualification, through its Recognition of Prior Learning assessment process. Recognition of Prior Learning is a mediated assessment process to help working adults obtain a proper qualification, without the need to go back to class and study.
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Health Haven is a medical practice that services patients suffering from both chronic diseases and diminishing medical aid limits, helping them to get the best out of life.
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When the top hotels, lodges and boutique establishments require preservative-free, bespoke artisanal room treats for their guests, they turn to Lardiere Fine Foods.
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Success in a new market is built on effective information about the region you are investing in. Africa House is a research firm that delivers intelligence on the sub-Saharan African region.
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Jamsco Automotive Assemblies proves that local is lekker by providing stamped and assembled car components for major vehicle manufacturers, both locally and internationally. Hayley Eagle’s Jamsco Automotive Assemblies, supplies stamped components both locally and internationally. It also assembles the stabiliser bar, struts, rear axle and corner hub on two well-known vehicles.
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A leader in the real estate market, Fieldspace Property is reaching new heights, thanks to its ground-breaking virtual reality tool that makes it a leader in innovation. Founded by Scott Field, Fieldspace is a property group that focuses primarily on A and B grade commercial, industrial and retail properties in Gauteng, with some representation in Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal.
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Makwande Auctioneers is a young, black, female-owned business that specialises in disposing – via auction - of products like redundant manufacturing equipment and scrap metal.
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Jodam Manufacturers is one of South Africa’s leading custom cosmetic bag and promotional packaging manufacturers. Started by her parents in 1986, Jodi Fittinghoff says tha under her direction, the company has been producing innovative packaging and gifting solutions – including toiletry bags, cosmetic bags, coolers, shoppers, totes and travel bags - to customers’ specifications for the past 20 years.
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When it comes to delivering high quality, real wood furniture in the antique English and French style, nobody does it better than Millers Antiques. A 90-year old family business, the company is still located at the original store in Maboneng/ Doornfontein.
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A woman-owned transport and logistics company is unusual in what is traditionally a male-dominated industry – but R&G Logistics is all about breaking down expected norms. Gladys Ncube provides clients with the best logistical road solutions in the country via her business.
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Fastener Agencies distributes a wide range of fasteners to a number of manufacturing industries, delivering quality products, passionate staff and exceptional customer service.
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With a business strategy built around developing innovative, solar-powered products, Suntoy is a lean, clean and green enterprise. Harald Schulz’s company Suntoy manufactures the Consol Solar Jar.
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Supply Chain Partner is dedicated to assisting clients to not only achieve compliance, but also to realise sustainable, value generating procurement solutions. Chimae Goncalves’ noble goal with her company Supply Chain Partner is to make SA a better place by reducing fraud and corruption.
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K1 Recycling is a buy-back centre for plastic waste and makes a difference in the lives of hundreds of people who collect rubbish on a daily basis. Tshepo Mazibuko’s K1 Recycling purchases and sells waste recyclables. Tshepo founded the business on the back of making a living as a plastic waste collector.
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Isiyalu Manufacturing is a clothing cooperative that produces clothing for a range of industries, built around enabling many struggling families to become self-sustaining. William Dhlongolo’s company, Isiyalu Manufacturing and Retailing Primary Cooperative, produces customised clothing across a range of categories, including corporate uniforms, protective clothing, sportswear, and specialised gym cycling, aerobics, gymnastics and swimwear.
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Eltherm SA takes the concept of ‘heat tracing’ and uses it to improve client products, increase their energy efficiency and minimise break-downs on their production lines. Zweli Dladla and his company Eltherm SA was built on the opportunity that he and his partners recognised for bringing heat tracing to SA. Heat tracing is a technology that enables manufacturers of products like bitumen and chemicals and in industries like food processing, to maintain heat during the production process.
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Content Candy helps businesses to tell their brand story via a range of mediums, in the sweetest manner possible. Brendah Nyakudya-Dandala founded Content Candy three years ago after noticing a trend that brands were building their own newsrooms and telling their own stories.
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John McLoughlin founded J2 Software building a company that reduces risk, improves security and eliminates cyber threats. Now J2 Software delivers tailor-made cyber-security solutions for businesses of all sizes, to handle the rapidly evolving threats of ransomware and malware.
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Company founder Tumisang Kgaboesele says that APM has found its niche in intercity transport by providing quality service, affordable fares, reliable coaches, personal safety, a convenient and reliable timetable and a punctual service.
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Tim has taken the idea that the great outdoors inspires people to be healthy and fit to a whole new level. His company, Green Outdoor Gyms, caters to those many communities who cannot afford gym fees.
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Jonathan’s company manufactures high quality adapters, mulitplugs, switches and sockets for a customer base that includes the electrical wholesale market, distributors and the direct retail market.
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Whether it’s a product, a prototype or a part, if you can envision it, CAD House has the skills and equipment to print it out in three dimensions. It was launched by Bernhard Vogt some seven years ago, when he recognised the necessity to offer product prototyping and 3D printing together with 3D CAD design services.
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