South Africa: Western Cape Finance and Financial Options Hosts Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards
3 min readWestern Cape Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards 2020: A celebration of entrepreneurial resilience
The Western Cape Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards (WCERA) took spot as a hybrid virtual party at the Cape Town Global Convention Centre (CTICC) very last night (26 November 2020), for the duration of which twelve inspiring business people had been recognised for their difficult-perform and resilience for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Ntombi Nonxuba from Rise Uniforms profitable the title of “Small business of the Calendar year”.
Rise Uniforms is dependent in the Philippi region, employs 46 men and women from the encompassing area and is a maker and supplier of domestically made uniforms, corporate don and complementary clothes. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Ntombi pivoted her company to also deliver Own Protective Gear and in so undertaking was able to continue to keep her small business going and her employees employed for the duration of a quite hard time. A effectively-deserved winner!
Western Cape Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards 2020 winners:
Class
Firm name
Proprietor
Youth-owned Company: Winner
Ground Lifestyle
Sebastian Daniels
Youth-owned Company: Runner-up
Veldt Boerdery
Ansell Langeveldt
Girl-owned Business: Winner
Rise Uniforms
Ntombi Nonxuba
Girl-owned Organization: Runner-up
The Wren Design
Wendren Setzer
Township Enterprise: Winner
4Roomed eKasi Tradition
Abigail Mbalo
Township Business: Runner-up
Ntlantsana Accountants and Auditors
Simphiwe Joseph
Social Enterprise: Winner
Genesis Group IT Initiative
Llewellyn Scholtz
Social Enterprise: Runner
Click Africa Digital Pty
Jade Wyngaardt
Most Progressive Business: Winner
Hout Bay Air Water
Ray de vries
Most Progressive Enterprise: Runner-up
Renegade Wine
Jaap Pijl
Rising Enterprise: Winner
Aizatron
Ansu Sooful
Emerging Small business: Runner-up
Contour Enviro Group
Sabelo Lindani
Now in its eighth calendar year, the Western Cape Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards (WCERA) celebrates the difficult do the job of business owners and their contribution to task generation and financial expansion in the Western Cape. Importantly also, the successful companies are awarded with prize income and small business guidance companies that will assistance them to sustain or extend their organisations.
Congratulating all the winners through the keynote tackle, Western Cape Minister of Finance and Economic Prospects, David Maynier, said: “Our business owners deserve to be celebrated mainly because they engage in a critical role not only in generating careers, but they also guidance abilities enhancement and offer possibilities for those who will need it most. And they are role products for other folks, especially younger people today, who can find out from them and be inspired to start out their individual businesses. We support and inspire our business people, now extra than at any time, mainly because their entrepreneurial spirit is specifically what we have to have as we go on to struggle each a health pandemic and an unemployment pandemic in the Western Cape.
“And so, because the begin of the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to our numerous initiatives to assistance organizations, we have also been working hard to support business people in the Western Cape. I’m unbelievably very pleased that we have been ready to aid our business owners, because it is their brave leap into the unknown that success in disruption, in levels of competition, in far better techniques of performing and in the new thoughts that we will need to bounce again in the Western Cape.”