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Namakwa Bootcamp

May 31, 2023

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This year the boot camp was in Namakwa, where resilience, innovation, and transformative event is taking place. The Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp is not just a program; it’s a catalyst for change.

This blog post will take you on a journey through this remarkable initiative, designed to empower women in business by bridging the digital divide. From laptops and mobile routers to digital literacy and marketing training, this boot camp is changing the game for small business owners in Namakwa.

Table of Contents

The Essence of the Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp
Equipping Entrepreneurs with Technology
Unlocking Digital Literacy: A Gateway to Growth
Mastering Digital Marketing: The Art of Visibility
The Impact of the Bootcamp: Stories of Transformation
Joining Forces for a Digital Namakwa
Conclusion: Empowering Entrepreneurs for a Digital Future

The Essence of the Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp

The Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp is more than just a program; it’s a movement that’s transforming the way women in business approach technology. In an era where digital presence this initiative is bridging the gap, ensuring that no woman entrepreneur gets left behind. Now this is important to us as we saw our women in business are not using technology in their business.

Equipping Entrepreneurs with Technology

Small businesses use laptops or computers where there is

to check emails,
do RFQ(Request For Quotations),
update CSD (Central Supplier Database), do marketing,
do administration, etc.

That is why we saw at the core of this boot camp is the provision of essential tools for success. Small business owners receive not just laptops but also mobile routers, ensuring they stay connected even in remote areas. These tools are the foundation upon which digital transformation is built. Laptops and mobile routers are more than just devices; they’re gateways to opportunity. They enable entrepreneurs to tap into the vast digital landscape, connect with customers, explore new markets, and streamline their operations.

Unlocking Digital Literacy: A Gateway to Growth

Digital literacy is the key that unlocks the door to the digital world. Through tailored training, entrepreneurs gain the skills and knowledge needed to navigate this landscape confidently. It’s about not only having the tools but knowing how to use them.

Mastering Digital Marketing: The Art of Visibility

One of the main reasons small businesses die is not that they’re products or services are bad but because of a lack of visibility to attract customers. In today’s digital age, visibility is everything. The boot camp doesn’t stop at digital literacy; it goes further by offering training in digital marketing. Every business has clients offline and online but due to the lack of resources small businesses have it is hard to reach their target of offline target and expensive at times that is why, small business owners learn how to showcase their businesses effectively, online to reach a wider audience and drive growth.

The Impact of the Bootcamp: Stories of Transformation

The true measure of any initiative lies in the impact it creates. This bootcamp is not about checking off the checkboxes is about creating an impact. From this program, we want to see every business that took part in this boot camp have an online presence minimum having a social media presence. Hopefully, after a few months, we are going to have inspiring stories of entrepreneurs who have not only embraced technology but have also witnessed remarkable transformations in their businesses and lives.

Joining Forces for a Digital Namakwa

The Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp is not a solo endeavor; it’s a collective effort. It’s a coming together of organizations, mentors, and entrepreneurs, all with a shared vision of a digitally empowered Namakwa.

This bootcamp joined forces with:

Kangas Wind Farm
DSBD (Department Of Small Business)
SEDA (Small Enterprise Development Agency)
Namakwa District Municipality
Government Communication and Information System

Conclusion: Empowering Entrepreneurs for a Digital Future

As we conclude this journey through the Namakwa Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, we invite you to explore the use of technologies in your small businesses, and the promise of a digital future for Namakwa’s women in business. This initiative is not just about technology; it’s about empowerment, resilience, and the boundless potential that arises when barriers are removed.

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Comment below on how are you using technology in your business.

Five things to ask for when applying for funding

October 3, 2022

by admin with 2 Comments Business Skills Training

5 things to ask for when applying for funding

1. Small business coach

2. Marketing program and marketing materials

3. Bookkeeper

4. Equipment

5. Stock

The mistake we make when applying for funding is concentrating on equipment and sometimes stock, which ends up setting the business for failure.

Skipping 1, 2, and 3 business ends up failing or taking a long time to see results or grow.

1) Why a small business coach

The purpose of the small business coach is to guide you, support you, help you see the blind spot, and hold you accountable.

Now, one of the reasons businesses fail is to lack support and have no one to talk to when things get overwhelming.

Entrepreneurship is a lonely path that is not like when you are employed, you can talk to your co-worker that’s when things get overwhelming. That’s why a small business coach will support you.

2) Why are Marketing programs and marketing materials

The are two options you can do the marketing yourself or get a services provider to do it for you, either way, marketing has to be done to get sales in the business.

Marketing programs include marketing strategies, marketing plans, and content creation for you to get visible in front of potential clients.

Marketing materials help clients find your office.

3) Why bookkeeper

I have seen a business fail and close because the pricing was wrong, and don’t know how to use money.

A bookkeeper will help with your books so you to see where money is going and what you are using money in.

You don’t have to hire a booker full-time. You can get a service you pay a monthly subscription for them to main your books in order.

4)Why equipment

Most of the time, the business needs equipment to start operations, especially product-based businesses.

Most funding can’t go over a certain amount. Don’t use the funding only for equipment start with one or two pieces of equipment the others you will buy as you grow.

If you are going to spend all your funding on equipment growth for the business will be slow because you still have to figure out how to get clients.

Funding doesn’t run or get the business sales. To get sales you must market the business.

5) Why stock

The stock you need to start selling, especially in product businesses.

Conclusion

It is cheaper to start a service business than a product business. Whatever business you decide to start or currently operating ask for these five things in your funding.

Have you included these 5 when applying for funding?

ICT package winners

September 23, 2022

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Three businesses received ICT packages for the business on your hand program that started in August 2022.

ICT, or information and communications technology (or technologies), is the infrastructure and components that enable modern computing.

Small or big ICT plays a role in every business.

How so, you may be asking?

Let’s say you are a street food vendor.

It is convenient for clients to swipe when they don’t have cash. Electronic swipe machines help you not to lose clients.

Digital Transactions

Online or automated transactions take place between people and organizations without the use of paper.

How did these three businesses get ICT Packages

To end the Business On Your Hand phase1.

We surprised women Entrepreneurs in Colesberg with the art of pitching to see if entrepreneurs can present their businesses on the spot.

Three winners we chosen and equipped with an ICT package.

Most of the time, we see businesses miss opportunities for funding because they can’t pitch.

Learn the skill and develop yourself.

Learn the art of how to pitch your business to potential investors.

AYEYE Colesberg, AYEYE. MRKTTF

We did business on your hand program, but before each program, we asked entrepreneurs to tell us about your business.

More than 30 businesses attended, but only 11 introduced themselves. After interacting with entrepreneurs on 23 September 2022, we wanted to show entrepreneurs always be ready.

You never know what is going to happen.

ICT Packages

The businesses received an ICT Package that included the:

Laptop
Printer
Pocket Router

The businesses that received these packages are:

1) Mosenzwa trading =>

Smethemba Juda owns an internet and printing business.

2) Makhathini Legacy =>

Phindile Makhathini-Tameka owns a Construction company currently hiring out her construction equipment

3) Sumeya General Trading =>

Phumza May owns a roof manufacturing, business registration, and business plan writing business

Watch the space

Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund supports and promotes women in business

Business In Your Hand Program

August 1, 2022

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Business on your phone in your hand

We are taking your business into your hand, and online.

WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR DIGITAL LITERACY’’ Business in your hand Program

We started this program because we wanted women in business to be ready to grab every opportunity that comes their way by having their business documents on their phones.

When opportunities come your way, no excuses, you must be ready to grab them!

Digital literacy means having the skills needed to live, learn, and work post-COVID-19 because communication and access to information are forcefully through digital technologies like internet platforms, social media, and mobile devices. The influence of technology on businesses is the main reason for this program.

The influence of technology on businesses is the main reason for this program. When opportunities come, you are ready to grab it and not make excuses.

The business in your hand program

Teach you to use and organize emails for your business
Business documents you must have on your phone
Check if your business is online and how you are currently marketing your business
Give you tips to start to add your business online.
Social media app to schedule your posts

and more

Is now the time to go digital

Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund offers non-financial and financial support. The business in your hand program is part of the non-financial support to assist you in using your phone for business.

Business In Your Hand Program will be held at:

Phase 1

Frances Baard District

Barkly West
Warrenton
Kimberley
Pampiertstard

Namakwa District

Pella
Springbok

ZF MGCAWU District

Kenhardt
Keimoes
Riemvasmaak
Kakamas
Rietfontein

Pixley Ka Seme District

Griewkastrd
Douglas
Victoria West
Colesberg

Phase 2

JTG District

Kathu
Kuruman

ZFM District

Augrabies
Upington
Postmasburg
Danieskuiel

Frances Baard District

Platfontein
Delportshoop
Ritchie
Jan Kempdorp
Hartswater

Women Entrepreneur Digital Literacy Program

July 6, 2022

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Women Entrepreneur Digital Literacy Program equipment handover took place at Thabo Moorosi Multipurpose Centre Mothibistard joined by the Honorable Executive District Mayor Pulane Mogatle, local municipalities, Department of small business, SEDA, SEFA, NYDA, and Assmang Khumani Mine.

Mmê Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund’s (MRKTTF) core mandate is supporting and promoting women’s entrepreneurship was established
by the Northern, Cape Government to assist women in starting and growing their businesses.

JTG (John Taolo Gaetsewe) is the first district to launch Women Entrepreneur Digital Literacy Program.

Women entrepreneurs in the program were taught how to use a computer and digital marketing. After they received communication gadgets laptops, printers, modems, and data.

Mmê Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund’s provincial manager Mrs. Gladys Motshele explains the purpose of the program:

The purpose of this program is women’s entrepreneur’s economic empowerment.
Empowering a woman – is empowering a nation!

The digital literacy program is helping women entrepreneurs have the skills needed to live, learn, and work in a society where communication and access to information are increasingly through digital technologies like internet platforms, social media, and mobile devices.

Digital transformation offers unique opportunities for entrepreneurial women and opens them up to a digital world, innovative business ideas, and growth opportunities are within their grasp.

The opportunities provided by technology and ICTs for women entrepreneurs are in digital commerce, digital services, and other novel entrepreneurial opportunities that will continue to unfold.

For this reason, we could not let the Northern Cape Women Entrepreneurs be left behind.

It is therefore vital that access to ICTs is provided to women to ensure that digital solutions and the efficiencies they provide enable women to thrive in their micro, small, and/or medium-sized entrepreneurial ventures.

The keynote address was done by the JTG Executive District Mayor Pulane Mogatle ” Do not always wait for free things empower yourself and grab every opportunity that comes your way”

The JTG Women Entrepreneur Digital Literacy program sponsors are Assmang Khumani Mine and SEDA.

Mmê Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund (MRKTTF) provides accessible, affordable credit, grants, and non-financial support services. We assist in starting and expanding businesses for sustainable livelihood.

Working together we can do more!

Events, projects, or programs that are women-driven, partner with us or invite us, and we will be happy to come!

We are calling on collaborations, partnerships, sponsorships or donations

We don’t only want the women entrepreneurs capacitated, but we want them to have resources with relevant Information Communication Technology package which includes software program laptop, WI-FI router, Smartphone, Printer, etc.

We look forward to this partnership which will allow us to facilitate and create a wide-ranging positive economic and social impact in the form of job creation, skills development, and investment in Women’s Small businesses.

#MRKTTF

#NorthernCape

#JTG

JTG Women Entrepreneur Bootcamp

November 21, 2021

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JTG 2021/2022 Bootcamp

The JTG women entrepreneur Bootcamp will take place on the 1s quarter.

Theme: Access to market using technology post-COVID-19

Sharpening women digital skills

“Enhancing Income growth among Small and Micro Women Entrepreneurs through technology”

Mmê Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund is the only initiative by the Northern Cape Government, that has been instrumental in the promotion of women’s economic empowerment.

MRKTTF provides accessible, affordable credit, grants, and non-financial support services. We assist in starting and expanding businesses for sustainable livelihood.

It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded and we now look ahead to the serious work of rebooting our communities and our economies for a better, more sustainable, and equitable post-pandemic world.

Mmê Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund Women Entrepreneur Bootcamp 2021, will be held under the theme “Access to market using technology post-COVID-19.”

Post Covid-19, digital technology has become a lifeline for millions around the world, and a critical tool to cope with the crisis and its aftermath. It is now or never; Women Entrepreneurs need to be digitally empowered. Today technology is a core part of everyday life.

Almost every day we use smartphones, tablets, and computers to search for information, navigate to new places, pay bills and connect with our family and friends. The number of digital tools at our disposal is endless, however, many women are still struggling digitally. Smartphones offer a range of new ways to communicate, network, and learn. If women don’t know how to utilize digital tools, their businesses will suffer. It is therefore important to build capacities through skills training and complement that with digital equipment.

Objectives of the JTG women entrepreneur Bootcamp

ICT interventions that are directed at economically empowering women capitalize on the potential of these technologies as knowledge and networking tools for women as producers and distributors of goods and services.
To connect women to new and wider markets, broaden their social networks and provide them with information that opens up important economic opportunities.
Provide required training and mentoring in digital space;
Provide digital tools to beneficiaries of the Bootcamp

Request for Partnerships / Sponsorships JTG women entrepreneur Bootcamp

Apply to be part of the JTG 2021/2022 Bootcamp

Please fill in all the fields as requested

Upcoming Makeup Artists Supported

December 15, 2020

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On the 21st of October 2020, Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund (MRKTTF) called upcoming makeup artists to help them start or grow their makeup business.

Makeup workshop 1 took place on the 4th of November 2020 at Tamsin’s Beauty Lounge, Kimberley.

There was an overwhelming amount of people who were interested in the workshop. We only had limited space.
We decided to start with Dikgatlong, Phokwane, and Magareng Local Municipality. Sol Plaatje municipality will follow.
The will be other workshops depending on the availability of the service provider.

The winner of the first makeup workshop is Joy Nomhle Raadt.

Joy won a spray and 2 shimmer dust from Tamsin’s Beauty Lounge.
Joy is a 26-year-old self-taught make artist. Originally from Eastern Cape (Middleburg)moved to Kimberley in 2010 and completed high school in 2013 at Northern Cape High School.
In 2017, she started a wig/hair business and later in the year fell in love with makeup.

Watching YouTube tutorials daily, she made it her mission to learn everything she needs to do makeup artistry, and she never looked back ever since.
Joy currently is based in Delportshoop, Dikgatlong Local Municipality.
Today, Joy gives clients makeovers for weddings, matric dance, baby shower, etc.

Here is some of Joy’s work.

Joy said," God willing, in the next few years, I see myself as a well-known makeup artist with a booming business known not only in a small town but other cities as well."

MRKTTF supporting upcoming makeup artist with:

Makeup masterclass R400
Brushes R420
Makeup Box R1 500
Gift Voucher R300

MRKTTF assists aspirant entrepreneurs who want to own businesses but, they do not know how and where to start. We take passion, hobby, or skill and turn it into a business.

Sometimes you do not go to school to learn how to run a small business but, you have a business. That is where MRKTTF comes in to assist you, to take you to step by step in your business journey.

Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund helps small businesses to grow their businesses so that they can grow and join the economy of the province and the country.

“Whether you are doing makeup out of a hobby or passion they are things you can do and things you can’t do. They are consequences that can ruin your reputation as a makeup artist.

Photos of the MRKTTF Workshop 1

Advise by the Provincial Manager Mrs. Gladys Motshele:

Always advise the clients to go for facial testing at Dischem, Clicks, Foschini, Truworths, Edgars. etc. The skin testing of what is going to react on you your skin and what is not.
At your own time, at your own cost, at your own pace. Learn how to test people’s skin, and test the makeup foundation you must use on different skin colors.
Let clients bring the makeup they use or make them sign an indemnity form that protects you if their skin reacts to the makeup you used on them.
Collaboration is very important, make partnerships with other makeup artists. Some can be excellent in eyeshades, contouring, overlining, etc.
Every day try to check one or two things about your industry.
Research the does and don’t about the makeup and beauty industry.
The moment you open the business bank account, take out public reliability insurance. When you are running a business, you are running it for the public. Protect yourself and your business

If you don’t know the cost of your makeup and how many people your makeup can accommodate.

It means you like what you are doing but on the administrative business side. You don’t know what you are doing!

Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund- Supporting and Promoting Women Entrepreneurship contact us to assist you with non-financial and financial support.

MRKTTF follow the passion of an individual woman and support it because we want to see you grow.

Photos of the Mme Re Ka Thusa Trust Fund Makeup Handover