Ario is an engineering, manufacturing company that manages a very well-diversified portfolio of high-tech projects. The company has its own on-site manufacturing warehouse where engineers develop and assemble turbine inverters and industrial rectifiers. The business’ clientele include multinational corporations who use high-tech industrial capacity inverters,...
Established in 2014 by two black industrialists, Terence Pokane Leluma, and Phumzile Portia Nkomo, Makhamisa Foods specialises in the creation of flavoured food sauces such as Jalapeno and Pickled Vegetables. The sauce products are branded with the company’s own name and were mixed using formulas...
Bukabopa is a tale of entrepreneurial perseverance and black industrialist success. The company is one of a few black owned engineering factories that manufacture steel components used to build locomotives and buses. Established in 2013 by a black industrialist couple, Director Palello Lebaka and Manager...
Based in the Eastern Cape, this company is an example of the success that young and entrepreneurial individuals can have in a well-established industry. 24 new direct jobs. Growth in a business owned by Black Industrialists and youth. Rashaad Musa and Ricardo Ferreira identified an...
Sew The Winter To My Skin is a South African story that retells the life of John Kepe who was convicted and sentenced to death for murder in Cradock in 1952. In the film, producer Layla Swart and writer and director Jahmil XT Qubeka tell...
Yi Li Da SA Manufacturing was established in 2015 and is the sole manufacturer of the popular polyester (mink) blanket products in South Africa. Yi Li Da SA was set up by their Chinese parent company to take advantage of the opportunity to replace imports....
Musina Intermodal Terminal is implementing an intermodal transport logistics terminal in Musina, Limpopo. The terminal, which has created 72 new direct jobs, is strategically located within the Musina industrial area that contains existing road-rail link infrastructure and is suited for an inland logistics hub. The...
Thakadu Metals Beneficiation was founded in 2015 by Ruli Diseko, a young Black Industrialist, and created 165 direct jobs. Diseko’s experience in the mining and metals industry stems from his employment at Lonmin, the Department of Mineral Resources and as a commodities trader. Having identified...
Limited (IDC) acquired 26% ordinary shareholding in Pretoria based aviation company Aerosud (Pty) Ltd, as a strategic investment in the aviation industry. In addition to this, IDC invested R33 million to purchase another 12% shareholding in Aerosud for the Bellabee (Pty) Ltd Workers Trust, which...
There is a popular saying in the world of business and entrepreneurship, that overnight success takes ten years. One small business owner who can attest to this is none other than Paseka Lesolang, the 29 year old innovator and founder of Wagienience, a techno company...