TEG JOURNEYS Alleschia (Manufacturer) “I bought a beverage business but little did I know, it was failing. I feared that I had made a terrible mistake and it would haunt me every night. I started my business from washing clothes and felt that now I was in over my head. The programme came at the right time in my life. At first I thought that money would solve the problems in the business, but it was knowing how to sell that changed things. We were averaging R14,000 pm month and we are now above R100,000 and the market is much bigger than we thought. Today, I can say I don’t regret buying this business.”
Matsidisho (Agri Logistics) “I always had a truck but it was just standing there, things have been hard. It has just been me alone holding on. Now I have regular customers that are calling me to deliver their livestock to auctions and I can boast that I have a positive bank balance. Enough that I have my first employee, now I am a real boss ”
Kealeboga (Biodiesel Producer) “My dream for biodiesel was almost 6 years old. The minute I joined the programme there was excellence, I was welcomed well and got encouragement from the interview. I was pushed immediately from the interview to go and visit my idea again. We knocked on so many doors which did not happen. This was such a breakthrough. Today I have my own plant that converts used cooking oil into diesel. We were able to develop a market with the farmers in the community where I grew up.”
Delvin (Driving School) “I have mostly been training Code 8 and 10 drivers for nearly a decade. My income was ok, nothing exciting, it was enough to pay my staff – but not every month. This programme got to me change my relationship with my business, it pushed me out of the car, onto the phone and into the light. We now are fully booked and I need to get more vehicles and instructors to keep up with the demand. I am now going to give advanced driver training and will be expanding into Code 14 training too.”
