THE Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the auspices of its Women in Business Forum is continuing to champion development of rural women entrepreneurs.
The Chamber held The Faranani Rural Women Training Initiative, recently, which is a joint project with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that provides a week-long business skills training programme.
In its second year running, the initiative’s main focus is to equip rural women entrepreneurs with essential business skills to assist them to develop and move their businesses forward. While the focus for the 2014 training was on business planning, the key focus area this year was financial management.
The two-day training was facilitated by Pheneus Thovhakale and Kamugelo Mokoka of Business Skills for South Africa (BSSA).
A total of 30 women received essential business skills training through this initiative. PwC’s partner in charge of the Durban office, Kishore Kooverjee handed the certificates to the women and thanked them for travelling from afar afield as KwaMkhizwana (Cato Ridge) to participate.
