Famous for running competent fi nancial and construction enterprises, Fiswayo Financial Services, under his empirical Fiswayo Holdings, is an addition that already has branches in Ehlanzeni District Municipality and is headquartered in Mbombela.
Fiswayo Holdings operates more than fi ve business enterprises.
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“Our primary aim, when establishing Fiswayo Funeral Services, was to create a space through business where job opportunities can be created and community social investments can be implemented,” Nziyane said.
“I was so surprised to learn that the latest statistics places our province second in highest rate of unemployment in the whole country. I wanted to do something about it to curb the alarming stats,” he said.
Fiswayo Funeral Services, established in 2020, employs 16 people and if things go accordingly, lots of people are going to be employed and local projects will be supported through it. To date the business has supported initiatives and projects such as Mpumalanga Gospel Music Awards, Lungile Mhango Foundation, Sitimile Disabled Centre and Hope of Glory Aerobics, to name but a few.
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Nziyane said his business offers affordable burial costs and funeral policies.
“Our aim is to give assistance where is due. That’s the reason we are always available to render our services to our community. We are a very listening business enterprise and we always ensure that no matter what our clients get assisted,” he disclosed.
He said that the funeral services business has its challenges and is often stigmatised by the community that is intended to serve. “Some people associate the funeral services business with killings. Once you say I wanna start a funeral parlour business, people start to say that he or she is going to kill us to get his or her parlour operational,” he said.
“So if you are in this industry that is dominantly run by old people and associated with killing myths, you need to start educating people how important it is to have a funeral policy and a parlour which is in your proximity. The community needs to understand that this is established to assist them in times of bereavement, not to kill them,” he said.
Fiswayo Funeral Services has introduced an exclusive media-related funeral policy which caters, among others, artists, writers, journalists and so on.
“We are the only one who offers this exclusive policy package here. We want to ensure that our media personalities are catered for,” he said.
Nziyane is a alumnus of Mayibuye Secondary School in Daantie, Pienaar, and a Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) graduate.
He began working as an admin clerk in governmental departments before he ventured into finance business in 2008. He was also a member of gospel icon, Sipho Makhabane.
“I used to sing and play musical instruments when I was with the Big Fish,” he said, referring to Makhabane.
