On 15 November an information workshop was held by Mngoma Empowerment Group (MEG) in partnership with the City of Johannesburg at the Brixton Library.
The session was aimed at small business owners and entrepreneurs and was open to the public.
CEO of MEG, Mzi Mngoma said the workshop hosted was ‘to encourage people in the community to push entrepreneurship, provoke the people attending our workshops to take their businesses seriously, to learn how to sell their businesses – with the different skills they might have and to know their market’.
Mngoma was very eager to teach the practical ways of marketing and how business owners should go about getting clients for their niche as he engaged with the attendees at the library.
MEG was launched in May 2014 and it has trained at schools, NGOs, government departments and churches to name a few, and has assisted these enterprises with life skills programmes, mentoring, coaching and sales training.
They do event management as well and in the South African economic climate, Mngoma said, “It is important for private companies and the public sector to come together in partnership for economic empowerment especially for the youth, such as our company and also what the City is doing.”
Mngoma said public spaces such as libraries, allow the opportunity for larger audiences to learn new ways of business and entrepreneurship.
The workshop quickly became crowded and attendees showed their motivation by engaging in everything new they learned about development and entrepreneurship.
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