Building it for Success

About Building it for Success

Caiphas speaks to Africa’s entrepreneurs who share their inspiring stories of how they transformed their ideas and passion into profitable businesses, against all odds. He unpacks their journeys, their downs and ups so that through their experiences and the lessons learnt, we can all be inspired.

Publisher

Caiphas Muyambo

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Sept 2020

Latest episode

13 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Feb 2021

   Founder & CEO of WM Physiotherapists: Wanda Mhobo, South Africa

   Wanda Mhobo is the Founder & CEO of WM Physiotherapists, a home-based Physiotherapy practice in South Africa that focuses on treating patients in the comfort of their homes. In the last 12 years, Wanda has treated several patients including high profile leaders and business people. After his former employer rejected the home-based physiotherapy idea, and later some big investors turning his business idea down, Wanda decided he will not give up on an idea he believed in. Today, he runs a successful home-based physio practice in 4 provinces in South Africa - and growing into the rest of South Africa and abroad.

2. 

   6 Feb 2021

   Founder & CEO of Shava Group: Simbarashe Mabasha

   Simbarashe Mabasha is the Founder and CEO of Shava Group, an Agriculture commodity trading business. Simbarashe pursued a number of initiatives, from minerals trading to establishing a media company. He shares his journey about how failing never stopped him as an entrepreneur and we also get to know about his key learnings over the years. Simbarashe owned and managed an online based Fast Moving Consumable Goods (FMCG) and Minerals Trading company. He continued his entrepreneurial path to the Media industry culminating in the formation of Afrikan Dust Media Group (ADMG). ADMG was a vertically integrated Media Company focused on redesigning and re-shaping the African media landscape. He was the Co-Founder and Director at ADMG and the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Wabona, one of Africa’s first video streaming services focusing on African content. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Shava Group SA, a company focused on Agri-Business Consultancy and Commodity Trading in Sub-Saharan Africa. Shava Group SA is built on the founding premise that Africa is the future of food and thus must play a positive and constructive role in helping build the best farms, farmers and agri-businesses that can tackle the challenge ahead. Some of his interests include being a writer/poet and has written for online blogs like South African news blog In The News. He is also a public speaker who speaks on a range of subjects including social issues, entrepreneurship and media. He has spoken at Sri Lanka Unites, Global Unites, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and Africa Cast. In 2010 Simbarashe was invited to speak at the Sri Lanka Unites Conference about Racial Reconciliation. Simbarashe graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Law in 2005 at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. While at UCT, Simbarashe was Vice-President of the Law Students Council and Deputy-Speaker of the UCT Students Parliament in 2002.

3. 

   30 Jan 2021

   Founder and CEO of SirSam Co: Sam Maloka, South African

   Sam Maloka, is the founder & CEO of SirSam Co., a South African company that focuses on minerals trading, Farm security and Skills development training. Sam tells me about the importance of converting every good idea you may have into a business. You don’t need to have all the skills for every idea, but you just need to have the mind of an entrepreneur. Sam Maloka is an economist by profession, having studied Bachelor of Commerce (in Economics) and Master’s Degree in Development from the University of Limpopo, completed in 1998 and 2006 respectively. He also has a Master’s Degree in Business Leadership from the University of South Africa (UNISA), Graduate School of Leadership, obtained in 2018. Born in Polokwane, in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Based in South Africa’s economic hub – _Johannesburg, he has 5 years of running his own businesses and over 15 years as an economist and International Marketing Manager for the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA), which was the period before starting his own ventures.

4. 

   23 Jan 2021

   Co-founder of MORA Ecological Services: Mokgatla Molepo, South Africa

   Mokgatla Molepo is the Co-Founder of Mora Ecological Services, a consulting firm that focuses on biodiversity studies and Environmental Impact Assessments in South Africa. Prior to establishing MORA Ecological Services, Mokgatla gained experience as a Research Assistant at University of Venda, Zoological Systematics Technician at South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and also as an Ecologist at Plantago Lanceolata (Pty) Ltd and as a sub-contracted Avifaunal surveyor for Arcus Consultancy working on Wind Energy Farm projects in Eastern Cape. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the Department of Environmental, Water and Earth Sciences at the Tshwane University of Technology. Mokgatla holds a Master of Science in  Zoology with a specialization in Ornithology from Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.

5. 

   9 Jan 2021

   Turning passion for food into a profitable business: Conversation with Siba Mtongana, Founder of The Siba Co.

   Siba Mtongana is a multi award-winning celeb chef, mom, author, and founder of the The Siba Co. Through her global work, she earned the status of global food icon and has reached over 135 countries worldwide, and 60 million homes in the USA through the Cooking Channel alone. With so much under her belt including being one of the most in-demand celebrity chefs on an array of local and international programmes, at food festivals the world over and not forgetting on glossy magazine covers, it is hard to sum up just how barricade-breaking this down-to-earth chef with her humble, Mdantsane, Eastern Cape roots has been. Some of her successes include: She was selected to be a case study for the Harvard University Business School - the most prestigious university globally. In 2019, The Siba Co was hand-picked by the presidency to culinary direct and curate the VIP menu for the inauguration of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, serving 450 guests, including heads of states, former presidents kings, queens and global business moguls. In 2015, the best-selling cookbook ever in its retail class, My Table, was published and marketed by The Siba Co. In 2017, My Table won two prestigious awards at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in China. Siba was the first South African ever to win the Special Award of the Jury for the legacy her book leaves and pop culture impact it has in her beloved home country. Her plethora of awards – Siba has won 5 US Film and Television Awards and 4 Awards locally. Siba’s has such an inspiring story, showing us how one can transform their passion into a successful business.

6. 

   19 Dec 2020

   Conversation with CEO & Co-Founder of Ecokaya: Tânia Tomé, Mozambique

   Tânia Tomé is a multifaceted international award winner, economist, entrepreneur, TV personality, coach and author. As chairwoman of Ecokaya, she has become a sought-after international coach and motivational speaker who has developed her own inspirational method and concept called Succenergy to empower people, entrepreneurs and leaders. The method is used in various trainings, coaching, workshops, and lectures presented by her company to companies and public and private organizations in several countries, such as Uganda, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Rwanda, USA, Swaziland and Mozambique, among others. To date, more than five million people have enjoyed the warmth, motivation and transformational influence of her business, personal development events, lectures, coaching sessions, television and radio programs and appearances, books and public events. She has more than 13 years experience in the bank industry and a degree in Economics and a Postgraduate degree in Management Control from Portuguese Catholic University, Certified in Entrepreneurship and Investment Projects by Certform in Portugal, Certified in Mining Projects Financial Evaluation by IETEC - Brazil, and Certified in Business and Entrepreneurship from Notre Dame University/Yali Program. Tomé is Academic Award Winner by Portugal-Africa Foundation, Chaired by Former Portugal President Mário Soares, she is also Merit Diploma by Mozambican Presidency and Young African Leader (Yali) by Barack Obama Initiative and Mandela Fellowship. She was honoured as one of the “100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Under 40 in the World”. Her work has been embraced by personalities, billionaires, millionaires, state presidents, ministries, ambassadors, and many celebrities and CEOs around the world. Connect with Tânia Tomé http://www.taniatome.com (http://www.taniatome.com/) http://www.linkedin.com/in/taniatome (http://www.linkedin.com/in/taniatome) http://www.taniatome.com/ (http://www.taniatome.com/) http://www.instagram.com/taniatomeofficial (http://www.instagram.com/taniatomeofficial)

7. 

   5 Dec 2020

   Transforming Smallholder Farming in South Africa: Zamokuhle Thwala, Founder & CEO of Agrikool

   Zamokuhle Thwala, is the Co-founder & CEO at AgriCool Finance. He owns start-up that helps smallholder farmers to access the market for their farm produce and also micro-financing opportunities to support crop production. Through their business, they intend to eradicate exploitation of small holder farmers, improve food quality and empower farmers to improve their profit margins and household income. Zamokuhle graduated with an Agriculture Engineering degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and because of his passion for entrepreneurship and also that he was a small holder farmer while studying, he immediately, after his studies, launched Agrikool as a business that solves some of the challenges that he himself encountered as a farmer. Zamokuhle believes in making farming cool and fashionable. Visit http://agrikool.com (http://agrikool.com/) or follow Zamokuhle on Linkedin linkedin.com/in/zamokuhle-thwala-021a30176 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zamokuhle-thwala-021a30176) to learn more.

8. 

   7 Nov 2020

   Founder of PEM Afurika: Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase, South Africa

   Pie-Pacifique Kabalira-Uwase is the Founder and Director at PEM Afurika, a management consulting company aiming at helping entrepreneurs to adopt a problem-based approach to business development. He is also an Associate Consultant with IDG South Africa, and a Consulting Partner with Whitten and Roy Partnership, both companies with global reach, where he focuses on people-related business solutions. Pie-Pacifique’s journey includes growing up in Rwanda in tumultuous times that claimed members of his family. His father, a political prisoner in the eighties, died in 1989 when Pie-Pacifique was only 8 years old. Due to his father’s political history, Pie-Pacifique’s family were among those who were supposed to be killed in the 1994 Genocide, narrowly surviving several attempts. Post 1994, Pie-Pacifique became his family’s breadwinner at 14, before finding his way back to school, which, against all odds, he completed with distinction. In 2001, he embarked on a challenging and uncertain journey which would lead him to South Africa, beginning his life as a refugee car guard in Durban. In 2002, odds against him, he enrolled at the then University of Natal, where he was awarded later the MR Scholarship upon completion of his degree in Physics. Pie-Pacifique started his professional career with in banking as a Business and Systems Analyst in 2008. In 2011, he was appointed Account Executive at Avocado Vision, a company that specializes in large scale community and workplace training programs, including Enterprise Development, where he initiated and managed projects that touched thousands of people in marginalized communities in South Africa, and empowered hundreds of community based micro-enterprises. Since 2013, through his work with IDG and WRP, he delivered Business Leadership Development programs and worked on Business Development projects in numerous countries in all four corners of Africa, as well as in South East Asia. More recently, Pie-Pacifique was the Head of the Business School of the Foundation for Professional Development, a private institution of higher learning based in Pretoria. Besides his Business and Leadership Development activities, Pie-Pacifique is currently a Council Member of the Jesuit Refugee Service-Southern Africa, as well as an international Key-Note and Motivational Speaker.

9. 

   31 Oct 2020

   Luxury African Fashion Design Business: Antonio Macheve Jr., Founder of XIPIXI, Mozambique

   Antonio Macheve Jr. is the founder of XIPIXI, a Luxury fashion design brand. He has an interesting story about how he started his business. After coming back to Maputo from New York he tried to look for a job for 2 years without success. One day he made his own pair of shorts using about $3 and that opened the door for his fashion design business. Antonio shares his journey and how he is building his business for success. XIPIXI brand specialises in the production of top quality menswear fashion. The brand is inspired by Rachel Zoe’s idea that “Fashion is saying who you are without having to speak”. His luxury products have now been sold in 12 countries around the world in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa. XIPIXI has showcased collections at Oxford Town Hall in the United Kingdom, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Cape Town and Johannesburg by African Fashion International and South African Fashion Week. The brand is widely known for its famous bow-tie, which has been worn and endorsed by A-list celebrities in Hollywood during the 2015 Emmy Awards Visit https://www.xipixi-official.com or Instagram to learn more about XIPIXI.

10. 

    24 Oct 2020

    Monetising your air travel: Waleed Abdou, Co-Founder & CEO of Airgiftr, Egypt

    Waleed Abdou is the Co-Founder & CEO of Airgiftr, a business where an air traveller is matched with a person in Egypt who requires a product from abroad. The traveler is the airgiftr and gets to make some cash when he/she arrives in Egypt. As a traveller or airgiftr, it also just improves your overall travel experience into Egypt. Waleed transformed an idea into an actual viable business. Visit https://airgiftr.com to learn more about Waleed's business.

11. 

    17 Oct 2020

    Protecting Endangered Gorillas: Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Co-Founder & CEO of CTPH, Uganda

    Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka is the Founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an award-winning NGO that protects endangered gorillas and other wildlife through One Health approaches. Through her organisation, they are coming up with modern ways of protecting mountain Gorillas in Uganda with very close collaboration with communities that are living around the habitats where these Gorillas are found. She shares her inspiring journey building a successful NGO that protects wildlife. Follow her on twitter @DoctorGladys and @GCCoffee1

12. 

    20 Sept 2020

    Trailer: The Entrepreneurs of Africa, Building it for Success with Caiphas

    Africa has so much wealth of knowledge and resources, and there are plenty of people who are leading in front to drive Africa's progress. My passion has always been to unleash the leadership and entrepreneurial wisdom in Africa through the sharing of inspiring real life success stories to light up the way and inspire many others in Africa and around the world. From 17 October 2020, I bring you some exceptional stories and interviews of executives and entrepreneurs and you will hear how they are successfully building their business or careers against all odds. I unpack their journeys, so that through their experiences and the lessons learnt, we can be inspired never to give up on our own dreams. This show is the voice of those who are making it big in Africa and it is also for those who dare to dream.

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