The aim of the event is to have a discussion around entrepreneurship in the university environment, we would like to explore and hear from the entrepreneurs who have started their businesses while they were students about how they managed their studies and entrepreneurs. The event will also bring some discussions around the challenges that the entrepreneurs have faced while they were at the varsity and how they overcame such kind of challenges. We have invited Khaya Ngwenya who have done lot of Social activities during his study time at the University of Johannesburg to unpack the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and also he will share with us the solutions that can be brought to accelerate entrepreneurship at the university level.
University of Johannesburg
Lecture
Adelaide Sheik has been exposed to the corporate and non-profit (NPO) sector in managerial positions for the first 21 years of her working experience.
She started at the University of Johannesburg as a Stakeholder Manager in 2012 and took on the role of Acting HOD for the Centre of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy (CSESE) until 2016. Social entrepreneurship is an em…
Adelaide Sheik has been exposed to the corporate and non-profit (NPO) sector in managerial positions for the first 21 years of her working experience.
She started at the University of Johannesburg as a Stakeholder Manager in 2012 and took on the role of Acting HOD for the Centre of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Economy (CSESE) until 2016. Social entrepreneurship is an emerging field of study and is also a growing phenomenon in South Africa, which placed the CSESE in an interesting position. During this period her daily obligations were the design of curriculum for in-class and e-learning, lecturing on short learning programmes, stakeholder liaison, community engagement activities, managing the business incubator support centre and also managing commissioned research. More recently, the CSESE merged with the CSBD to form the UJ Centre for Entrepreneurship, where she assists with special projects which includes social, township and informal entrepreneurship. She recently joined the Business Management team lecturing Entrepreneurship on fulltime programmes and is also involved in the academic coordination for the continuous education programmes (CEPs).The involvement with an EU funded project, focusing on Social innovation -Digital Story Telling has afforded exposure to project implementation and the networking with international universities in growing social value creation.
Adelaide is also a social entrepreneur and a co-founder of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda Resource Centre (NPO) in North West Province, one of the poorer provinces focusing on youth development and enterprise development and serves on the board for BigFish Film School (NPO) based in Capet Town.
She holds the following qualifications: Credit Management Dip (UNISA), Project Management Dip (Damelin Business College), Advanced Social Entrepreneurship Diploma (University of Pretoria - GIBS), Asset Based Community Development – Fundamentals and Train-the-Trainer (GIBS / COADY Canadian Institute), MBA (Mancosa Business School), Business Incubation Management (University of Johannesburg). Currently, in the progress with PHD studies – in Organisational Effectiveness in Social Enterprises. Adelaide is married with two adult children.
Youth With Open Minds
CEO
Outreach Foundation
Drama Facilitator/MC
Patrick K Ngwenya is a B.com finance graduate from the University of Johannesburg. He started his Philanthropic journey in 2014, while he was still a full time University student, he managed to bake 67 muffins for 67 underprivileged children that resides in Afrikkatikkun (charity organization in Braampark) alongside with the assistance of his friends Brighton, Palesa and Loria.
he is the co-founder and CEO of a non-profit organization Youth With Open Minds ( YWOM) NPC, and its aim is to curb all the education, leadership, arts and entrepreneurship challenges that exist in South Africa. In his organization he teaches the unemployed youth how to recycle old books into book crafts that they can sell in order to receive an income and also assists the High School Children with career guidance. He is currently working on a GBV project, which launched in the month of August ( Women's month).
During his spare time he participates in charity runs e.g. 18 km JURA run 2019, 702 Walk the Talk to name a few and volunteers his time to help the other social charities, in cleaning and serving the food to the needy.
Patrick's most striking moment was during his final year of his studies in 2016, when he was successfully trained as a mentor and he was part of the Jozi-Digital Ambassadors program. This was a project of City of Johannesburg that empowered 1800+ unemployed youth to provide services as micro enterprises. The youth were contracted over a 12-week period to train Jozi residents on how to connect to the City's Free Wi-Fi and utilize online services on the Maru-A-Jozi Portal. They were then compensated for each successful resident they train. He won the best mentor award, because his team generated over 150% revenue before the end of the 12-week period.
Furthermore, last year in 2019 Patrick and his teammates proved their innovative skills by participating in the Fak'ugesi Blockchain Hack-a-thon and also winning R60000 prize to support their idea. This Hack-a-thon was supported by the German Cooperation Implemented by GIZ and in partnership with Animation SA and City of Johannesburg. The team developed a services idea to automate royalty distributions to artists using Block chain and Automation solutions tied to smart contracting.
Lulo Simoyi is a creative female artist, feminist and a social entrepreneur. She won various dramatic arts wards during her learnership at Academy of Duma Ndlovu and she's currently a drama Facilitator and MC at Outreach Foundation NPC since 2016. She started her radio personality job at Fashion District in 2016 and later on started her Gender based Violence activism in 2019. She was one of the models who participated in the Art Against GBV Project and furthermore took part in another gender based project this year 2020, which was published on behance (YWOM NPC GBV). She also has her own food business Lulaws Kota Hub, and she makes mouth watering Kotas that are unique (a mixture of African and Urban flavors).
During her spare time she volunteers her time to facilitate drama classes at non-profit organizations, participates in giving food and clothing to the needy. She enjoys taking nature walks, traveling, good dining and podcasting.
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