The business incubation story goes beyond physical infrastructure. For 3 to 12 months, incubatees receive practical, hands-on mentoring and advice from experts in small-business development and, often, in specific product or service segments. For a further 24 months, incubatees continue to receive hands-off but no less practical support from specialists hired and paid for by Sasol.
Incubatees come from extremely diverse backgrounds and produce an astonishing array of products and services. What unites them, however, is the burning desire to create sustainable, job-creating enterprises of their own.
One of these driven self-starters is 32-year-old Mosa Mokoena whose business, Movidna Services, employs 13 people. Nine of those are skilled technicians who Mosa daily sends out into the fields, into the manufacturing and industrial plants of clients including ArcelorMittal South Africa, to do vital service, engineering and maintenance work.
Why was this young self-starter so determined to do his own thing (his multiple qualifications include an SMME management certificate from Unisa)? “I wanted to build a legacy,” he replies when asked this question in his new office at the SBI.
I wanted to build a legacy. Big companies like Sasol and Murray & Roberts were started by people. Like me. I want to keep growing this business, by innovating and doing things better and better for our clients. Sasol is helping me, in many ways, to realise that dream, to build my legacy.
MOSA MOKOENA – FOUNDER OF MOVIDNA SERVICES
