MIC Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.

Our investment focus is innovative and highly disruptive black-owned South African businesses across diverse high-growth sectors.

Click here to apply. 

Overview of your opportunity

Applications are now open for the SAB Foundation Tholoana Enterprise Programme. 

Closing date

Seda Automotive Technology Centre (SATeC) is a business incubator for the automotive sector and offers entrepreneurs in the sector an environment which nutures the development of their business to the point of sustainability. It aims to stimulate the participation of SMMEs (Small Micro and Medium Enterprises, both formal and informal) and emerging suppliers in the automotive supply chain. Through the process of enterprise creation, support and development, the Centre offers a one-stop service support system to start-up companies and entrepreneurs seeking to become suppliers of products and

Rail Manufacturing Centre of Entrepreneurship & Rapid Incubator  (RMCERI) is a fully-fledged Incubator hosted by Tshwane University of Technology and supported by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA). The vision of RMCERI is to be as the leading centre for entrepreneurship in the transport manufacturing value chain.

Services

  • Incubation
  • Enterprise and Supplier Development
  • Enterprise Development
  • Training

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) is a South African-based agency established primarily to address challenges faced by the nation’s youth. 

NYDA Products and Services 

The National Empowerment Fund (the NEF) is a driver and thought-leader in promoting and facilitating black economic participation by providing financial and non-financial support to black-owned and managed businesses, and by promoting a culture of savings and investment among black people. The NEF’s vision is to become the leading provider of innovative transformation solutions for an economically inclusive South Africa.

Small Enterprise Finance Agency's (SEFA) core function is to foster the establishment, development and growth of SMMEs and cooperatives and contribute toward poverty alleviation, job creation and economic growth.

Our task is to provide SMMEs and cooperatives throughout South Africa with simple access to finance in an efficient and sustainable manner, by:

  • Delivering wholesale and direct lending credit facilities or products
  • Providing credit guarantees to SMMEs and cooperatives
  • Supporting the institutional strengthening of financial intermediaries, so that they can effectively assist small

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth in South Africa.  The IDC funding promotes regional development and integration, economic empowerment of communities and growing black industrialists. 

IDC funds the following sectors; 

  • Energy 
  • Automotive & Transport Equipment
  • Chemicals, Medical & Industrial Mineral Products
  • Machinery, Equipment & Electronics
  • Mining & Metals
  • Media & Audio-Visual
  • Textiles & Wood Products
  • Tourism & Services
Overview of your opportunity

The Township and Rural Empowerment Programmes (TREP) supports informal, micro and small enterprises and cooperatives in the rural and township economies. TREP provides blended finance and business development support to various sectors with a view of promoting their participation in the mainstream economy.

The Scheme is aimed at supporting small enterprises to:

  • participate in the rebuilding and restructuring of the economy in townships and rural areas;

  • necessitated by the emergence of the new world order;