| ####

11 / 32

11 / 32

N

gwenya wears many hats as a businessman,

philanthropist, and professional engineering

technologist. Ngwenya has donated his time, funding,

and expertise to help others, always on behalf of

unemployed youth. Ngwenya is a patron who seek to create

job creators dedicated to seeking solutions to the South African

problems of unemployment. Alongside his role in mentoring

upcoming entrepreneurs, he has achieved plenty of success

as an entrepreneur and business leader in his own right. After

graduating with a Diploma in Civil engineering at Mangosuthu

University of Technology in 2005, his dreams materialised when

he decided seize opportunities that had prominence in putting

him at a better chance of being a job creator.

“My target is to create employment for 20, 000 people by end

of the 2021, by giving upcoming entrepreneurs mentorships

and every support they need to start their businesses,

Ngwenya said’

Ngwenya serves asManaging Principal of a couple of business

ventures ranging from engineering consultations, fruits,

vegetables, animal farming, nursery and coal distribution that

has over 100 employees spread across the country.

Ngwenya is one of MUT alumni entrepreneurs under 40,

running multimillion rand companies in South Africa. Ngwenya

believes in his ideas and is putting all efforts to change the

South African narrative by challenging the mind-set and

approach towards achieving economic freedom that solve

economic issues that South Africa is facing and worsened

further the state of economic affairs after the Covid-19

Pandemic.

He calls support from individuals and business owners to

help Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME’S) as he

believes working together can eradicate poverty and uplift

the standards of South African communities. Ngwenya

expresses his gratitude to God for giving him the wisdom and

assigning him to help others

.

MUT ALUMNUS PLAYING A SUBSTANTIAL ROLE IN

GROWING THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY THROUGH

entrepreneurship

For the past 12 years, Mpumelelo Ngwenya has worked tirelessly to expand his businesses while being

an employee and consultant to a few organisations.

M U T A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

9