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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.
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