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SA Teen Entrepreneur Foundation, an NGO which creates a platform for teenagers to turn entrepreneurial ideas into real-life businesses, will open their Spring Academy doors to teens this October. The five-day workshop, which will run from 3 to 7 October, at the Belmont Conference Centre in Rondebosch, will equip youth with the business skills to make running their own business a reality.

Teens will explore concepts of innovation, business idea generation, team work building, business planning, marketing flow and branding. The workshop’s aim is to improve entrepreneurial success amongst teens and in the long run to catalyse job creation and youth employment opportunities – an imperative in an economy where over 50% of youth are unemployed.  

“There is an abnormally high unemployment rate amongst young people in South Africa, entrepreneurship offers a solution to this problem,” says Founder and Director of SA Teen Entrepreneur Foundation, Lydia Zingoni. “Young people need to be equipped with the skills to empower themselves, we need to move away from a cap in hand, sense of entitlement mentality.”

The workshop will include mentoring by entrepreneur, author and songwriter Peter Greenwall, marketing expert, entertainer and top magician Marcel Oudejans and entrepreneurial business coach Bruce Wade.

In true entrepreneurial spirit, participants will compete to win R5 000 for the best business plan pitch, this will be presented to a panel of industry professionals at the end of the course.

For more information on the SA Teen Entrepreneur Foundation and the Spring Academy visit www.teenentrepreneur.co.za or join the Teen Entrepreneur page on Facebook. Teens can register online or visit events@teenentrepreneur.co.za for more information.

Event details:

Date: 3 to 7 October

Time: 9am to 3pm

Venue: Belmont Conference Centre, Belmont Road, Rondebosch

Cost: R750 per participant (lunch, snacks and refreshments included)

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Founder and Director, Lydia Zingoni

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