Founder and Chairman | Executive | Imvelo Food Services
Durban | 2010 - present

Other

Imvelo Food Services has embarked on an ambition to provide valuable catering,canteen and facilities management operations.

Our company employs only the best chefs and catering including canteen management specialists.

Since then our services have expanded to include corporate canteens and functions management, tertiary institutions, and school feeding scheme(School Nutrition).

Our policy of controlled steady growth means we continue to expand while Imvelo Food Services, continues to guarantee clients a return on their investment, in terms of their outsoruced operation.

We believe that our success is due to our commitment to provide increased return, and customer satisfaction through a range of nourishing, appetising and quality foods within reasonable budgets"

Founder and Chairman | Executive | Mpilende Foods (Pty) Ltd
Durban, South Africa | 2008 - present

Consumer Goods, Fashion and Retail

Mpilende Foods (Pty) Ltd is a global corporation that specialises in the manufacturing of FORTIFIED FOODS, that have been certified to be compliant with most of the international quality management accreditations and food safety standards including ISO9001:2008, FDA among others.

Nqabakazulu Comprehensive High School, Durban (1994)

Corporate Governance - National Business Initiatives

Gauteng | 2004 - 2004

Certificate - Corporate Governance

Attended a general business development course in corporate governance that covered :-

- Human Resources Management
- Finance Management
- Business Administration and Management
- International Business Relations among others

Ntuzuma College of Education

Durban | 1995 - 1997

Senior Primary Teachers Diploma - English and Business Studies

University of Berdfordshire (UK)

United Kingdom

MBA - in current pursuance - MBA- Entrepreneurship

Best Black Owned and Managed Business of the Year | KZN - Department of Economic Development | 2012

Our company has recently been honoured with the above referred award as one of the pioneers for professional management and operation of businesses in KZN, in the black ownership category.

Africa SMME of the Year | Africa Growth Institute | 2009

Our company was honoured with the Africa SMME of the Year for 2009, among more than 15 other award contenders from all over the continent.

Waging War Against Malnutrition and Over-Nutrition | World Congress on Nutrition (Paper on Nutrition) | 2010

"PROMOTION OF FOOD FORTIFICATION"

Big Break Legacy Entrepeneurship Competition | Big Break Legacy Entrepeneurship Competition | 2012

I was part of the Top 12 chosen from more than 25 000 hopefuls for the BBL TV Show (with a R5m investment prize) which has been airing on SABC 2 on thursdays at 19h30pm.

ISO9001:2008 | Gauteng | 2009

Our company has been certified to be compliant with the requirements for the ISO9001: 2008 certification, which is one of the international quality management system accreditations.

International Who's Who in the World | Abroad

Biographee on the International Who's Who in the World - 2011 (28th Edition), which is a humbling gesture and motivation for me and many other young and aspirant entrepreneurs coming after me.

United Nations

Associate Member, 2010 - present

United Nations Systems Standing Committee on Nutrition :Nutrition and Climate Change eGroup.

Consumer Goods Council of South Africa

Member, 2009 - present

Our company is an active member of the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa, adhering to the standards set out by the organisation for all member-organisations playing in the FMCG space.

KZN Rural Farmers Association (NPO)

Founding Chairperson, 2012 - present

KZN Rural Farmers Association is a rural based registered Not-for-Profit Organization (NPO) registered in terms of Act. 71 of 1997.

The organisation has been established to link all rural based farmers with government support mechanisms, and donors for agriculture development as is one of the major economic drivers for food security.

Civil society is destined to play a more important role in a new political and economic context from now on.

To play this role it needs to organize itself and build up its capacity, which was weakened by its being kept out of decision-making organs, and its political and economic marginalization during the past decades.

The professionalization of rural farming is one action that contributes toward privatization and the strengthening of civil society.

This objective is to give farmers the place they deserve in civil society, in easing their access to the economic process, to markets from which they were excluded, and in integrating their activities into the general economy.