CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 78

ENACTUS
“I was telling a family member in Pretoria
about the work that we do as Enactus,
and she told me about Busi,” explains
Makuwaza. “So I called Busi up and told her
about what we do and she was very keen
to meet.”
Makuwaza brought the co-op to the
attention of the UKZN Enactus team
to which she belongs, and they saw
immediately that the co-op’s ambitions
fell squarely in line with their commitment
to entrepreneur development projects
that satisfy the triple bottom line: “people,
planet, profit” The Enactus students
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believed that they could help the Mophela
co-op to move away from subsistence
farming and become commercial, profitdriven farmers.

ENACTUS IN ACTION

Enactus (formerly Students in Free
Enterprise (SIFE)) is an international nonprofit organisation that describes itself
as “bringing together student, academic
and business leaders who use the power
of entrepreneurial action to improve the
quality of life and standard of living for
people in need” The UKZN Enactus team
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have consistently dominated the national
annual showcase of projects over the past
ten years, and have represented Enactus
Sou