CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 82

ENACTUS
farming business can filter into the wider
community. The original women members
have welcomed the involvement of the
younger members, and have been busy
passing on the organisational and technical
skills taught to them by the UKZN Enactus
students.
The youth, in turn, are eager to share
what they have experienced too. “If other
young people want to know how to do
what we do, we will teach them. That’s the
aim,” explains Sbongiseni enthusiastically.
“Hopefully this project will grow, and other
people from our community will actually
see that there is hope in trying new things,
rather than going out there and looking
for a job or depending on other people to
move ahead in life.”
It
is
often
debated
whether
entrepreneurship and innovative thinking
can really be taught. The success of the
various Enactus interventions in South
Africa and in 35 other countries suggests
that perhaps they can be — to both the
university students and the people they
assist. It is sometimes difficult to judge
who benefits the most, as profound
lessons are learned by everyone when

“Tell me and I will forget;
show me and I might
remember; involve me and I
will understand.”
— Enactus philosophy

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