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ENACTUS
students, experienced businesspeople
and community entrepreneurs see
opportunities and work in partnership to
solve business and social problems.
Perhaps such an approach can start to
put in place some of those missing rungs in
the “ladder out of poverty” for communities
in need. At the same time, it encourages
the Enactus students involved to develop
the applied knowledge, soft skills and
practical experience that employers
typically lament is missing from university
graduates’ workplace preparation.
For Mntungwa, the linkages are clear.
Her leadership of the co-op has inspired
her to apply to study project management.
“Our goal is to have our own farm where
we will be planting, packing our product
and selling to the market. I need to know
how to be a good leader for tomorrow.”
Teaching innovative problem-solving
to support entrepreneurial thinking —
through a productive connection of
people, knowledge and resources — is
encapsulated in the Enactus philosophy:
“Tell me and I will forget; show me and I
might remember; involve me and I will
understand.”
Enactus UKZN
Luvuyo Gushu
(Mophela project manager)
[email protected]
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