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Sweet Potato is a small but successful business that I own with six other partners, it was conceptualized as part of our Genesis course in the Entrepreneurship post graduate course at University Of Cape Town in February 2012

* The IDM Group includes BondBusters, DebtBusters and InsuranceBusters. It is South Africa's leading and largest debt management business. The business specialises in Debt Consolidation, debt management and debt counselling. The group is continuously growing and offers tremendous opportunities for ambitious employees. * Key responsibilities: * Managing client queries and responding within the stipulated turnaround time * Providing solutions and advice to clients financial problems * Debt counselling for clients * Assisting and advising on how better to manage monthly budgets * Managing and supporting clients through the debt management process * Processing new client applications

Topco Media is a leader in South African business-to-business communication, where the primary service and product offerings i.e. Events and Publishing, aim to reward, celebrate and advertise the best in South African business and government; educate; inform; foster relationships; and facilitate understanding on a range of topical issues and subjects. My Role: My role at Topco Media was research and sales based, with targets as the main basis. I would research companies and persuade them to compete within one of the companies main events, for example Top 500 Company awards. The sales aspect included calling clients sourced in as leads, most of these clients had worked with the company before or had heard about the awards ceremonies. Some of the companies did not know about the events or Topco Media. In that case I would brief them & then pitch to them.

My role deals with: Proactively developing, maintaining and expanding an enhanced banking relationship with identified affluent clients through offering holistic professional, reliable and appropriate financial solutions to achieve financial targets.

In 2009 the PDE was awarded the prestigious UCT CHED award for collaborative education practice. Central to the PDE curriculum is its action learning component. On Genesis, in groups of six or seven, students conceive, start up and run their own small businesses for the duration of the academic year. Any profits made by the groups are theirs to keep. First and second semester business-theory courses are tied to Genesis, enabling students to apply taught theory in the real lives of their own businesses. Although the Genesis project is a group project, candidates are also evaluated on an individual basis. Whilst running their own business, students concurrently attend a suite of courses. Courses like Entrepreneurial Strategies, Introduction to Corporate Finance, Business in Context, Marketing and Business Computing. In the second half of the year Courses here include: Management Theory in Practice, The Politics of Enterprise, Effective People Practices, and E- Marketing. Activities and Societies: -Business Partner -Mentor -Charity Volunteeer