Event: Lessons in Harnessing Entrepreneurialism in the Informal Sector

Insights from the life and remarkable journey of a modern South African hero whose multi-dimensional life spans the nations struggle, birth and continuing efforts to reorient its political economy; with Dr Thami Mazwai - Director, Centre for Small Business Development at the University of Johannesburg

The Centre for Entrepreneurship @ Wits Business School has initiated a series that affords individuals, institutions and communities, with exceptional track records of entrepreneurial effort, the opportunity to share the story of this journey. Held on the last Thursday evening of each month, the EHS is also a platform to demonstrate how entrepreneurialism, and the speaker's experience in particular, might address pressing socio-economic issues in (South) Africa.

Dr. Thami Mazwai is currently the Director of the Centre for Small Business Development at the University of Johannesburg. He is a former journalist with the Sowetan and then headed Mafube Publishing, the first black owned magazine publishing house. He now heads the Centre for Small Business Development at the University of Johannesburg. His area of expertise is on small business support. He is a former member of the National Small Business Advisory Council and a former director of the Small Enterprise Development Agency.

Cost: R150 pp