Annually South Africa commemorates Nationwide Youth Day on 16 June.
The theme for this yr is selling sustainable livelihoods by means of the resilience of younger folks for a greater tomorrow. We chat with 5 inspirational younger entrepreneurs positively contributing to the journey and tourism trade in Cape City.
Keron Basson
Founding father of Western Cape Excursions & Transport (WCTT), Keron began his entrepreneurial journey on the age of 20 proper right here in Cape City. With a deep need to create alternatives for others, we meet up with Keron to search out out what drives him as an entrepreneur…
What’s Western Cape Excursions & Transport?
WCTT is a start-up enterprise. Since 2019 our focus has been on offering automobile leases nationally. We’ve got prolonged this focus to incorporate personalised journey and tour experiences in 2022.
We provide tour packages and providers to native travellers and worldwide vacationers together with transfers, chauffeuring, company transport, and nationwide automobile leases.
What motivated you to hitch the journey and tourism trade?
From a younger age I’ve had a burning need to offer dependable transport to the excursions and journey and company industries. I function in numerous different enterprise industries, nevertheless, the will to fulfil my dream of offering dependable transportation to the excursions and journey trade, and to develop the enterprise into the tourism sector has at all times been near my coronary heart.
The place do you see Cape City, as a vacationer vacation spot, within the subsequent 5-10 years?
There may be a lot to have a good time within the Mom Metropolis similar to our folks, our various tradition, our stunning seashores, and fantastic nationwide parks. However we should maintain our stunning metropolis so we are able to proceed to thrive in its glory.
If all key gamers proceed to do their bit, to stay related to the patron, and supply choices that meet their journey and tour wants, Cape City received’t go ‘out of style’ or be faraway from travellers’ bucket lists.
Cape City has a lot to supply, so within the subsequent decade Cape City will nonetheless be the must-go-to vacation spot for travellers.
To seek out out extra about Western Cape Excursions & Transport go to wcbtt.co.za
Busisiwe and Gugu Sibongile Ngcelwane
From Johannesburg, twin sisters Busisiwe and Gugu are co-owners of Twin Enterprise.
Their concept to start out an journey tour enterprise was sparked on a trip to Cape City, when all of the tour operators for quad biking had been absolutely booked. They noticed a spot available in the market, and a month later they had been again in Cape City, and Twin Enterprise was born. That is their story…
What’s Twin Enterprise?
We began Twin Enterprise in 2021. We’re based mostly on the Witzand Aquifer Nature Reserve in Atlantis. We’re the primary female-owned tour operator in Atlantis providing quad biking and sandboarding experiences.
We’re hands-on with every thing. We’re the faces of the model, the mastermind behind it, and the makers of it. We’re the tour operators, instructors, entrepreneurs, and administration.
What motivated you to hitch the journey and tourism trade?
We love travelling, nature and assembly folks from overseas, from completely different walks of life, and making mates with our guests.
Once we joined this trade, we by no means regarded on the odds, we simply regarded on the alternative as simply getting there and making it.
As exhausting as it could appear now, the long run is vivid. And tourism is the best way to go. And we love Cape City.
The place do you see Cape City, as a vacationer vacation spot, within the subsequent 5-10 years?
Cape City is the center of Africa. There’s a lot to do and also you get to see every thing. You may go to the character reserves, to the seashore, and expertise metropolis life. You get to expertise all of it in Cape City. The best way we see Cape City within the subsequent 5 years, we see it on the map. We see it on the prime.
To seek out out extra about Twin Enterprise go to twinventure.co.za
Mzikhona Mgedle
Father to a five-year-old daughter, Mzi grew up in a small village close to the Japanese Cape. He has an enormous ardour for commuter biking and bridging the hole in communities which were remoted for a few years.
After being retrenched, through the hardship of the COVID lockdown, Mzi defied the chances and began the now thriving Langa Bicycle Hub. Right here’s Mzi’s story…
What’s Langa Bicycle Hub?
It’s been nearly two years since we’ve established. We’re an area enterprise, advocating for non-motorised transport, and for public areas to be way more environmentally pleasant and accessible to the group, particularly for youngsters.
We provide bike gross sales and leases, we train folks to cycle, and we provide bicycle excursions in Langa. We’re increasing to a brand new website, a posh indoor centre with a pump monitor, a venture with the Metropolis of Cape City.
What motivated you to hitch the journey and tourism trade?
Once I labored at Open Streets Cape City, we had interns from abroad who needed to benefit from the expertise in Langa. So, I’d take them on casual bicycle excursions. Folks typically requested me why I don’t begin a tourism firm, however my focus was on bicycles and educating folks. It was solely after I began Langa Bicycle Hub that I noticed an enormous hole for bicycle excursions.
The place do you see Cape City, as a vacationer vacation spot, within the subsequent 5-10 years?
I see Langa as probably the most various group in Cape City. It’s a promising group with a wealthy historical past. We appeal to guests from round South Africa, and from all around the world. I see a number of potential for Langa to turn out to be the primary no color zone space for tourism in Cape City, and within the subsequent 5 years I see a number of optimistic issues for tourism in Cape City.
To seek out out extra about Langa Bicycle Hub go to fb.com/Langabicyclehub
Mbasa Siyaka
Obsessed with job creation, Mbasa began working within the household enterprise as a safety guard, then a runner, earlier than turning into the supervisor. Now at 23 years outdated, he’s the director of Mzansi Restaurant. Let’s hear what this younger entrepreneur has to say about his journey to this point…
What’s Mzansi Restaurant?
Mzansi Restaurant is a second-generation household run enterprise based mostly in Langa, the oldest township within the Western Cape. Through the years we primarily catered to the inflow of worldwide shoppers that frequented Cape City. We additionally provide providers for off-site catered occasions.
We delight ourselves on creating business-to-business partnerships within the township, to spice up the financial system, and maintain the rand circulating amongst native companies.
What motivated you to hitch the journey and tourism trade?
I grew up in a household enterprise. My dad and mom had been within the leisure trade internet hosting jazz occasions. In 2008 they opened Mzansi Restaurant. It was the thought of my late grandmother. When she noticed the buses of vacationers coming out and in of Langa, she satisfied my dad and mom to open a restaurant, to entertain the visitors. I began as a safety guard and labored my approach as much as taking on the reins in 2018.
The place do you see Cape City, as a vacationer vacation spot, within the subsequent 5-10 years?
I see us discovering our new regular. COVID has affected us very strongly and we have now needed to redirect our choices, catering to a extra home and youthful demographic, to draw extra enterprise. I strongly consider, due to the journey awards Cape City has obtained, that we’ll have an inflow of vacationers once more, and even higher than it was earlier than.
To seek out out extra about Mzanzi Restaurant go to mzansi45.co.za
