If you haven’t succeeded in realising your professional or personal dreams, there’s no reason why you can’t try again.
We recall crucial issues we’ve covered and inspiring stories from some of SA’s most powerful game-changers like DJ Zinhle Jiyane, businesswomen Zukie Siyotula, Gail Mabalane and Katleho Tsoku (Get the January 2016 issue of DESTINY to read all their inspired testimonies).
From them, we learn that every setback holds the key to success by teaching you new questions to ask, directions to take and aspects to consider. No matter what’s befallen you, there’s a promising new chapter waiting to be written.
- KATLEHO TSOKU
Out of the ashes of her failed restaurant, Tsoku raised a new platform for nurturing female entrepreneurs. After filing for bankruptcy, she needed a new challenge and a chance decision to attend the Australian Entrepreneurial Enablement Programme introduced her to Spark*, a developmental organisation that mentors women business owners.
Now CEO of the South African leg of the programme, Tsoku’s also created the SHE by Spark initiative, a unique accelerator programme designed to support female entrepreneurs running ventures that are improving the lives of women and girls. “Finding my way to Spark* really affirmed for me that we’re here as vessels for something greater than ourselves,” she says.
According to Spark* research, only 8% of small to medium enterprises are run by women and more than 90% of these fail within their first three years of operation. “We want to change these statistics, which is why I created the SHE programme,” says Tsoku. We’ve helped 10 women go through the Changemaker programme and it’s been fantastic. I’m also proud that DESTINY adopted the programme as part of its corporate social investment initiative. It’s a great fit, as we both stand for tangibly empowering women.
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