Emerging Business Entrepreneur of the Year®: Kim Whitaker, Once in Cape Town
Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year®: Bryan Anderson, Delta Steam Systems
Medium Business Entrepreneur of the Year®: Nadir Khamissa, The Hello Group
Job Creator of the Year: Lewis Thomas, Partners Hair Design
Innovator of the Year: Nadir Khamissa, The Hello Group
Judges Prize: Ncamisile Maphumulo, Coastal Nephrology Centre
Entrepreneur of the Year® 2015: Gil Oved and Ran Neu-Ner, The Creative Counsel
Emerging Entrepreneur: Jonathan Pepler, Silverline Group
Small Business Entrepreneur: Andrew & Chris Brown, The Daily Buzz
Medium Business Entrepreneur: Anton Rossouw, Life Path Health
Innovator of the Year: Mariaan du Plessis & Conrad Smith, Medical Nutritional Institute
Job Creator of the Year: Tommy Makhatho, BiBi Cash & Carry
Entrepreneur of the Year® 2013: Tommy Makhatho, BiBi Cash & Carry
These questions and other issues affecting entrepreneurial growth in South Africa will be discussed at the launch of the 2013 Sanlam / Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year® competition.
Keynote speaker: Fred Robertson, a leading figure in the South African business community who co-founded Brimstone Investment Corporation Limited, and is currently Executive Deputy Chairman, Brimstone and Chairman of Lion of Africa Insurance Company Limited, Lion of Africa Life Assurance Company Limited, Sea Harvest Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and House of Monatic (Proprietary) Limited.
Emerging Entrepreneur: Tabisa Nomnganga, Bravo Promotions
Small Business Entrepreneur: Warren Graver, EnviroDeck
Medium Business Entrepreneur: Trevor Davids, Trevor Davids Plumbing
Innovator of the Year: Stuart Forrest, Triggerfish Animation Studios
Job Creator of the Year: Madelé Ferreira, Mooihoek Boerdery
Entrepreneur of the Year® 2012: William Duk, The Plantation Shutter Co.
The 2012 Sanlam / Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year® competition breakfast workshop featured an address by Ulrich Joubert, an economist from Kruger International, who is also involved with the Bureau for Economic Research at the University of Stellenbosch. Joubert is a past chairman of the Johannesburg Afrikaanse Sakekamer, as well as the Economic Advisory Committee of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut. He is also the only economist who has won the Beeld economist of the year competition three times.
The Pretoria workshop took place at the Leriba Hotel on 25 April 2012.
The seminar featured an address by Professor Matthew Lester, tackling the 2012 budget and its impact on South African entrepreneurs. Lester, whose credentials include a BCom CTA (Rhodes) and H Dip Tax Law (Wits), is a tax professor at Rhodes University and the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s award for distinguished teaching in 2001. He also won the SAICA Southern region Honours Tie 2009. Apart from teaching at Rhodes, he also lectures to a wide range of South Africans on money matters and writes the popular weekly column ‘Tax Talk’ in the Sunday Times.
The seminar featured an address by Professor Matthew Lester, tackling the 2012 budget and its impact on South African entrepreneurs. Lester, whose credentials include a BCom CTA (Rhodes) and H Dip Tax Law (Wits), is a tax professor at Rhodes University and the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s award for distinguished teaching in 2001. He also won the SAICA Southern region Honours Tie 2009. Apart from teaching at Rhodes, he also lectures to a wide range of South Africans on money matters and writes the popular weekly column ‘Tax Talk’ in the Sunday Times.
