Fetola
Business Investment in Cape Town

business support & entrepreneur development programmes that help small businesses grow.

Fetola are enterprise and supplier development specialists with 30 years experience in stimulating entrepreneurial success. Gain access to experienced mentorship support, practical business tools and a network of like-minded entrepreneurs and business owners. Our Enterprise & Supplier Development solutions deliver lasting success and tangible benefits. Our team will identify critical gaps, earmark enterprises in need of development, implement and measure those changes. Holistic support packages designed to stimulate business success. Personal business skills training, including leadership development. Fetola offers an advanced and specialist research team to provide research and valuable knowledge on SME’s Africa-wide. This will then establishes a foundation for supporting the optimization of successful program implementation. In a bid to understand the main contributing factors to sustained SME growth in SA, a survey was conducted amongst the top-performing participants of the Legends SME incubator to identify common features that contribute to their success. The intention was to enable Fetola to use this information to strengthen their existing programmes, and to help SMEs nationally to understand some of the important growth strategies that high-performing organisations use. The event is designed to bring together development practitioners, investors, researchers, socio-economic development professionals, government, donors and all stakeholders involved in energy from all corners of the world. Rural and community development in practice seeks to address global challenges confronting the global south countries. Thus deliberation on this topic creates opportunities for investment in both social and economic development projects. The forum will address challenges that continue to face many communities. At the African Accelerator Summit we will discover how African roleplayers are catalysing growth & solving unemployment. We will explore what actions are needed to scale existing successes and what new innovations can unlock potential and create the thriving SME sector we desire. The inaugural African Accelerator Summit, the first task force of its kind in Africa, is the launch-pad for cohesive innovation and collaboration in the SME growth industry. Catherine Wijnberg started Fetola because she loves business and is passionate about helping others reach their full potential. Her vision is to make a difference across Southern Africa by growing the small business sector- for it is here that jobs are created, future success is cultivated and women, youth and rural communities can create self-empowered futures. Catherine has a long history as an entrepreneur, having owned and operated businesses in five different sectors. Anton Ressel is a Senior Consultant at Fetola and has over 15 years experience as an entrepreneur, trainer, business developer and mentor in the emerging business sector. Chantal is the lead Project Manager of the Tholoana Enterprise Programme and is responsible for its overall operations and functioning. Chantal is a qualified SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority) Assessor and a highly knowledgeable and skilled programme manager.