This year’s African Renaissance conference
focused on Entrepreneurship, looking deeply at youth entrepreneurship across
Africa.
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| The African Renaissance Conference 2015 - Image by Fred Felton |
Leading the opening panel was Councilor
Mayor Nxumalo who officially welcomed all delegates, which had almost every
country represented on #Africa Day. Minister of Small Business & Enterprise
Lindiwe Zulu highlighted the importance of working collaboratively with other
African countries as key to growing South Africa and Africa as whole.
What was interesting to note that the
industries that need the most entrepreneurial growth were renewable energy,
technology (green & innovative), maritime, agriculture, economic and social
development industries. These industries have the potential of growing
immensely and impacting greatly on communities, according to the government
panel which included Minister of the Presidency Jeff Radebe.
Even with all these developments the challenges
are real in every aspect relating to youth, mainly being youth unemployment,
slow youth development in entrepreneurship, lack of job creation and inadequate
support of youth entrepreneurship. Much of these challenges plague many African
countries even with current and planned resources to assist, however there have
been instances of silver lining with the support of great businesses that do a
great deal of work to actively take part in strengthening the economy.
For entrepreneurship to grow in Durban,
South Africa and Africa as whole, it begins with its people. Its people need to
adopt a new mindset of how to do business and encourage any youth within their
midst to do more than expect a job, but be creative with their skills and find
new ways to create opportunity and work for themselves and others.
Article by Amanda O Mathe
Journalist and Director at Ndlovukazi Online Media.
Twitter @Onapower
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