SAB Foundation

Tholoana Enterprise Programme - We target 60 - 70 businesses per annum from across the country prioritising townships and rural areas. We also ensure that we get a good provincial spread. Our key beneficiary groups are women, youth, people in rural areas and people with disabilities. The programme is 18 months long and consists of skills training workshops, intensive mentoring, access to markets and some funding. The Social Innovation Awards - We seek business solutions to social problems, especially those experienced by women, youth, people in rural areas and people with disabilities. Many of the solutions we fund are conceived by people in townships and aimed at improving life in townships. This programme consists of financial support to scale the operation and a year to 18 months of targeted mentoring. Both programmes also have alumni funds. Where we see real potential for growth, scale and job creation, we re-invest and add more mentoring. The Rural Catalyst Programme - We have experimented with farming models in some poverty nodes in Limpopo, Eastern Cape, Free State and KZN where the key components are multiple farmers, a high value crop, preferably a guaranteed offtake and a central marketing and processing facility. With SocioNext, we run 10 five day idea generation and start up workshops in townships across the country to help unemployed people come up with ideas and start micro businesses in townships. In a normal year, we take up about 300 people through these workshops