2020 Enactus South Africa Virtual Special Competition
Today, the Enactus mission is more critical than ever: to engage the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders to use innovation and business principles to improve the world. Enactus National Competitions bring positive energy and impact for people, planet and prosperity to life.
As the safety and health of everyone is our priority, many Enactus national competitions have gone virtual and/or are delayed from the original schedule.
But the NextGen Leaders of Enactus are and will be on the front line of the economic recovery around the world — they will define how we revive and thrive in the emerging new normal. #EnactusCares
Enactus South Africa are excited to kick off our competition season as we transition from a contact to a virtual competition experience.
Enactus South Africa (EnactusZA) will be hosting the Special Competitions from the 14th through to 15th July 2020 on LaunchPad6. We are honoured to have the support of our partners like Harmony, MTN, Ford and Unilever in specialised competitions that are aligned to their brand values and for the advancement of communities across South Africa. EnactusZA teams were again challenged to intervene and assist their communities to take advantage of these opportunities.
As in business, we believe that competition encourages innovation. For us, this means more lives impacted every day. As in the past, we have partnered with MTN, Harmony Gold Mining Company (Ltd), Ford Motor Company Fund and Unilever through special challenges. Each of these companies called these teams to action to address specific causes and needs. These challenges provide opportunities for the amplification of projects and to change more lives and communities.
The teams that advanced to the 2nd stage of these Special Competitions, have presented their impact reports on the 2020 themes:
Harmony Local Economic Development Challenge - addressing poverty alleviation and job creation in local communities around the country through entrepreneurship.
The following 8 EnactusZA teams (in alphabetical order) advanced to the 2nd (semi-final) stage of this challenge:
- Central University of Technology (CUT) – Village Fa
- Durban University of Technology (DUT) – Finiks
- Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) – Ukukhanya
- University of Kwa Zulu-Natal (UKZN) – Wormy Compost
- University of Limpopo (UL) – Triple R
- University of Mpumalanga (UMP) – Hatching Hope
- University of the Free State: Bloemfontein Campus (UFS: Bloemfontein) – Kutanga
- Vaal University of Technology (VUT) – Insika
Unilever Enactus Plastic Waste & Packaging Challenge –finding solutions to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover ‘post-consumer’ plastic waste.
The following 8 EnactusZA teams (in alphabetical order) advanced to the 2nd (semi-final) stage:
- Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) - Beach Muncher
- University of Cape Town (UCT) - Refill revolution
- University of Johannesburg (UJ) - Pair Packaging
- University of Mpumalanga (UMP) - Re Fuel
- University of the Free State: Bloemfontein (UFS: Bloem) - Re Future
- University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) - Unilever Refill & Recovery stations
- Vaal University of Technology (VUT) - Buhle
- Walter Sisulu University (WSU) – Greenfields
MTN Enactus ICT Challenge - aimed at offering students an opportunity to come up with innovative ideas and develop digital solutions to address socio-economic challenges.
- The Top 10 teams will be announced at the 2020 Enactus South Africa Virtual Competition.
- The teams leverage design thinking methodologies in developing powerful and meaningful digital solutions and services within the Health, Education and Agricultural sectors.
- Each team will win R100 000 from this MTN sponsorship while they will be mentored and guided by EnactusZA to ensure that all their apps or services or platforms are registered as companies and fully functional.
FORD C3 Building Sustainable Communities Project Partnership – Cycle 7 - mobilizes Enactus teams to use entrepreneurial action to find innovative, creative and unique ways to address an urgent, unmet social need or problem in the local community, empowering the community to become a more sustainable place to work and live.
The following teams (in alphabetical order) are finalists, and will be acknowledged at the Award Ceremony on 16th July. Each of these teams won US$5000 for their projects:
- Central University of Technology (CUT) - Village Fa
- Rhodes University (Rhodes) - Grahamstown E-Bike
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) - SmartGro
- University of Mpumalanga (UMP) - Re-fuel
Top executives from these partner companies will assess and judge all the team’s 12-minute presentations on the LaunchPad6 platform. In addition, there will be 5 minutes allocated for a Question and Answer session. The platform will be open to observers to view results during the Final Award Ceremony of the Virtual National Competition on 16th July 2020. This is where the Top 3 teams in each Special Challenge will be announced. The teams will receive project grants and trophies.
