Social Enterprise

The Evangelical Lutheran Church Arts and Crafts Centre at Rorkes Drift was established in 1963 by a Swedish couple Ulla and Peder Govenuis, who were Swedish artists.   Their idea was to start an art and craft centre for black africans which could p ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa
Elgin Learning Foundation

Further Education and training college

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Co-op that distributes organic produce in CT. The Ethical Co-op is an online organic market offering an extensive range of affordable high quality organic food and household products. With its focus on supporting ethical and sustainable organic farming pr ...

Classification CriteriaCooperative or Membership Association, Social Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa
Event Greening Forum

The aim of the Event Greening Forum (EGF) is to promote and embrace sustainable and ethical business practices within the events industry in South Africa, with an initial focus on meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions and events (hereafter called ...

Classification CriteriaNot For Profit, Social Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

We support conservation, sustainability and ethical practices. Our Ethical Wine Tour involves visiting popular organic, Fair Trade, ethical and biodynamic wine estates with a specialist guide in the Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl areas, while our Loc ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Social Enterprise promoting sustainable farming and reforestation. Started in 1990, Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) is a South African social enterprise that realises sustainable development through greening, climate change action, sustainable natural ...

Classification CriteriaEnvironmental Goods or Services, Social Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Golden Flowers is a heartwarming personal story of an innovative and creative solution to an environmental problem. The project is located in a shack in Khayelitsha. Golden established his business of making flowers from tin cans because of a dream that h ...

Classification CriteriaEnvironmental Goods or Services, Social Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Grannies Gift and Coffee Shop is centrally situated in the main road, This gift and coffee shop sells gifts, stationary, interflora, haberdashery, material, handmade products like handbags, embroidered cushion covers and more.   Beatrice used to do ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Craft and jewellery community project.

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa
Green Times

Green Times is a weekly green e-newspaper sent to a national and internation mailing list, with special focus on Southern African solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. So we provide educational, positive role models and creative ways ...

Classification CriteriaEnvironmental Goods or Services
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust is a charity that raises money to support Aids orphans and township schools facing the impact of high levels of Aids orphans, in the Valley of a Thousand Hills near Durban, South Africa. AIDS Centre.

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa
Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre

The Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) focuses on the conservation of rare, vulnerable or endangered animals. Cheetah Conservation is one of the core disciplines. The Centre has established itself as one of the leaders in the breeding and researc ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

I-DEV is a strategy and investment advisory firm focused on growing and scaling leading companies in emerging markets. Over the last decade, I-DEV has advised 350+ companies and helped raise $80M+ in financing for seed to growth stage companies across Sub ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:Kenya
Secondary Country/ Countries Where Active:Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Ibuyambo sells crafts, paintings and cultural clothing in East London. They have three stalls that they decorate to sell their goods from. They also take part in traditional dancing and perform poetry. They are located in Kidds-Beach, Sunny South.

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Ietsie Bietsie was part of a group named Griekwa Fabric Painters that was made up of 12 people. It was necessary to break away as the group had become too big, and in 2002 four people started Ietsie Bietsie, each bringing their individual creative talents ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Ilala Weavers came into being in the 1980's with the objective of reviving some of the traditional Zulu handcrafts that were in danger of dying out at that time. As well as providing a guideline for self-sufficiency for Zulu women of the area, the main ob ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

The Imbali – Live Craft and Art Centre is home to KYLEMORE COMMUNITY CRAFTERS - a group of previously unemployed people who are being 'skills-trained' to manufacture crafts/items that will appeal to the Tourism Market.   The group is developing a b ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

The Indermark Community Centre hosts a variety of projects. The projects use the building to make their arts and crafts, as well as a place to display their products. To reach the Centre, from both entrances into Indermark, turn left on the first street, ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

The organisation is current in its infancy, still 'under construction'. The facilitation of planning processes required for the delivery of environmentally sustainable infrastructure which is capable of creating eco-social enterprises within the informal ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

Iza Crafts is a dream come true for Thembeka Metele, who has grown her business from a small home-based operation with one seamstress, to a thriving business that keeps seven full-time staff busy. At the hart of her business is the desire to empower her s ...

Classification CriteriaSocial Enterprise
Primary Country Where Active:South Africa

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