Investing in your passions
Q&A:
When Mandla Sibeko was in his teens (in the late 1990s), he was a member of the Johannesburg Junior City Council – a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that consists of about 70 young leaders coming from different high schools around the city – with the main focus of identifying and solving problems faced by the youth on a daily basis.
The Junior City Council found itself on the then-popular Felicia Mabuza-Suttle talk show, where they were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up. Sibeko didn’t flinch: “My response was to be a businessman.”
Sibeko stuckto his guns.
His holding company, Seed Capital Investments, established about ten years ago, aims to make long-term investments in small businesses and growing them to become leaders in their sectors. One of these small businesses was one of the first Pick n Pay stores in Soweto back in 2008.
Two years later, in 2010, Sibeko was recognised for his entrepreneurial efforts by The Forum of
