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Thabo Makhetha-Kwinana is a fashion designer best known for her work, designing award-winning collections of jackets, capes and coats for her self-named label, Thabo Makhetha.
Thabo has over 10 years of experience notably in design, events and as a key-note speaker on the topic of culture and heritage in fashion.  Thabo has worked with leading brands such as Sterns Jewellery, The Kruger Rand and Amarula.  In  2015 her events company, with husband, co-produced South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela's concert in partnership with Sun International.
In 2014 Thabo Makhetha-Kwinana was awarded the Impact Award for Design Excellence, she is luminary of several top lists notably the Mail & Guardian's Top  Young South Africans and Top under 40.  In 2018 Thabo studied Business at the University of Austin, Texas (USA) as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
Thabo has a passion for design, fashion and leading creative teams in telling powerful stories rooted and inspired by Africa.

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Magna Carta Wines is an organic wine growing winery established in 2014.
Mphumeleli Ndlangisa farms grapes and produces wine naturally, without adding chemicals.  He focuses on cultivars that are truly South African, Chenin Blanc and Pinotage.  His wines are anecdotes of African culture and history.
Magna Carta winery is owned by Mphumeleli and his wife Nomfundo Ndlangisa,  their vision is to grow their exports into more countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.  They currently are exporting 70% of their wines and aim to grow to 80% by 2023.

Magna Carta's mission is to organically grow and export proudly South African wines. They are farmers that want to change the way the world views South African wines, especially those farmed by black Africans.  Magna Carta winey is a family enterprise that wants to grow into international markets whilst creating jobs in South Africa.  They are passionate about agriculture and love being wine producers.  All their goals are long term, they work for the next generation who they hope will follow in their footsteps in organic farming.

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Papis Camara is a British, French and Senegalese citizen who is currently living between England and France.  He is an executive with over 15 years of professional experience.  He first had 10 years of international experiences in Sales, Marketing and Management within L'Oréal, the global leader in Beauty, he has been leading digital start-ups in the UK and France for nearly 6 years.  since April 2022, he has been managing the Digital Strategy and Growth Marketing for a leading hair and beauty distributor in the UK.
Papis is the Founder of Papis4Business, a consulting company specializing in Digital, Mentoring, Strategy and Marketing.  He is also a lecturer in Marketing and Strategy at Thelma Business School based in Dakar, which is the first management school in sub-Saharan Africa specializing in the Luxury, Fashion, Tourism and Hotel-Restaurant sectors. 

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Mzansi is a word understood by all but its meaning cuts a little deeper.  It's that feeling we get when we visit home for the first time in a while, the smell of the braai that takes us back to our childhood or that spirit of unity we feel in our core.  Mzansi Meat Co. wants to bring that magic to life through delicious, homegrown meat.

Meat is synonymous with almost every culture here in Africa and year on year the demand increases.  That's where Mzansi Meat Co. was born-out of a relentless desire to change our food systems and the way we make meat.  Mzansi sees a future where healthy, accessible and affordable meat is grown from cells without harming animals or the environment

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Sukume is an economic development company involved in Trade, Investment and Consulting in Africa. Sukume focuses on SME Development, Intra-African Trade and Place/ Country Branding.  Their customers include African economic development agencies, businesses, brands and places/ countries.  Sukume works to boost their global competitiveness for socio-economic transformation.
Sukume creates platforms to promote Made by African SME brands.  They build awareness and facilitates trade and investment for African SMEs.  They also aim to help SMEs to scale through doing business with corporates and governments as well as with their African and global counterparts in ways that foster shared economic growth and empowerment for local communities.

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Teboho Nthoana (formerly Mafodi) is a highly experienced and well respected business executive with over 15 years' senior executive management and operations experience in the ICT, Investment, Retail, Energy (Oil & Gas), Property, Construction and Management Consulting sectors with global experience in the private and public sectors at senior levels, including strategy formulation, leading multi-disciplinary teams, business re-engineering and driving organizational change.
Teboho is a recognised expert in infrastructure development, with a solid track record in structuring and financing private and public projects in Africa and other emerging markets.  He has contributed to creating and executing a pipeline of early stage transactions in the conventional and renewable (green) energy sectors as well as implementing risk management policies and compliance with valuation procedures.
He is a long-time champion of suitable project management, infrastructure and built environment practices, which has implemented in the value of approximately 10 billion portfolio that he manages as CEO of  TM Group.
Teboho represents TM Group or its parent company on various boards (both owned and external vested businesses) as well as sub-committees to the boards.

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