People leave trash wherever they go – and as countries get richer and their populations grow – the amount of waste they leave behind continues to grow as well. In past years, developed countries in the West have become more environmentally conscious thanks to the “Green Revolution” and invest a considerable amount of resources into the management of waste.
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Hot Platinum is a technology based company that was developed from an academic research partnership between the University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Mintek. Ali Brey (37), Managing Director and Irshad Khan (35), Technical Director, formed a consortium to commercialize the project and to develop the research into a commercial induction casting system solution. Ali and Irshad, who were part of the consortium, were able to secure R5.62 million in Innovation Fund funding for the initial product development period of 3 years in 2003. 
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We have all seen shoe shiners on street corners, in hotel lobbies, and at shopping centers. Lere Maniya (35) our Excelerator Entrepreneur saw a business opportunity as he sat and watched the informal shoe shiners making very good money out side of a restaurant in Cape Town. Lere development his business model with professional branding, high customer service levels, and standardized operating models and brought a corporatized business structure to the very informal shoe shine market. Lere’s Shoe Shine now has branded chairs in 5 major airports and employs 41 shoe shine operators.

Tourism in South Africa currently generates an estimated US$8.3 billion per annum, and with the World Cup just around the corner this number is expected to grow dramatically in the next decade.
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How do we build a better business network for ourselves? This is the question that led brothers, Ziggy (30) and Mzwandile (31) to open their first restaurant Sophiatown Bar Lounge on Miriam Makeba Square, Newtown, in 2007. The two brothers identified that they needed to attract a niche market of young, up and coming, professionals. 
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