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Speaker 1: This is Breakfast with Bongani on seven oh two. Let's

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Speaker 1: walk little.

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Speaker 2: Running a small business takes more than just a good idea.

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Speaker 2: It takes the right tools, support, and the people who

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Speaker 2: understand what it takes to grow a business from the ground,

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Speaker 2: the people who are resilient when things take a turn,

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Speaker 2: when what you did not anticipate comes knocking on your door.

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Speaker 2: That's the philosophy behind the seven oh two Empty and

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Speaker 2: Small Business Awards to help entrepreneurs, those who establish small

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Speaker 2: and medium sized enterprises, to scale those businesses and to

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Speaker 2: provide solutions to help them operate, grow and thrive. But

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Speaker 2: join now in studio by dot Com Corsi Kumalo, who's

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Speaker 2: the general manager for SME and indirect channels at Empty

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Speaker 2: and Business, to break down what the seven o two

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Speaker 2: Empty in Small Business Awards mean for entrepreneurs. It's that

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Speaker 2: time of the year.

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Speaker 1: Definitely yellow Vogani yellow to everyone.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I remember the winner of the Empty and

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Speaker 2: Small Business Awards last year and just the excitement and

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Speaker 2: the scream and the running up to the stage because

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Speaker 2: the help that they get these businesses really really does count,

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Speaker 2: was it? What does it mean though for emptyn to

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Speaker 2: enable these entrepreneurs to operate, to grow and to thrive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bonani, I think it's MTN.

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Speaker 3: Of course, we build a digital solutions for Africa's progress

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Speaker 3: and that peppos that ambition that we have, we obviously

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Speaker 3: have to take it down to you know, the operational

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Speaker 3: lever And when you talk about SADA Communications last year

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Speaker 3: winning that award, what a marvel, what a difference maker

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Speaker 3: it has made to her. I have seen her grow.

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Speaker 3: Before the actual hour, she had about six people working

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Speaker 3: for hair. She has grown to almost thirty eight people.

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Speaker 3: That's doubled hair revenue. She has so many people that

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Speaker 3: called hair. I mean, she was saying to me. She's

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Speaker 3: managed to get three big contracts with a big retailer

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Speaker 3: who's doing scooter delivery. She's got about six scooters now,

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Speaker 3: she's got about two vehicles that are traversing between Northern

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Speaker 3: Cape and how they delivering goods and she's liverating on

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Speaker 3: the power of technology. That's the app that she's actually

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Speaker 3: built that was supposed to be for uber Like, but

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Speaker 3: she's obviously using it for her own business. Now she's

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Speaker 3: actually renting a driver for those logistics vehicles. She doesn't

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Speaker 3: employ people one hundred percent. She actually just gets them

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Speaker 3: to register on the app and she's basically.

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Speaker 1: Bidding for work. The guy's just bid for driving.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, that's the power of technology that is anchored

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Speaker 3: by EMPTN and I.

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Speaker 2: Think that, for me is what underscores the difference with

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Speaker 2: this competition, the idea that in a country where resources

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Speaker 2: are often limited, certainly if they're available, they are stretched,

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Speaker 2: that you can leverage technology to grow thriving and successful businesses.

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Speaker 3: You know, we have invested so much in ensuring that

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Speaker 3: our network is you know, the best and fit for

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Speaker 3: papers for small businesses, and really we cannot just keep

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Speaker 3: it to ourselves. Let's expose it, Let's democratize it, Let's

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Speaker 3: drive digital inclusion, leveraging on you know, some of the

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Speaker 3: three key pillars from our strategy, which is connectivity, and

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Speaker 3: it talked to you know, some of the fixed wireless

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Speaker 3: access solutions we've built. It talks to digital infrastructure and

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Speaker 3: fintech and all those three key pillars really really relevant

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Speaker 3: for small businesses.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you someone listening to you now saying

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Speaker 2: what it went from six employerloyees to thirty eight? Where

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Speaker 2: do I enter? What kind of businesses are you hoping

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Speaker 2: to see. Are you excited to see in terms of

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Speaker 2: this year's entrance.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're calling on all businesses that are operating

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Speaker 3: within Houding and we are calling them to come and

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Speaker 3: showcase the capabilities. What are they doing, the difference they

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Speaker 3: are making in their communities, how they are using technology

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Speaker 3: to gain market share and grow. They can go into

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Speaker 3: you know, pri media website, they can register there and

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Speaker 3: they can actually be part of, you know, the adjudication

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Speaker 3: that we are going to be doing over the next

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Speaker 3: five weeks and hopefully they get to be the top

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Speaker 3: ten that will really make it and hopefully get you know,

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Speaker 3: the amounts. I mean, we're offering about two hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: rands of airtime from seven oh two and of course

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Speaker 3: the third we it's about one hundred thousand. But we've

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Speaker 3: got top ten that we're basically supporting financially.

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Speaker 1: And it's not only that.

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Speaker 3: I mean last year, as we know, you guys managed,

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Speaker 3: I mean seven o two managed to provide them with

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Speaker 3: a building paid for for the year where they can

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Speaker 3: actually operate from satur Communication is very grateful for that,

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Speaker 3: for the support that you guys have given.

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Speaker 2: So if you're a small business and a small to

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Speaker 2: medium enterprise looking for that next boost, particularly when it

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Speaker 2: comes to connectivity and technology and you're making a difference

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Speaker 2: in your community. Go to Prime Media Plus and enter

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Speaker 2: for the seven o two Empty and Small Business Awards,

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