Investment Holding Company

The reality in SA is that most Black people don't have a balance sheet and access to funding is the biggest single thing holding back the development of Black Business.

So in order to tackle that situation we need to be like Afrikaners by coming together, forming corporates, putting money together and having access to funding.

The first step would be to increase the saving rate of black households, but the problem with black households is that, they're exposed to high levels of debt, unemployment, increasing food and oil prices.
Those facts do not promote a saving culture in black households.

My School Idea (MSI) aims to address the above challenges that stop black households to save money in order to develop an Investment Holding Company that will finance economical activities that are currently happening in Townships to develop Black Businesses.

My School Idea is to tap into economic activities that are currently happening in Townships.

The truth is SA needs solutions to grow it's economy and MSI Investment Holding Company is one of the solutions to grow the economy. Why consider MSI?

My School Idea (MSI) has the capacity to innovate the education system, the ability to implement by mobilising resources that will make School Learners to take responsibility and to have the capacity to create entrepreneurial solutions that will address a social issue.

My School Idea (MSI) cannot be executed without the help of Corporate SA and the Government.


 

Online Retail Shop

 Raphela High School in Orange Farm, South Of Joburg

SA Townships and Rural areas have emerged as a new market for National Retail Stores. As we see an increase income level in this market segment that has lead to an increase in Shopping Centre development in Townships.

Developers and Investors are investing millions in Townships to develop Shopping Centres and employing market researchers to help them understand the dynamics of this market segment.

The reality is in Townships the sources of fresh food are street corners not Shopping Centres and the relationship between Street Vendors and Township consumers is deep, because of price, fresh food packages on offer and easy access points for consumers.

My School Learners have identified a gap in the Township Shopping Centre development, that is driven by raising income levels in this market and National Retail stores.

My School Idea is to develop Online Retail Shops in Townships by utilizing the Fresh Food Street Vendor strategy to meet the needs of this market segment. The whole strategy is Price, FMCG packages, easy access points and 48 hrs turn around time to consumers who shop online through My School Idea access point.

According to MasterCard Worldwide research 77% South Africans with access to internet have shopped online. Online retail grew 30% in 2010 passing the R 2 billion mark and pointing 40% growth in 2011. Last year 3.6 million people had been online for five years, by 2015 6.8 million will be online.

My School Learners have identified that an increasing income level in Townships has lead to a rise in shopping activity, and we want to shift 10% of that market share from physical shopping activity to online space. How?

By using the fresh food Street Vendor Strategy to lure consumers to shop online.

Healthcare Assist Scheme

Most South African people are poor, for them private healthcare will forever be out of reach. So it means we need to make public hospitals and clinics places where people can get decent and efficient care, at the same time be treated with dignity.

My school idea healthcare assist scheme goal is to shorten public healthcare waiting hours, specialist care waiting period and for doctors to have access to patient medical record folder on their smart phones.

 Healthcare Assist Scheme will also facilitate life-saving drug shortage by aligning with other public hospitals pharmacies.  

My School Idea Healthcare Assist Scheme mission will be to help the poor with administrating and facilitating their health care experience with public hospitals and clinics to be pleasant, at the same time will be developing a viable and sustainable business idea to address a social issue.

Book Publishing Agency

My School : Leshata High School in Orange Farm

The whole aim of the agency will be to put pressure on my school learners, community members and parents to appreciate the value of books and to grow South African book sector.

My school publishing agency will encourage different schools or individuals in my community to research and compile stories that will appeal to the community at large. The agency will commission school learners and individual in the community to submit stories that will excite, entertain and fascinate the community.

The agency will publish books that will be distributed, promoted and marketed in a specific community or region. All publish books that will be publish by my school will be outline with the audience in mind and the publish books will portray stories that are in line with the target market lifestyle, language and culture.

My school publishing agency will publish books that will be affordable and package to appeal to the target market.

My school learners firmly believe that the book publishing initiative can create and enthuse a book reading culture in black communities that will help grow SA book sector. 

Mobile Computer Library

My School : S'khumbuzo High School in Orange Farm


When it comes to black communities or townships schools we tend to focus on factors like hunger, domestic or community violence, overcrowded houses or classroom, the power of SADTU has on the government as factors that affect learners not to study.

We always forget to look at the crucial role the Department of Education plays in improving township schools. For starters the department’s failure to provide adequate teaching and learning materials to schools.

In this day and age we live in a knowledge base society and we need to develop alternative ways to provide teaching and learning workbooks/textbooks to schools, that’s why my school want to start a mobile computer library for schools in my community. 

My school mobile computer library will assist schools in my community with excess to internet, latest electronic textbooks, online workbooks, tutorial lessons, mock exams with solutions for school learners.

Another reason the mobile library will work is that the last computer centre we had in my school thieves broke-in and took all the computers.

The mobile computer library will rotate in and around schools in my community and all services provided will be at a cost per learner.

Transport Service

My School: Vulindlela High School: In Orange Farm, South Of Joburg

I’m in grade 11and I’ve discovered that out of forty learners in my class these about twenty eight parents who commute or use public transport daily to work and out twenty eight parents, fifteen work in Joburg.

So my school idea that I’ve identified with my classmates is to start a transport service business. The whole idea is to buy or lease a 2006 VW caravan or Mercedes Benz Vito (mini-bus) to transport our parents to work daily.

My school learners intend to turn this idea into a viable, sustainable and profitable business. By managing factors like; petrol expenses, routes to travel, passenger time, safety, convenience and finances.

The reason my school learners firmly believe this idea will work it’s because will offer our parents transport service to work that is reliable, safe, convenient, no queues and most importantly if our parents support this business initiative they will be helping their children to be self-reliant and to develop their entrepreneurial skill.

 

 

Take Care "Kidz Agency"

My school: Qedilizwe High School Evaton North in Vaal

Take Care kid’s agency is not a Day-care centre or a Nanny agency. We take care of kids in the meantime while the kids parents have an emergency or the unexpected happens like at midnight a family member has an accident or the boss at work needs the parent to work late to meet a deadline or the parent is running late to pick up the kids from the day care centre or the parent needs to go shopping/ the hair salon / these an event the parent must attend.

Take Care kid’s agency will be a call away to assist parents 24 hrs, 7days a week with their kids. The agency will assist parents under the above conditions and all parents who join the kids agency will be oblige by those conditions and if the parent fails to oblige to those conditions his/her membership will be terminated.

The agency will work/hire University students studying early childhood development to practically polish their childhood development skills and to lead a team of five high school learners to assist the varsity student with his/her practical’s.

Parents that join the agency need to be located or living within 300 meters radius from my school (kid’s agency offices) and the parents that join the agency will need to outline their lifestyle patters to the agency and specify why they need to join the agency.  

All parents that join Take Care kids agency will pay a monthly fee as an insurance to guarantee the services of the agency when they’re in need.