Gauteng Business 2016 edition
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
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PROFILE<br />
Zig Enterprise<br />
Caiphus Mokotedi is the founder of Zig Enterprise, a 100%<br />
black-owned automotive company operating in Silverton.<br />
Caiphus Mokotedi owns and manages Zig<br />
Enterprise and is one of the great success stories<br />
from the Automotive Industry Development<br />
Centre (AIDC), as he is the first Incubatee to<br />
graduate from the Centre. The AIDC centre is<br />
a business Incubation programme developed<br />
to support black-owned businesses during the<br />
critical start-up phase that would then perform<br />
value-added sub-assembly work for Tier 1 suppliers<br />
on the Ford Ranger assembly at the Ford<br />
Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA). The<br />
training and development plan, jointly conceived<br />
by FMCSA and the AIDC, led to a five-year plan to<br />
enhance the overall skills and knowledge base<br />
of automotive workers in the Silverton Assembly<br />
Plant in Pretoria. This is to ensure that globally<br />
competitive businesses are able to enter the<br />
automotive supply chain and to be able to operate<br />
in line with its high standard of requirements<br />
and demands. Mokotedi was also one of the first<br />
BEE entrepreneurs who joined the Incubation<br />
programme in 2011.<br />
How would you describe the AIDC programme<br />
and the role it has played in<br />
your life?<br />
The AIDC is a programme that helped me a great<br />
deal as it supported me in building and living my<br />
dream of becoming one of the few black-owned<br />
business owners in our country. The programme<br />
has been an incredible journey and milestone<br />
in my personal as well as professional life. It<br />
played a huge role during our start-up phase<br />
with the many highs, lows and challenges that<br />
we needed to overcome over the past four years<br />
however with motivation and perseverance, we<br />
prospered.<br />
Caiphus Mokotedi is a qualified Mechanical<br />
Engineer from Technikon Witwatersrand with<br />
18 years in the automotive industry. He previously<br />
worked as a Trainee Engineer at the BMW<br />
SA Assembly plant in Rosslyn, and as Process<br />
Engineer for “Widney Transport Components”.<br />
What does Zig Enterprise do, and what<br />
success have you had in the past year?<br />
We provide logistics services and offer a valueadding<br />
service to The Ford Motor Company<br />
of Southern Africa through our Vehicle<br />
Personalisation Centre (VPC). This services includes<br />
the fitment of the following parts: wheel<br />
lock nuts, spare wheel locks, bullbars, heavy duty<br />
seat covers, window etching and metal e-marking.<br />
We also recently ventured into providing a<br />
carwash service for fleet cars at Ford.<br />
What is the growth of competition in the<br />
auto service businesses?<br />
The scale and importance of the automotive<br />
industry has created many opportunities for<br />
people to get involved, especially as the com-<br />
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