Catherine Wijnberg

Director and Founder of Fetola, a leading provider of scalable, world-class entrepreneurial support programmes for African entrepreneurs. As business growth professionals, Fetola is committed to solving South Africa's triple threat of unemployment, inequality and poverty with the aim to effect lasting transformation of the South African economy. It does this by helping businesses reach their full potential delivering social, environmental and economic impact. Particular emphasis is placed on the circular economy, social enterprise, rural, women and youth sectors. Fetola partners with clients in corporate, local and international development institutions and philanthropic foundations who are committed to investing in this vision. To facilitate this, Fetola designs and implements game-changing National Enterprise Development Programmes that stimulate the growth of small businesses in Southern Africa. A full list of these can be seen in the "Projects" section below. Fetola's deep cross sector expertise supports a national network of small businesses, and a growing ecosystem of alumni as illustrated in the list below of major Fetola-led projects. Measure of success: Small business alumni of Fetola’s accelerator programmes consistently grow at 30,2% per annum and graduate with an 87% long-term survival rate. This is 9 times higher than national average. These businesses create new jobs at 20,9% per annum and have built & sustained over 7000 jobs. Total businesses assisted: 1100+ *Fetola means change in Sesotho