1. OPPORTUNITIES & FUNDING (TWIT)
COMPILED : OLGA MAMABULA MASHILO

2. SUPPORTING TWIT’sVISION
OUR SUPPORT FOR TWIT IS
Ensuring that the vision to empower women in transport through
Skills Development Programmes with focus on youth and women owned businesses;
Help with business leads to ensure their businesses are sustained and able to create job opportunities for all;
Creating business opportunities within the local areas with big businesses
Sustainable company that will adapt to challenges faced in the market arena!

3. BOLENG BONTLE’S JOURNEY
Few companies understand the importance of starting a fully BEE Transport company.
We currently have a collaboration with various businesses to ensure we grow and understand the role women play in the Transport and Logistics industries
We are under the armpits of Transport Forum which is a Special Interest Group.

4. TWIT OPPORTUNITIES
With green business we also have opportunities offered by other business
Big businesses within the bus and trucking industry has opportunities for companies within TWIT to be accessed from training to dealerships.
Provincial membership: currently have a high membership in the Gauteng (Tshwane)and would like to increase the database so as to be able to do business to business with other provinces.
Volvo has opportunities to empower women as truck/bus drivers
Nondweni Bus Services also empowers youth and women owned bus operators in the scholar transport.

5. COCA-COLA OPPORTUNITIES
Owner Driver Learnership – Filled for now will open next year
Control room Learnerships (Woman And people with Disabilities) – Filled for now will open next year April
We have opened for peak (Nov to Jan) Experiential learning opportunities for upcoming Graduates doing logistics studies – Open
We are on the lookout for a Management trainee with some background in the Transport and technical Environment and has management exposure – Open

6. Key Players Coca-Cola South Africa Transnet Iveco South Africa
Department of Transport
Gibela
UNIDO

7. Experience through Transport Forum
Compliance is key to build a network with other businesses
Collaborations with various departments and private sector (PPP) will help SMMEs to create jobs and alleviating poverty through empowerment programmes
Access to funding for capital projects that both South African government and other SADC projects will help with cross-border businesses
Contracts with other established bus services eg. Putco, Areyeng, Nondweni as BEE partners for especially scholar transport assisting in the growth and skills transfer to new bus services entrants.
From the Transnet side where we look at under utilised lines and terminals be accessed by women and youth owned business.
While SEZ are busy with construction of HUBS we need to establish a relationship with those areas to access business opportunities in those areas.

8. ACCESS TO FUNDING
Accessing funding from a woman perspective can really be a nightmare. However, we never despair or gave up as there are organisations willing to take us under their wings.
DBSA
IDC

9. SMARTER OPPORTUNITIES
With smater cities mobility summit coming up we have more opportunities in that the technologies used by various transporters or manufacturers are there to be accessed so as to establish ourselves and preparations for use of technologies upgraded.

10. Director: Olga Mashilo
Olga Mashilo worked for Transnet Business Freight – Channel Manager
Resigned from Transnet and started Boleng Bontle Consultants , for the realisation of a dream to come true.
Secretary to Mabopane Business Forum in the years 2013/14 of starting to understand the transport industry
Study transport in 2004
A Founder for Women in Trans-Continental Transport
Chairperson for South African Network of Women in Transport

11. Contact Details Name: Olga Mashilo Position: Director
Mobile No:
Physical Address: no 943 Zone 14 Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane 0208
Postal Address: 1421 Block A Mabopane 0190
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