"Sothaba was an excellent service provider, I am grateful that they were able to link me to other women entrepreneurs that are as hungry and ambitious as I am. The team was also dynamic and were able to source out other independent service providers to enrich/ empower us with knowledge and relevant information that we needed in our businesses."

"The program has covered my needs beyond my expectations and has covered overall business aspects. The program was well aligned with government and Seda directives on SMME development, it is the best and has kept us on our toes for over 10 months. Sothaba Enterprise Associates are the best and committed service providers and were always well prepared and brought specialists to address us on different subjects related to our businesses. Their team is the most passionate and they were patient with all of us as we had different companies and challenges. They were able to instil a sisterhood relationship and encouraged us to support each other and collaborate rather than competing with each other. Sothaba was just an excellent team, that really had an interest in the wellbeing of our business."

"We were also able to become compliant in terms of some documents and obligations like SARS, UIF, CIPC and many more to become funding ready. As a chemical manufacturing company, we were able to connect with S ABS for product testing through the Certification and Accreditation session. We have also benefited a lot from several sessions that included Digitization, Human Resource, Marketing and Branding, Compliance and Contracting, E-commerce, Pitching and others. Today we are in a better place for our business's growth and sustainability than we were 12 months ago."

"Thank you to the Sothaba team for providing stimulating discussions as well as happy distractions to rest my mind outside all the noise and many things that were happening around me. I could have lost hope without the support we got from this programme. Thank you to Ausi Bohlale, my coach whose expertise was invaluable throughout the program. Her insightful feedback pushed me to sharpen my thinking and took my business to a higher level. I also want to thank Ausi Petronela, Ausi Ntombi as well as Ntate Sifiso for their patient support and for all of the opportunities I was given to further improve my business."

"On Behalf of the Company BreezyWorld, I would like to thank the Sothaba Team for assisting me and educating me more about entrepreneurship and elevating my self-awareness. My most appreciation to Ms Bohlale, Ms Patronela, Mr Ndwandwe and the Sothaba team at large, may they continue to do the same to other individuals and entrepreneurs to come."

"To the Sothaba team, I would like to thank each one on the team, your work ethic and professionalism were truly inspiring. Please continue to do an amazing job with other entrepreneurs".