Luella Naidoo has over 15 years of experience within the devices and pharmaceutical sectors (both Ethical and Generics). She is an astute social entrepreneur and passionate about empowerment, skills development and creating value and impacting empowerment and financial inclusion for all entrepreneurs.
She has dedicated most of the work she activate to supporting the empowerment of youth graduates and people with special needs through job creation mentoring coaching and training Luella is a trailblazer and creating value in the business sector she influences is what sets this highly driven visionary on a trajectory to build bridges, support social cohesion, influence job creation and offer high impact problem-solving solutions especially in skills development.
Her advocacy using entrepreneurship to support interventions in the treatment and management of HIV sectors is what drives her passion. She spent 10 years working in the HIV arena in diverse roles within the pharmaceutical industry ranged from the sales rep, sales manager, product manager, sales, marketing, and Business management. This philanthropist Mom and Social Entrepreneur is very much the captain steering Jezriel Craig Holdings. Through her astute leadership and mentoring she is able to transform, empower and drive sustainable business solutions to enable her network to reach their professional, personal and economic goals. 
JCH places a strong emphasis on creating sustainable value driven partnership with clients and candidates in assisting them to fulfill their recruitment needs successfully.  The key focus of the business is about bridging the gap between having a degree and gaining work experience.
 Jezriel Craig Holdings (JCH) is a well specializes in the medical and pharmaceutical sector with a core focus on:- 
Training and Development
Recruitment
Contract Sales Force
 Business Strategies
Having studied Theology and equipped with a Masters in Business leadership Luella is highly purpose driven and in her career trajectory having mastered the Pharmaceutical industry she is destined to create a significant shift in supporting skills development in her advocacy work in the treatment and prevention. 

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ECAfrica100 in Conversation With Luella Naidoo

 
CEO of Redefine Human Capital, Irisha Luhanga knows how crucial it is to connect entrepreneurs’ businesses with talented individuals. She understands that the key to a company’s success lies in the satisfaction and growth of its employees. Luhanga has solidified her reputation in the human resource services field as the woman to get this done with world-class professionalism and integrity. The company is now expanding into the African continent and beyond, bringing her expertise to clients across a variety of business sectors.
Luhanga gracefully and single-minded sails ahead of her competitors in the recruitment and organizational development industry, realizing the entrepreneur’s dream of operating a sizable business that brings in revenue, while maintaining its distinctive identity. In a field that is often criticized for lacking genuine personal attention in order to receive quick commissions by both candidates and clients alike, Irisha Luhanga gives her clients a refreshingly different experience. Redefine Human Capital provides flexible and scalable end-end services that are tailored to suit individual client needs. Luhanga’s experience and success in the corporate world, combined with her passion for empowering women and youth who come into contact with her, delivers consistent results. Her successes include blue chip companies in the Engineering and Financial Services industries.
Irish doesn’t limit her ambition and excellence to her business’ achievements. Ever aware of the needs of the disadvantaged in this unequal society, she is one of the founding members an NGO, Visions of Joy, which provides basic needs to underprivileged youth. She also uses this as a vehicle to facilitate infrastructure projects that aim to effect systemic change in under-serviced communities. 
A wife and mother of two’ Luhanga’s working life began at the age of only 11, in a single parent household. She went on to fund her school and university career. As a self-funded entrepreneur who used her own capital to start and build her company, she brings insight into the dynamics that inform successes and failures in business and life. 
“I handle hardships with the determination that I will not fail, and as a leader who has committed her life to the personal and professional development of others, I am equally committed to continually investing in my own development as I strive for nothing but the best in all that I do.”
Redefine Human Capital, captained by the inimitable Irisha Luhanga, is poised to go beyond South Africa’s borders to an even more diverse global marketplace in the international talent search, startup and organisational development industry.  

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ECAfrica100 in Conversation With Irisha Luhanga

Mabusela’s ‘Metric Production is a stage and film production company he founded in 2013, which produced the award-winning stage play ‘Connection to Home’  and garnered rave reviews and bagged an award at the 8th Goree International Arts Festival in Senegal, in 2016. The company has gone on to create content for Craft Beer Company; Stimela Brewing. Currently, Metric Productions is producing a science school road show. A show which travels to under-provided schools, giving science kits to schools without science Labs and teaching science through drama.
Marcus’s focus is to bring solutions to African problems through storytelling and is collaborating with ‘The Independent State of Nandi’ Co-star Lebo Barole and Vanessa Perumal, Managing Director of JT Communication Solutions in producing a new digital comedy series.
As Rubin ‘The Hurricane’ Carter once noted, ‘He who bemoans lack of opportunity forgets that often small doors lead to big rooms’. I'm looking forward to being an active change agent, using film and television towards telling our stories and instilling hope in the African child and am thankful for all opportunities that have and continue to come my way, ends Marcus Mabusela. 

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ECAfrica100 in Conversation With Marcus Mabusela

 With offices in KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg, Ricinz Constructions is a 100% black female owned company that has been in operation since 2009
Having started off with grass cutting, our focus has changed over the years to include Electrical and Construction Work of which we have done work for the Department of Human Settlements and most notably currently Eskom 
The entrepreneurship bug bit Indrani while at a Women Empowerment Conference in 2007, where she learned that the government was looking to empower women in business.
She then decided to take the plunge and that was when her company, Ricinz Constructions cc was born. Her company’s core business is human settlements design and delivery, and they have augmented their core function with electrical, plumbing and general building maintenance services which complement their main business. The business has recently gone into the ICT sector carrying out optic fiber work for Huawei.
Indrani’s constantly involved in community development and in particular, programmes aimed at empowering women in rural communities. She is passionate and a firm believer in empowering underprivileged women and creating jobs. She is also a motivational speaker for the eThekwini Municipality, SEDA for Women Empowerment conferences and Lionesses of Africa. 
Indrani matriculated in 1981 at Stanger Manor Secondary, in KwaDukuza, KwaZulu-Natal. She started her professional career at The Foschini Group back in 1986, where she held a few positions over an 18-year period including a packer, sales lady, cashier, admin controller, and floor manager. After leaving The Foschini Group, she joined Truworths as a manager in 2005, a position she occupied for two years.
The single mother of two graduated in the second position out of 100 businesswomen in the NHBRC Women Empowerment Programme offered by the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Amongst her achievements, Indrani has won a few awards in recognition for her work in empowering others.  

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ECAfrica100 in Conversation With Indrani Govender - Director of RICINZ Constructions cc

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