ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS OF PERA 2017

PERA 2017 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Clothing Bank, represented by Tracey Chambers and Tracey Gilmore has been announced as the 2017 winner of the Western Cape’s most prestigious entrepreneurship awards, the Premier’s Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards (PERA).

The respective PERA category winners and those in second and third place were awarded as follows:

Winner (R75 000), second place (R35 000) and third place (R25 000)

The 2017 PERA Category Winners

(in winning order)

Category 1:  Emerging Business 

DeskStand  - Ryan Roberts

Eden All Natural - Debbie Ncube

Almond Creamery  - Adri Geyser

Category 2:  Established Business 

Cango Wildlife Ranch  - Andrew and Glen Eriksen

DJ Rigging  - Romy & Nick Fredericks

Mologadi LNL  - Lerato Nxumalo

Category 3: Social Enterprise

The Clothing Bank - Tracey Chambers and Tracey Gilmore (Overall winner)

Pimp My Book - Mpodumo Doubada

Fix Forward  - Joshua Cox

Category 4: Most Innovative Business 

Have You Heard Marketing - Ryan McFadyen and Jason Stewart

FruitLips - Elouise Joseph, Deidre Eigelaar and Liebre Jacobs

Whipping the Cat - Graeme Wilson

Category 5: Business with Global Reach

MPULL - Daryn Smith & Graeme Wilson

Afrigetics Botanicals - Steve Hurt

Foxolution  - Kerry Motherwell