Meet our Circular Economy Incubator 2021 Cohort | 25 Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses. 

The Circular Economy Incubator (CEI) brings together 25 South African women ecopreneurs (an entrepreneur focused on creating and selling environmentally friendly products and services) with early-stage businesses to advance the circular or green economy mandate. 

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Adele Bruggeman​
Her Active

Her Active is an impact driven athleisure brand that empowers girls and women throughout their supply chain and gives back to models; committed to using sustainable fabrics, local manufacturing, and supporting sports development opportunities for girls with each sale made.

Amy Cunliffe
ARCunliffe (Pty) Ltd​

ARCunliffe is a construction project management consultancy. ARCunliffe's vision is to drive self-sustaining, community-based living/working/retail spaces that focus on reducing waste over the entire life cycle of the buildings.

Connect: Website

Cathy Kayembe
SwopSwop

SwopSwop is an online community of eco-citizens that are enthralled about being able to barter, up-cycle and save together. SwopSwop's mission is to keep products for longer in the economy, in part by encouraging users to see value in their pre-loved goods. 

​Connect: Website

Chantelle Goliath
Milli Distributions (Pty) Ltd

Milli Distributions is the sole importers and distribution of the first of its kind sanitary pad called Glory. Their product can be found in 347 outlets stores Clicks stores nationwide, Mother Nature Products, Selective Spar stores, Pharmacies and Takealot.

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Emile Delevallee
Waste Transformation 4 Energy

The Waste Transformation 4 Energy (WT4E) Association is the umbrella association for Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Project Developers, Technologies Suppliers, Financiers and Operators in Africa. WT4E believes in a well-functioning Circular Economy where landfilling is limited to a minimum, quality recycling is steadily increasing.

​Connect: Website

Johanna Greyling
Ecovizible (Pty) Ltd​

Ecovizible are world renowned products manufactured in South Africa based on soil cultures. Products are 100% natural, internationally benchmarked, environmentally friendly, eco-friendly and bio enzymatic. 

Lufuno Rasoesoe
TOSH Detergents

Tosh Detergents was formed as an economic business initiative to respond to the current economic challenges through manufacturing household detergents.The ingredient used
is to be utilised as a measure to preserve our environment and gently care for our customers.
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​Connect: Website

Mikateko Nkosi
Houses on Wheels

Houses on Wheels designs and constructs shipping container conversions as per clients need such as shipping container homes, shipping container restaurants, shipping container saloons which are also mobile and affordable.

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Connect: Website

Mmanakedi Modiselle
Bokamoso Recycling

Bokamoso Recycling is 100% black and female owned. They purchase crushed glass from reclaimers in the townships and sell it at a profitable margin. They provide reclaimers with PPE and encourage and educate them on glass recycling. 

Nana Myeza
Basadi Solutions​

Basadi Solutions introduces Phiwe: a recycling system of decentralised apps for turning waste into a resource through mobilising the community. Phiwe aims to be a scalable waste management platform that links all the stakeholders within the circular economy to maximise collaborative recycling efforts.

Nkhensani Ngwenya
Spencer

Spencer will offer plant-based leather produced from organic waste material and regenerative plant materials, intended for use in fashionware, furniture upholstery, and automotive and transport interiors.

Onnica Toko​
Macluminium Trading Biofuel​

Macluminium Trading is a company that manufactures biodiesel from waste cooking oil, soy oil and sunflower oil. The company was started by Onnica Toko due to an escalating fuel costs and the policy incentives.

Pretty Ndlovu
Slow Textiles South Africa

Slow Textiles main business involves collecting, sorting and reproducing sustainable fabric to serve the fashion and apparel industry, the home decor and furniture industry, as well as the vehicle fitting industries.

Connect: Website

Prudence Tebogo Moela
Moela Building Solution​

Moela Building Solution is a manufacturing company which will produce cleaner bricks from recycled material, namely fly ash. Their mission is to build a greener South Africa one brick at time using recycled material.

Reshoketswe Molepo
RRT Green Constructions

RRT Green Constructions is a 100% youth, black and woman owned renewable and construction company that addresses both the structure and the application processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout the building life-cycle. 

Ridhwana Shaik
Creatively Connected Consulting

Creatively Connected is a consultancy specialising in product development and online platform construction for creative brands.  The company's design principles stem from a viewpoint of thinking about the entire lifespan of a product starting with the end of the product’s lifespan in mind.

Salona Moodley
Aratana Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Aratana means Balance in Japanese. Aratana Consulting offers three tiers of business: Technical Advisory, Professional Engineering Services and Training and Development. They offer professional services in aim of providing a balanced approach that enhances the environment for a sustainable future in the engineering and construction sector.

Seipopi Moroane
Moreleti Waste

Moreleti Waste is black woman business which focuses on recycling plastic into useable bricks for construction purposes. Their mission is to mobilize the need to treat the environment with dignity while contributing to the employment of the community.

Sharné Bloem
Team Mahali

Team Mahali is a community of young professionals passionate about the reimagining and experimenting of novel ideas of place. Their vision is to catalyse the sustainable industrialisation and urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa through the development/reconfiguration of urban spaces and resource flows. 

Connect: Website

Siphelele Malaza
CarbonChem Industries

CarbonChem Industries offers a service to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a cost charged per ton of carbon dioxide comparable to the Carbon Tax. In turn, the gas is recycled for either commercialization or for the production of urea (and other chemicals). 

Sumaiyah Moolla
Emerging Energies

Emerging Energies is a start-up company in the energy space that is fully female and black owned. Their vision is to make alternative energy sources in the form of gas and solar power achievable, accessible and affordable to everyone in South Africa and Africa.

Sweetness Shabangu
I-Waste (Pty) Ltd

I-Waste (Pty) Ltd is a waste recycling plant-based black owned entity. I-Waste's core competency is to dedicate its service by providing their recycled product offerings to the target markets through competent management and best business practices through innovative, cost effective and environmentally friendly waste management solutions. 

Tessa O'Halloran
Plasticity

Plasticity is a small upcycling establishment based in the small town of Graaff-Reinet . Our products are created from discarded plastic waste material, a response to the level of pollution (both textile & plastic) visible in our natural environment.

​Connect: Website

Thandolwethu Dineka​
Monkobear Boutique

Monkobear Boutique is an online start-up retail store which sells eco-friendly, fashionable and redesigned quality clothing for babies and kids aged 0-6 years old. Their vision is to be one of the established eco-friendly kiddies’ brands globally. 

Wyomia Mouwers
Brand Ballistics

Brand Ballistics is a 100% black woman owned marketing strategy partner, collaborating with brands to achieve sustainability & social impact marketing goals, crafting brand stories, which reflects all stakeholders as custodians of sustainability values and objectives.