Beauty therapist compiles winning plan
Monica Makhaza won R20 000 in EWC’s CEO business plan competition as the second runner-up
BEAUTY therapy student, Monica Makhaza (21), was crowned second runner-up in the Ekurhuleni West Technical, Vocational, Education and Training College’s (EWC) CEO business plan competition.
Her beauty parlor which she will launch once she has completed her studies will have a head start of R20 000 from the college.
Makhazi is a level 2 beauty therapy at the Kempton Park campus. The competition was run throughout all EWC’s campuses.
“I few months ago I attended an entrepreneurship start-up programme. With the knowledge I had gained, I compiled a business plan for the competition,” explained Makhaza.
From the plan she compiled, she was shortlisted for the top 20.
“The selected candidates attended advanced week long business training and had to improve their existing plans or change it if we so wished. I reviewed my existing plan.”
The shortlisted candidates then had to prepare a business class power point presentation to present in front of a panel of seven judges.
“Overall we were judged on both the written business plan and presentation, and that is how I earned the position of second runner-up and receiving third prize in the top five,” she explained.
Makhaza says the journey was tough. “It took hard work and determination, but I have learned that hard work never goes unnoticed.
“I can testify that when you set goals and go for them and not just let them end as an illusion but instead work hard to achieve them, you like other great conquerors, will have your name remembered centuries after you are gone, not for being wealthy or famous, but for truthfully serving because it is in serving others that you make a difference.”
