Talking, moving, motivating
JOHANNESBURG – Meet Africa’s young motivational speaker and CEO
All this young CEO aims to do is motivate you!
Zwelethu Xolani Mambane, born in 1993, is passionate, talented and motivated, but most importantly, he is a very young chief executive officer.
Growing up in a small town in Mpumalanga, Mambane did not just inherit a business and a title, but rather made a name for himself doing the thing that he loves – on a grand scale.
“It started when I was back in high school because I was elected as the SRC president. As president, I had to prepare a speech every time I addressed the students, and at the same time motivate them to do better and achieve better marks,” Mambane explained as he described where his love for motivational speaking began.
At school level, the young president was already being invited to other schools to hold motivational talks for the students, and later began motivating people at churches. Then Mambane took his voice to the community.
Later he started a Christian youth association at a local church in an attempt to curb the drug use and derailing of his peers in the community.
At 21, the slick-talking young man was employed at one of the top financial institutions in the country but, after working under the thumb of another, decided that opening his own business is what he really wanted to do.
“When you follow the path and the career that you love, that is when you excel at what you do because you are passionate about it and that’s what I felt for speaking,” he said.
Mambane then founded two companies called 911 Artist Management and ZwelethuTheSpeaker Inc., both of which are operated from their office in Braamfontein – and soon to be relocated to the Johannesburg CBD.
Mambane explained that turning his passion for speaking into a business came about after the realisation that as a businessman you need to be a problem-solver, and he would solve the lack of motivation in the country.
By age 25, the business-owner aims to be a self-made millionaire.
“I want to see myself impacting different people and even changing the country’s economy and implementing opportunities for youngsters without any fear or discouragement or criticism,” he concluded.
Details: 911artistmanagement.com; www.zwelethuthespeaker.co.za
