Samanjalo wins first 2023 Mpumalanga Green Solutions Pitch Challenge
The Green Solutions Pitch Challenge provided an outstanding opportunity to showcase the innovative efforts of entrepreneurs from all corners of Mpumalanga.
Local entrepreneurial company Samanjalo is one of the winners of the first Mpumalanga green solutions pitch challenge.
They won cash prizes sponsored by Seriti Green and Enertrag.
These green economy solutions were chosen by a panel of judges during a pitch event hosted in eMalahleni on Wednesday, November 1.
News release: SAMANJALO and Green Guru Solutions wins first 2023 Mpumalanga green solutions pitch challenge
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The judging panel included representatives of the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), the British High Commission to South Africa, Grindstone, Untapped Global, the Anglo America Foundation and Seriti Green.
“Mpumalanga’s transition to cleaner forms of energy is integral to helping South Africa to meet its climate change commitments. This is why the UK is dedicated to funding initiatives like the Green Solutions Pitch Challenge, where we have the chance to support green innovations in strategic sectors of the province,” said British High Commissioner to South Africa, Antony Phillipson, speaking at the pitch event.
“For me and the PCC, this marks the start of activating and stimulating green entrepreneurship among the innovative and talented young people in Mpumalanga. Real people, doing real things, for real impact,” said Dipak Patel, Head of Climate Finance and Innovation at the PCC.
Samanjalo is a flyash beneficiation business that uses technology to beneficiate the coal waste into green products used in construction and infrastructure environments such as green cement, bricks, pavers, and barricades.
“Winning this challenge said to us, it’s all in the timing, as long as you continue to wake up with hope, give every opportunity your best short, treat it like it is the first one,” said Prudence Simelane from Samanjalo.
“This was the day we needed to remind us of hope.”
“The Green Solutions Pitch Challenge provided an outstanding opportunity to showcase the innovative efforts of entrepreneurs from all corners of Mpumalanga,” said Beatrice Watermeyer, Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning at the Anglo American Foundation.
It was hosted by the Mpumalanga Green Cluster Agency.
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