Every movement that ever mattered began with a simple, quiet realisation: you do not need a palace to build a future. You only need a purpose, and a few people brave enough to gather around it in total commitment. When we look back at the origins of RLabs, there is a temptation to frame our story around locations, dates, or formal launches. But brick and mortar have never been the vessel for HOPE. Buildings are static. People are dynamic. Spaces hold capacity, but people hold capability.
Guided by the African principle of Umntu ngumntu ngabantu, a person is a person through other people, the Zlto team recently took to the streets of Johannesburg for the annual 702 Walk the Talk.
At the 6th India Africa Business Network Entrepreneurship & Investment Summit in Cape Town, our Director, Rene Parker, joined fellow leaders representing AfriLabs to unpack what it actually means to be ‘Co-Creating Entrepreneurial Ventures.’
Instead of forcing young people to either travel to, or even more impossibly, relocate to where the work is, we are bringing the work to where the they live. Our upcoming BPO center in Mitchell’s Plain is a direct challenge to the old economic geography of Cape Town.