Zevoli Growth Partners

06/09/2026

‼️Reminder: Information Session on Tuesday!
If you're thinking of applying or not sure whether your stokvel qualifies!
Get your answers before you commit.

🗓️ Tuesday 8 September 2026
🕚 10:00am
💻 Microsoft Teams
📍Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/385051306622826?p=7obdvZruz5G6v2pWbj
Meeting ID: 385 051 306 622 826
Passcode: 6s4UC3z6

03/09/2026

📢 Join the Online Information Session!
Join us for a full walkthrough of eligibility, support and the application process.

📆 Tuesday 8 September 2026
🕙 10:00am
💻 Microsoft Teams
📍 Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/385051306622826?p=7obdvZruz5G6v2pWbj
Meeting ID: 385 051 306 622 826
Passcode: 6s4UC3z6

Enquiries: 011 100 4727

Have questions about the Stokvel Leruo Programme? Find answers to the most frequently asked questions and learn more about the programme, what it offers, and how it can help your stokvel grow and thrive.

02/09/2026

Zevoli Plug - https://mailchi.mp/zevoligp/zevoli-plug-wwfm2lc90l-10348431

01/09/2026

To qualify for the Sanlam Foundation Leruo Stokvel Programme, your stokvel must: be operating for 1+ year, be based in Gauteng or North West, have recurring monthly contributions, operate a separate stokvel bank account, and be ready to commit to the full journey.
✅ Tick all the boxes?

✍ Apply here: https://www.zevoligp.com/sanlam-stokvel-programme/
🗓️ Closing date: 28 September 2026

Practical insights from more than a decade of enterprise and supplier development in South Africa: articles, videos, case studies and honest reflections.

29/08/2026

Is your stokvel ready to grow?

The Sanlam Foundation Leruo Stokvel Programme helps stokvels strengthen governance, improve financial discipline, and build towards investment readiness, with mentorship and practical tools every step of the way.

Only 20 stokvels will be selected.

✍Apply here: https://www.zevoligp.com/sanlam-stokvel-programme/
🗓️ Closing date: 28 September 2026

We are an advisory and project management company that focuses on end to end Enterprise and Supplier.

28/08/2026

Applications are officially open! The Sanlam Foundation Leruo Stokvel Programme is recruiting Cohort 4 of 20 committed stokvels across Gauteng and North West, for a structured 12-month journey delivered with Zevoli Growth Partners.

The Sanlam Foundation Leruo Stokvel Programme helps stokvels move from informal savings habits into stronger governance, disciplined financial management, formalisation, digitisation and investment readiness. Through mentorship, hands-on training and practical tools, we walk with your stokvel from application through to graduation.

To qualify, your stokvel must:
✅ be operating for at least one year
✅ be based in Gauteng or North West
✅ have recurring monthly member contributions
✅ operate a separate stokvel bank account
✅ need business development support to grow
✅ and be able to commit to the full 12-month journey

Recruitment is open from 28 August to 28 September 2026. An information session will be held in early September for stokvels who want to ask questions before applying, details to follow. This is a selective cohort of 20, so we encourage every stokvel that meets the criteria to apply early.

Apply here: https://www.zevoligp.com/sanlam-stokvel-programme/
Closing date: 28 September 2026

25/08/2026

Bonisiwe Rikhotso, our Project Manager, sits in rooms with women entrepreneurs every day. She knows what it looks like when someone is told they have potential, but given systems that weren't designed for them.
And she knows what it looks like when they succeed anyway.

We see you.
We celebrate you.
We are building with you. 💙

21/08/2026

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Every setback carries a lesson but only if you stop to look for it. The entrepreneurs who bounce back stronger aren't the ones who never fail; they're the ones who reflect, adjust, and move forward smarter. Your challenges today are your strategy tomorrow.

19/08/2026

💡 ESD Nuggets!

Bonisiwe Rikhotso has been sitting with a question that doesn't get asked enough in enterprise development.
📍 What does it really mean to build capability before we expect scale?

Not as a concept.
As a daily practice.
As the thing that determines whether a woman entrepreneur endures or simply participates.

Women entrepreneurs do not just need inspiration.
They need structure.
Structure that acknowledges their reality.
Not the version of an entrepreneur the programme imagined.
The one that actually walked through the door.

Watch the full Nugget https://youtu.be/8WCio1Mho48

18/08/2026

FAQ Tuesday!

💭 Answer: Because compliance was never the risk.

In most strained supplier relationships, the development succeeded and the contract was honoured yet the partnership still struggles. The reason is a distinction the industry is only beginning to name: being developed and being ready to deliver on a contract are two different capabilities.

Development builds the foundations of a business inside a protected environment: governance, compliance, systems and skills, measured against programme outcomes.

A supply contract tests something else entirely: the working capital to carry production ahead of payment, the capacity to meet committed volumes at specification, quality consistency under sustained pressure and commercial terms the business has never carried before.

The corporate signs expecting a supplier. The SME signs carrying the capabilities the programme built and the gaps it was never designed to close. Neither side tests the assumption between them, and the contract surfaces it later. Usually at review time.

A partnership holds when the development investment converts into a supply relationship that performs. Testing that conversion is a discipline of its own and the midyear point is the right time to apply it, while there is still room to act before scorecard season.

Mphonyana Monama's article https://www.zevoligp.com/the-esd-expectation-nobody-writes-down/