Looyanda Mbeki

Personal Profile
 Looyanda Mbeki is a young man born in Johannesburg 1987; grew up on the east coast of South Africa where his father’s family originate. Mid-his teenage years he moved back to the big city to complete his high school and he matriculated in 2006, under the science stream and he proceeded in 2007 to join the University of South Africa (UNISA) under the science foundation and in 2008 he pursued to study a Bachelor of Science major in Chemistry and Mathematics.

 In 2008 and 2009 while studying he got involved in the establishment of a Youth NPO (non profit organisation) named Thokoza Progressive Youth and became a member of the executive. In his indulgence with Thokoza Progressive Youth he got into an ownership of a company named Boundryless Kitchen with a vision to practically learn the establishment of a company .Beginning 2010 he announce to his family a shocking decision to suspend his BSc studies to pursue the establishment of his company and he went on to resign in Thokoza Progressive Youth. Between 2010 and mid 2011 he attempted to compile a business-plan for his company in construction but that did not deliver the desired result simultaneously he was partially involved in an entertainment industry, he went on to consult to speed up the process of compiling the business-plan where he couldn’t afford the services of the consultant company even though there was an investor who was interested into his business concept.

 Beginning 2012 he was offered to volunteer as Economic development Co-ordinator by the board members of Thokoza Progressive Youth, he took the offer and he got a call to be in the first recommended candidate list for an entrepreneurship programme called Y-age(Youth and Graduates Entrepreneurs), as a part time study. Beginning the financial year 2012-2013 he was officially appointed as Economic development Co-ordinator through his leadership he has assisted more that thirty new ventures which are mostly owned by young people.

 In 2013 he reached an agreement with a local radio station to host a business talk show (97.1 Kasi FM), been appointed to be an ambassador for the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) and graduated with the University of Johannesburg under the Centre for Small Business Development (CSBD).

 Currently he is the OWNER and the CEO of three companies named: Kyalam Construction (Pty) Ltd, Limitles Imports and Export (Pty) Ltd and Limitles Logistics