Limpopo Jewellery Cluster: Jewellery Business & Technical Incubator (LJC)

‘South Africa’s largest Development Project in the Jewellery Sector’

Location

Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Cost

R7-mil to start with, Project grew to R 17-mil

Donors

Duration

01/03/2008 to Present

Project Objectives

To establish the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Manufacturing, Training & SMME Development Project in the Limpopo Province.

EU Heads Visit Project

Project Outcomes

• Vukani Established the largest B-BBEE Jewellery Project in the Limpopo Province;
• The centre was built from the ground up, on a greenfields site in Polokwane;
• 34 young jewellers completed their training, of whom…
• 18 were established as SMME businesses;
• An additional 46 SMMEs completed their up-skills training;
• Short listed for the SEED Awards 2011 for Social & Environmental Entrepreneurship;
• International Association of Business Communicators African Gold Quill Award (2009);
• Silver PRISM Award (2009).