In a country where jobs are scarce and desperation is high, hope is a currency - and for Namhla Mzolo, it’s a business model.
Namhla, through his company Mbungela Training & Skills College, offered students desperate for work the opportunity of a lifetime - a work readiness programme teaching you crucial skills to enter the workplace, along with a stipend of R5,700, all culminating in a prized job at his in-house call centre.
Forty unemployed young South Africans bought into the promise.
Many borrowed money they couldn’t afford to lose, hoping the course would be the key to a better future. But soon the cracks appeared.
With their training concluded, what was meant to be the doorway to opportunity left them asking the same painful questions: where was the stipend they were promised, and what happened to the job that had been held out as hope?
#TheDeviShow goes straight to source and catch Namhla Mzolo while he pitches his product to a prospective client.