Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay
This research project examines the emergence of youth entrepreneurs in the moments just before mining and industrial activities develop within a community. It focuses on how young people engage with the hopes and promise of opportunities engendered by the expansion of mines and industry within a par...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of Chemical Engineering
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613219885940736 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Manqoyi, Ayanda |
| author2 | Fuh, Divine |
| author_browse | Fuh, Divine Manqoyi, Ayanda |
| author_facet | Fuh, Divine Manqoyi, Ayanda |
| author_sort | Manqoyi, Ayanda |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | This research project examines the emergence of youth entrepreneurs in the moments just before mining and industrial activities develop within a community. It focuses on how young people engage with the hopes and promise of opportunities engendered by the expansion of mines and industry within a particular place. Using ethnography as methodology, it looks at how young people's dreams and desires in eSikhawini, a township in the Richards Bay area within the uMhlathuze Municipality, are activated by the coming of mining activities and how they use these to create entrepreneurs. In the context of mining and industrial expansion, young people use the promise of opportunity and the pursuit of dreams and desires to create particular kinds of entrepreneurs who attempt to stabilize their lives and that of their community in the face of precarity. It argues that the interrelations emergent in the daily enterprise of creating a stable future are key resources and insurance against uncertainty that sustain "community" in the context of eSikhawini. Overall, the thesis attempts to demonstrate that by recognising and strengthening youth entrepreneurs' capacity to aspire and realise their dreams can entrepreneurship interventions and programmes foster and sustain empowering relationships amongst marginalized people living in areas affected by mining and mineral beneficiation. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20850 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:32:39.476Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publishDateRange | 2016 |
| publishDateSort | 2016 |
| publisher | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| publisherStr | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/20850 Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay Manqoyi, Ayanda Fuh, Divine Broadhurst, Jennifer Lee Franzidis, Jean-Paul Chemical Engineering Economic Development This research project examines the emergence of youth entrepreneurs in the moments just before mining and industrial activities develop within a community. It focuses on how young people engage with the hopes and promise of opportunities engendered by the expansion of mines and industry within a particular place. Using ethnography as methodology, it looks at how young people's dreams and desires in eSikhawini, a township in the Richards Bay area within the uMhlathuze Municipality, are activated by the coming of mining activities and how they use these to create entrepreneurs. In the context of mining and industrial expansion, young people use the promise of opportunity and the pursuit of dreams and desires to create particular kinds of entrepreneurs who attempt to stabilize their lives and that of their community in the face of precarity. It argues that the interrelations emergent in the daily enterprise of creating a stable future are key resources and insurance against uncertainty that sustain "community" in the context of eSikhawini. Overall, the thesis attempts to demonstrate that by recognising and strengthening youth entrepreneurs' capacity to aspire and realise their dreams can entrepreneurship interventions and programmes foster and sustain empowering relationships amongst marginalized people living in areas affected by mining and mineral beneficiation. 2016-07-27T10:20:40Z 2016-07-27T10:20:40Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20850 eng application/pdf Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Chemical Engineering Economic Development Manqoyi, Ayanda Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| title_full | Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| title_fullStr | Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| title_short | Dreams come true: youth entrepreneurs in eSikhawini township, Richards Bay |
| title_sort | dreams come true youth entrepreneurs in esikhawini township richards bay |
| topic | Chemical Engineering Economic Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20850 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT manqoyiayanda dreamscometrueyouthentrepreneursinesikhawinitownshiprichardsbay |