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Know who is growing,
and who needs you.

Every business you back is measured the same way, with proof, every month. Mothusi tells you who moved, who is stuck and what to do next.

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Mokoena Constructionhired two peopleLesedi Greensmoved up to OperatingMolefe Cateringfirst repeat orderHighveld Growers4 tonnes to a new buyerKopano Textilesfirst export orderNaledi Sitholetook on three new menteesRethabile Salonsecond chair, second stylist
Bokamoso Bakeryno month closed since MayTshepo Logisticstax clearance lapses on FridayMphoyame Farmsfeed runs out in 9 daysKagiso Sewingasked for a mentor, none matched yetDineo's Kitchenmissed two check-insPula WeldingR31,000 owed for 45 days

2,850SMEs and farmers reached700+in one live deployment35industries29villages

You back 1,047 businesses.

Which ones grew this year?

Every programme counts it differently: attendance here, a survey there, a spreadsheet for the board.

Each dot is one business, in the colour of its level: Forming, Operating, Established.

On Mothusi, every business is measured the same way.

1How it works together

Funders, partners, providers and businesses, working on one page.

The organisation at the top funds the programmes. Delivery partners run them, other partners bring work and resources, and mentors, trainers and accountants serve the businesses. Each business reports once a month, and everyone sees what moved.

The organisation at the top
Meridian Enterprise FundFunds the programmes and the fund · R12m
Delivery partners run the programmesPartners bring work and resources
Savannah GrowthRuns Women in Business
Harbour EnterpriseRuns Supplier Readiness
Tswelo RetailA R2.4m supply package
Kgotla Mining12 internships and a venue
Meridian SME ProgrammesWomen in Business · Supplier Readiness · Growth Fund · WorkshopsOne measure for every business
The businesses you grow412 on Mothusi
The people who serve them
Naledi Sithole · Mentor
Kgomotso Tax and Books · Accountant
Tumi Khumalo · Trainer
Places, support and work go downCheck-ins and proof come up

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2Working together

A buyer needed suppliers. The whole network got twelve ready.

One package, six months, every group playing its part, and each of them sees the result from where it stands.

  1. MarchTswelo RetailPartnerPosts a R2.4m supply package: fresh produce for 14 stores, local suppliers only.
  2. AprilMeridian Enterprise FundFunderFunds Supplier Readiness: R1.2m for 40 places.
  3. AprilHarbour EnterpriseDelivery partnerRuns it in four stages, and picks the 40 from who fits.
  4. May to JulyNaledi and KgomotsoService providersPricing set with Naledi, books closed with Kgomotso, for 31 of them.
  5. August18 businessesMembersReach Operating, each move signed off by Neo Dlamini.
  6. September✓12 of them win itMembersR2.4m awarded. Lesedi Greens supplies spinach to six stores.

The same result, seen by each of them

Meridian seesR1.2m in, R2.4m in contracts out, 31 jobs
Harbour Enterprise sees18 of 40 moved up a level
Kgomotso sees31 clients with books closed
Tswelo Retail sees12 local suppliers, each checked
Lesedi Greens seesIts first contract: R18,000 a month

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Thabo Seane in his vegetable tunnels at Lesedi Greens
Thabo Seane · Lesedi Greens, Phokeng

3One measure

Every business, measured the same way.

A Growth Score out of 100, read across six pillars. Three levels, Forming, Operating and Established, each earned with proof that a reviewer on your team signs off. The same for every programme, fund and partner.

Lesedi GreensVegetables · Phokeng
61 of 100
FormingOperatingEstablished
Strategic Capability38
Market Position47
Financial Stability52
Operational Resilience64
Commercial Strength71
Compliance82

Strongest on the law and on sales. Weakest on planning ahead: nothing written past this season. The white mark is your network’s average.

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4Missions

Eight missions take a business from Forming to Operating.

Each mission proves one thing a programme, a fund or a buyer will ask for. Mothusi picks the next one by what it opens for that business, and every mission ends with a stamp and something to show.

  1. 1✓Business identity
  2. 2✓Your offer, and how customers find you
  3. 3✓Tax, registration and permits
  4. 4✓Business money, separate and visible
  5. 5✓How the work gets done, and by whom
  6. 6✓Ownership and authority
  7. 7✓One paying customer, end to end
  8. 8✓One full month, everything in and out
  9. Operating
What Lesedi Greens has to show for itCapability statementCompany profile packTrack-record entryBasic lending pack
Lesedi Greens moved up to OperatingSigned off by Neo Dlamini · 23 people in your network said well done
Say well done

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5Programmes and funds

Design programmes and funds on the same measure.

A programme is a path from one level to the next, stage by stage, with what each stage must prove. A fund says which level and proof it asks for. Mothusi drafts both from one line, and shows who already fits.

Six months to get women-owned food businesses trading properly
Women in BusinessForming to Operating · 6 months

Run by Savannah Growth · funded by Meridian Enterprise Fund · drafted by Mothusi, yours to change

  1. 1Stage 1 · October · 4 weeksWho they are, and what the law asksMoves on when: Registered, tax in order, owners on file
  2. 2Stage 2 · November · 6 weeksWhat they sell, and to whomMoves on when: A clear offer, and one paying customer proved
  3. 3Stage 3 · January · 6 weeksTheir moneyMoves on when: Business money kept separate, one full month closed
  4. 4Stage 4 · March · 4 weeksHow the work gets doneMoves on when: The same work, done the same way every time

Mothusi mentors every two weeks · a report every month · Neo Dlamini signs each move

38 fit now · 54 are one mission awayInvite the 38
Growth Fund · R5 million · asks for Operating and three months closed17 ready to apply

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6Bringing them in

Send one link.
By Friday, 412 are in.

mothusi.ai/join/meridianCopy

Each business joins with the file it already has. The partners who run your programmes, and the mentors, trainers and accountants who serve your businesses, join beside them.

Who runs and funds it

Meridian Enterprise FundYou · funds all 14 programmes
Savannah GrowthRuns Women in Business
Harbour EnterpriseRuns Supplier Readiness

and your team: 6 managers and reviewers

The businesses you grow

Thabo Mokoena joinedHis file came with him: registration, tax clearance, 3 of 7 checks done.

The people who serve them

Naledi SitholeFinance mentor · 2 slots open
Kgomotso Tax and BooksAccountant · room for 4
Tumi KhumaloTrainer · bookkeeping

and 35 more

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7A store of their own

Every business gets a store the day it joins.

Mothusi drafts it from the business’s file: what it sells, the price, the photo. One tap and it is live, with its own address to share and orders straight to WhatsApp. The buyer needs no account and no app.

mothusi.ai/lesedi-greens
Live

Grown by Thabo in Phokeng, North West

Lesedi Greens

Fresh spinach, picked the morning you collect. Grown under shade net in Phokeng.

Spinach, R15 a bunch. Collect at the farm gate, or delivered around Phokeng.

Order on WhatsAppNo account, no app.
Thabo answers you himself.

Shared toWhatsAppFacebookLinkedIn128 people opened it
New order on WhatsAppKanana Guesthouse · 30 bunches for Saturday · R450Reply

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8Opportunities

Opportunities find the business, read against its file.

Calls, funds, tenders and buyers’ requests, from your network and beyond. Each one says what it asks for, what the business already has, and the mission that closes the gap.

Seven open to Lesedi Greens now. Four more when it reaches Operating.In reach when its missions are done R1.05m
School feeding contractMeridian buyers · closes 14 OctoberMeets 1 of 2. Blocked: taxR250k to R1m
Mentoring with Naledi SitholeMeridian · rollingMeets all of itFree
Mpho’s Kitchen, spinach supplyBuyer request · 2 hours agoSells itR300 a week
Growth FundMeridian Enterprise Fund · opens 1 NovemberMeets 2 of 5R50k
Record keeping courseStarts 10 NovemberCounts for Mission 8Free

The gap is the tax number
Mission 3, tax, registration and permits, clears it. The contract closes in 11 days.Start Mission 3

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9Trade inside the network

Members buy from members first.

A member posts what it needs. Mothusi finds the members who sell it and drafts the quote from their store prices. When the deal closes, the network counts it.

Mpho Kgosana · Mpho’s Kitchen, looking to buy · 2 hours ago

Morogo and pap is back on the lunch menu from Monday. Looking for a spinach supplier: 20 bunches every Monday, delivered, picked that morning.

3 members sell spinach. Lesedi Greens is 4 km away and delivers on Mondays.
Mothusi drafted it from Lesedi Greens’ store pricesQuote to Mpho’s Kitchen
Spinach, 20 bunchesR260
Delivery, MondaysR40
A weekR300
Check and sendReply on WhatsApp
✓Mpho accepted: R300 a week. Lesedi Greens’ first paying customer on record, for Mission 7.

R34,000traded between members this week, every deal counted for your network

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10Community

Members meet, help each other, and bring in the people they work with.

Every week the reel shows who joined, who moved up and who needs what. Each business invites its accountant, its suppliers and its buyers, so your network grows from inside.

In Meridian this week

YouMeridianMphoNalediKagisoLeboThaboTumi
Meridian · announcement · today

School feeding tender briefing, Thursday at 10:00. What the schools ask for, how deliveries work and how payment runs.

31 members are going · I will be there
Lesedi Greens · moved up to Operating

Signed off by Neo Dlamini after one full month closed.

23 people said well done
Lesedi Greens brought in the people it works withOne link each, sent from its own page
Kgomotso Tax and BooksIts accountant · joins to serveJoined
Mpho’s KitchenIts buyer · joins as a businessJoined
Sipho Nkosi SeedlingsIts supplier · joins as a businessJoined

64joined this month because a member asked them

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11Every month

Every month, each business tells you how it is really doing.

Money in and out, the team and the jobs added, wins, work underway and what it needs. Mothusi reads each check-in the day it lands, and has the next step ready for your yes.

Mokoena ConstructionThabo Mokoena · July check-in · arrived 08:14Growth Score 61, up 3
A concrete slab poured on site
Phase Two slab poured for Radebe Builders · from the check-in
R286,000Revenue in July, up 12%
9 peopleTeam, 2 hired in July
R48,000Owed by Sechaba, 32 days late
Mothusi’s read

Revenue rose 12% and two people were hired. But Sechaba Projects is 32 days late with R48,000, and the tax clearance renewal is due next month. Cash timing is the risk, not demand.

Ready for your yes

Payment letter to Sechaba Projects · draftedSend
Working capital · 2 funds in your network fitShow
Plant hire for 4 August · 9 suppliers in your networkAsk for quotes

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12Across your network

53 businesses are stuck on the same thing.

Because every business is measured the same way, Mothusi sees the gap that repeats across 14 programmes, and what cleared it last time.

Meridian · 1,047 businesses · 14 programmes

Mission 8, one full month closed: where the 53 sit

Contractor Development21
Grain Farmer Development16
Tourism and Hospitality9
Five other programmes7
In February, the records clinic cleared it for 41 of 47
Invite the 53 to the clinic14 October · 60 seats

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13Your report

Ask for the quarter’s report. It is ready in 4.2 seconds.

Every figure traces to a business, a document and the person who signed it off, so anyone on your board can check any line.

Q3 report for the Meridian board
Written in 4.2 seconds · every figure links to its source
Meridian SME Programmes · July to September 2026For the board · 14 programmes · 1,047 businesses
312jobs added across the network, from each business’s monthly check-in
99businesses moved up a level, each signed off by a reviewer
R18.6mwon in 34 contracts, 28 of them completed with proof on file

Mokoena Construction · Midrand kerbing · R1.2m · signed contract, checked by Neo Dlamini on 2 September

31 of 60moved up a level in Women in Business, run by Savannah Growth. Supplier Readiness, run by Harbour Enterprise: 12 of 40. One measure, so the two compare.
Send to your boardDownload PDF

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412 businesses joined Meridian in its first week

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