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MOSSEL BAY NEWS - To round off Women's Month, the Mossel Bay Advertiser got hold of schoolgirl entrepreneurs to find out about their enterprises.
And we discovered that business is booming.
From cake baking to photography to sewing to jewellery making, these businesses bring in good pocket money.
About 25 learner entrepreneurs told of their ventures.
The largest proportion are at Point High School, which has been lauded internationally for its Consumer Studies and Entrepreneurship teaching methodology.
Photo gallery: Schoolgirl entrepreneurs share about their enterprises
Professionalism
It is amazing to see the professionalism of the children's finished products. They are attractive and highly saleable.
Mienke de Beer (15), in Grade 10 at Curro Mossel Bay, bakes superb cakes. Her business, The Cake Corner, is on Facebook. "I taught myself from YouTube videos," she says.
"I'd like to study medicine when I finish school, but baking's my huge passion. I enjoy doing it to switch off from school work. But school work comes first, so I'm limited to baking during holidays."
Laura Violante (13) at Point High School creates remarkable earrings and keyrings from polymer clay and paints.
Her twin sister Carla also models in polymer clay, creating really cute works.
The Violante sisters, Laura (left) and Carla, are establishing themselves as artists and designers, with their own labels.
Grade 12 Point High learner Stefani Human (18) makes irresistible hot cocoa "bombs", perfect for the cold winter we have had.
For only R15, you choose between hot chocolate or Milo for the bomb centre.
Just pour hot milk over the bomb, stir and enjoy.
Stefani Human displays the outer shell of her hot cocoa bombs.
'Stock sold out'
Stefani has called her business Bee Sweet Treats. "All my stock has sold out; I'm busy making more," she said this week.
Charné Brummer is already a consummate photographer, even taking action photographs at national surfing competitions, which have been published in the Mossel Bay Advertiser.
Her business is Waterworks Photography.
One of Charné Brummer's photographs.
Shanté Greyling (18), in Grade 12 at Point, also a photographer, does photo shoots to make money.
Shante Greyling does photo shoots to make money.
Liezel Conradie of Point High makes beautiful, dainty earrings in subtle colours, from clay.
Hair scrunchies
Young Jasmin de Kock, only in Grade 8 at Point, sews hair scrunchies and charges R10 each for them.
Jasmin de Kock sews hair scrunchies.
Carisna le Roux, in Grade 10 at Curro Mossel Bay, sells chocolate brownies at businesses. She made enough money to pay for her expenses when she went to Amsterdam as part of the Protea hip hop team. Carisna also has a coin-operated coffee machine at a business, earning her money.
Carisna le Roux bakes brownies and owns a coin-operated coffee machine.
Although the spotlight is on women this month, there are boy entrepreneurs who are also notable.
Christopher Scott of Point High has invested in his father's business, so he earns five percent of the profits.
Gustav Harmsen (18), in Grade 11 at Curro Mossel Bay, works as a model part time and makes art, which he uses in photo shoots of himself.
"I also do screenwriting and I make masks," Gustav says.
* If your business venture has not been mentioned in this article, we apologise. There was not enough space. Best wishes for you and your business.
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