Is'khewu means "a gap".
We exist to close it.
A registered private company built on a simple idea: business and community upliftment are not opposites. Through three ventures working in synergy, Is'khewu uses education, skills development and creative empowerment to change what is possible for young people in the O.R. Tambo District.
Introduction
Is'khewu
(Enterprise Number 2025/694990/07)
is a diversified company with a purpose that goes beyond profit. Alongside commercial activity that keeps the business financially sustainable, we run programmes designed to give young, unemployed South Africans in Mthatha a genuine route into skills, confidence and employment.
Why now
In the O.R. Tambo District, in 2023
unemployment stood at
48.04%
82.17%
of residents live in poverty.
(Eastern Cape Department of Social Development; Statistics South Africa)