From health and wellness products to financial solutions – the direct selling industry is a somewhat low-profile powerful Industry – having contributed a massive R7, 74-billion to South Africa’s economy in 2014 alone.
And whether it is through part time involvement or a fulltime business, there are approximately 1.4 –million people earning a living within the industry, making it a significant contributor to the economy.
The Direct Selling Association of South Africa (DSASA), the formal association for the local industry, represents 38 direct selling companies that distribute goods and services through independent direct selling distributors, to consumers, in a face-to-face model, away from fixed retail locations.
According to DSA chairman Ernest du Toit, the industry is not only an important contributor to the economy, but a key player at a time when jobs are scarce
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Network Marketing Changing Lives In Zimbabwe
by Ramya Chandrasekaran • • 0 Comments
The Herald newspaper in Zimbabwe features a young network marketing professional who changed his life through network marketing.
A few years ago, Tendai Chinoperekwei was living on the fringes.
With a banking and finance degree, an administrative job with a women’s organisation, he could only afford to stay in one room together with his family.
It was not until his then boss, Minister of Women’s Affairs Gender and Community Affairs Nyasha Chikwinya, introduced him to network marketing when it dawned on him that life had much more to offer than earning a salary.
Today, 34-year-old Tendai owns a house in the plushy suburb of Borrowdale and drives a top of the range car. All these rich trappings are part of his rewards for his high level marketing skills nurtured over the few years.
He belongs to
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Pyramid Schemes Masquerade As Direct Sellers In S Africa
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There is a thin line, nowadays, between network marketing companies, or multi-level marketing companies, and pyramid schemes. Particularly where the former has a business model that involves attracting sales agents by rewarding them for selling products to their network of friends and family, and setting up teams of other people – who also want to start their own business selling the product – and getting a percentage of their sales revenue.
People end up receiving solicitations from their friends or family to take advantage of a ‘unique opportunity’, with promises of financial independence and the allure of a lifestyle that comes with ‘being your own boss’.
“I really believe that, as an industry, it makes a difference in the lives of people that have few opportunities,” says Ernest du Toit, chairperson of the Direct Selling Association
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Sashin Govender – WorldVentures 21 Years, Hits National Marketing Director
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Sashin Govender, is 21 years old and lives in Durban, South Africa. He was 18 years old when he joined the Network Marketing industry while he was in his final year of high school.
After high school he took a year off to do WorldVentures full time. Meanwhile he has taken 39 vacations in 3 years and is WorldVentures youngest National Marketing Director, with a a team of 4,500 people in 22 countries, the average income in South Africa $400 per month.
To reach National Marketing Director in Wordventures, a distributor needs $31,500 cumulative earnings in the preceding three calendar months, $10,500/month average.
Sashin has a 3 series BMW paid for by the company which was his first car. The day he took delivery of his car was the day he got his license. His
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WorldVentures Foundation: Empowering Children In South Africa
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Consider this: a staggering 3.7 million children under the age of 18 are currently orphaned in South Africa due to HIV. For others, their families are unable to care for them financially. Couple that with malnutrition (currently at an all-time high in South Africa), and you have very critical issues that need to be brought to the forefront.
The WorldVentures Foundation™ (WVF), the philanthropic arm of WorldVentures, wanted to take an active role in helping those affected by these crises. So in February 2014, WVF collaborated with Botshabelo Community Development Trust for its first ever South African Service Day.
The event’s purpose was clear—to help educate and nourish children in South Africa. With that in mind, both organizations teamed up with Sizanani Children’s Home, an organization dedicated to developing, empowering and caring for people with disabilities, and Prettify Your Township, a project focusing on beautifying pre-schools in dilapidated conditions to encourage learning, to renovate a daycare building and a foster home, while developing a food garden in the community of Olievenhoutbosch, Gauteng to combat these issues and provide an effective solution.
In July, WorldVentures Foundation was back in South Africa for its second day of service, which was just as successful as the