Media Entrepreneur Starts at A
By: Siphokuhle Mpanza
Twitter: Siphokuhle Mpanza
Email: 061spho@gmail.com
With all South Africa's societal issues, hunger, and
high unemployment rates. It is admirable to come across young people who know
their rights and have no sense of entitlement. Simiso Mngomezulu (23) is the
creator of Mreva Media, a photography and filmmaking company.
His story is an inspirational one, at the age of 19 in
2018, he started his media journey. When he was still a high school student, he
used his spare time to self-equip himself with camera operating skills and
software’s for editing. He did most of his learning virtually on YouTube. He
was born and bred in Nembe situated in Mandeni, where he said that he grew up
not knowing of any photographer.
His organisation captures both still and moving images
for any given need. So far, his firm employs 5 workers of any gender. He has
worked through studying other people's work and utilising social media. He
began as a street photographer at a nearby mall, and his practise has resulted
in the high-quality work he produces now.
That is the beginning of his media entrepreneur
career. He has faced a lot of challenges that has learnt to deal with
accordingly, the first one being time. Some clients do not respect scheduled times,
they fail to stick to it, he said.
He added that there are glitches with payment times
such that they are not only a bit underpaid, but clients take their time to
remunerate them.
What inspired his company name was his own nickname
“Mreva’’ slang for Reverend, which he got because he used to motivate his
uncles to go to church. Although some call him Mreva, some refer to him by his
self-given nick name ‘’Umshuthi ongadumile’’ meaning an unpopular photographer.
He said that he wanted his work to shout for itself
before he could even take credit.
He is a generous young businessman; he has an
initiative to give back to his community because they are the main supporters
of his work. He donates school shoes to local pupils which is helpful to kids
from needy environments.
Indirectly he motivates pupils to feel equal and
continue attending school and no excuses. : Give yourself to learn, know how to
do things,’’ those were the words of advice for all potential media
entrepreneurs from Simiso.
Please find the link attached below for the relevant
Podcast episode.
Listen to the
most recent episode of my podcast: Media entrepreneur https://anchor.fm/sphokuhle-mthunzi/episodes/Media-entrepreneur-e26s1ir
For more info. contact Simiso @ mrevasimiso17@gmail.com or 079 048 1198 or Facebook Mreva photos.
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