Entrepreneurial action for the KwaZulu-Natal community
Students across all five UKZN campuses building enterprises that answer real problems, in safety, sanitation, sustainability and livelihoods.
Bhekithemba Dlamini President, Enactus UKZN
Welcome to Enactus UKZN
Our drive: Enactus UKZN is a student-led organisation that uses entrepreneurial action to improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in KwaZulu-Natal. We turn coursework thinking into working enterprises.
Focus areas: Community safety, environmental sustainability, sanitation and hygiene, and youth employability, each carried by a project team drawn from across the five campuses.
How we work: Teams are guided by faculty advisors and business mentors, present annually at the Enactus South Africa National Exposition, and are judged on measurable community impact rather than ideas alone.
Our enterprises
Three student-run projects trading right now, each answering a specific community need.
Join the team
Applications are open to registered UKZN students on every campus, in any programme.
Partner with us
Fund a pilot, mentor a team, or open a route to market for a young enterprise.
Projects running this year
A low-cost personal panic alert that connects students and residents to a vetted response network from any mobile phone.
Spent coffee grounds collected from campus cafés and turned into fire logs, grow media and a small-scale supply business.
Affordable hygiene packs and school-level sanitation education, distributed through a network of community sales agents.
Latest from the team
Enactus UKZN places at the National Exposition
Three teams presented to a panel of business judges in Johannesburg; MyPanic advanced to the final round.
EcoBrew Cycle signs its first café route
A weekly collection route across campus food outlets now diverts spent coffee grounds from landfill.
Recruitment opens for the 2027 intake
Information sessions run on all five campuses through August, with applications closing in September.
Back a student enterprise
Our partners fund pilots, mentor teams and open doors to market. Sponsorship can be financial, in-kind or advisory.
Applications for the 2027 intake are open
Open to registered UKZN students on any campus, in any programme.