BY KWANELE TSABEDZE
MBABANE – “Everyone had the same opportunities.”
These were the words of Siphesihle Nkwanyana was speaking on behalf of the 2023 Eswatini International Trade Fair.
Nkwanyana was speaking about how youth businesses were able to engage with the public on the same platform as big corporations in the country during this year’s Trade Fair.
“The difference was that the big businesses would take up bigger stands because they want to expose themselves – notably everyone was trying to rebrand themselves during this year’s EITF, so the corporates took the opportunity to bring their products and services to make them known to the public and they end up taking bigger spaces,” said Nkwanywana.
“The youth was able to show themselves where they needed to, nonetheless. For example. they were there among the small businesses from the food village all the way into the exhibitions hall,” said Nkwanyana.
He noted that there were also quite a number of young people who were representing the organisations they work for at the Fair, such as youth working Government, corporations, and other organisations.
There were over three hundred organisations which exhibited at the 2023 Eswatini International Trade Fair (EITF), and the national event is expected to return in September 2024.
