Abstract:
This article explores the role of effective entrepreneurial education in township communities,
to address some of the economic challenges facing poor township communities. Effective
entrepreneurial education has the potential to ignite economic transformation in township
communities. This effective entrepreneurial enterprise should be based on the understanding
of whole education principles. This article also explores the role of the social missional
entrepreneurial church by applying effective enterprises that would run entrepreneurial
activities in township communities. The social missional entrepreneurial church understands
that it should approach its mission holistically; ‘holistic’ here referring to the spiritual, physical,
mental, social, emotional and economic spheres. This explorative study aims at understanding
how to implement the social missional entrepreneurial enterprises in township communities.
It explores effective entrepreneurial programmes that could be an engine in transforming the
township communities. It focuses on the definition of education, specifically entrepreneurship
education, and how can it be implemented effectively. This entrepreneurship education should
resonate with those who live in township communities. It should address the needs and
challenges that face township communities. The article will also explore the meaning of the
township economy. It will examine the role of Churchpreneur, which refers to the social
missional entrepreneurial church in the spotlight, and how this kind of church can be a place
where entrepreneurial education is promoted.
Description:
Dr Manyaka-Boshielo is
participating in the research
project, ‘Towards a practical
postfoundational theology as
public theology in response
to the challenges of lived
religion in contemporary
Southern Africa’, directed by
Prof. Dr Johann Meylahn,
Department Practical
Theology, Faculty of Theology
and Religion, University of
Pretoria.
