Mogau Wheel & Tyre Group addresses youth empowerment and poverty

With youth empowerment and addressing poverty as their primary goal the powerful husband and wife team of Tebogo Netshivhangani (Operations Manager) and Khomotso Mokhabukhi (Director), began their journey to success in the tyre fitment sector nine years ago. In 2011 they established Mogau Wheel & Tyre in Moletsane, Soweto and later secured a license to operate as a Supa Quick franchise. The change enabled them to improve their marketability, business processes, equipment and profitability. What began as a small enterprise has since grown into a thriving business employing 19 people. They recently converted the Moletsane outlet to a Dunlop Express and have also opened two additional outlets, one in Devland Soweto, under the Best Drive Continental franchise and a Tyremart in Booysens, Johannesburg, where their head office is located. The company also has three vans that provide roadside assistance to the trucking industry while also doing onsite repairs, alignment and fitment for trucks and other vehicles.

The company services Avis Fleet within the Barloworld Group. Barloworld Siyakhula, which supports the growth of SMMEs, has provided development financing to the Mogau Wheel & Tyre Group to acquire the building they occupy in Booysens and the development of a diversified retail centre with a restaurant, carwash, butchery and a Bosch car service facility that will add mechanical repairs to their bouquet of automotive services.