Entrepreneur focused on growing youth-owned small businesses
Pearl Maphumulo, the founding managing director of the Business Development Agency (BDA), 30, is currently in N’Djamena, Chad, upon the invitation of the African Union’s secretariat of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), which is hosting the First International Youth Symposium on July 1 - 2 in collaboration with the government of the Republic of Chad. The young KwaZulu Natal-born (August 9, 1988) entrepreneur will participate in a high level discussion focusing on the digital economy, entrepreneurship and youth unemployment.