Free books and tools for kasi businesses, community organisations and ECD centres. Plain words, no jargon. Download, print, share - all free.
Community organisations - new
NPO in plain English
Good work. Clear records. Still room for a laugh. A colourful notebook companion with familiar stories, plain explanations and tools for people doing useful things together. 31 pages.
ECD centres - new
ECD in plain English
Teacher Fusi helps us ask the useful questions. Familiar creche scenes, plain explanations and practical tools about registration, safety, play, family records and the team. 28 pages.
Learning companion, not an official registration pack.
Spaza shops - new
Spaza support in plain English
Gogo Dineo hears about support while buying stock. What is the Spaza Shop Support Fund package, what does it offer, and what is your next step? Familiar shop scenes, plain explanations and tools to print. 28 pages.
Learning companion, not an official application pack or funding offer.
Starting a business - new
Kasi Business Playbook
A practical guide to starting and running a successful business in the township. 21 chapters, teaching stories and a printable offer worksheet. 68 pages.
Learning companion. The stories are teaching examples.
Business skills - new
Cost Your Product Right
Bra Vusi sells kotas outside the rank and Mama Rose sells scones across the road. Busy is not the same as paid: count what one really costs, then price it in the open. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Business skills - new
Phone Photos & Simple Posters
Sis Palesa and Uncle Sol show how to take phone photos that sell the plate, and make simple posters people remember. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Business skills - new
Customer List & Follow-up
Busi and Bra Lucky keep a customer list the right way - POPIA in plain words - and follow up so customers come back. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Business skills - new
Digital Payments & Records
Zanele and Bra Mandla get paid by phone, dodge the screenshot trap, and keep records that save the month-end. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Business skills - new
Stock & Ordering
Auntie Busi and Thabo keep the right stock on the shelf at the right time, without money sleeping in boxes. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Business skills - new
Register & Tax in Plain Words
Jabu and Palesa face CIPC, SARS and the paperwork - what matters and what is just noise, in plain words. 17 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Book 4
Rules of the Street
Joburg's informal trading by-laws in plain kasi words, with township cartoons. Where you may trade, the 5-metre rule, keeping your spot clean, and what to do if officials take your stock - including the receipt they must give you. 16 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Book 3
Get Found Get Customers
Google, WhatsApp Business, Facebook and your free SBD listing - one small job a day for 7 days, in plain words, with cartoons. 21 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Book 2
The SBD Finance book
Money talk, kasi style, with cartoons you will laugh at because they are true. The till is not your wallet, the notebook is your finance system, and the taxi driver with money in his socks. 24 pages. By Mendi Taukwena.
Shop Money Tool (Excel)
The two tools from the finance book in one Excel file: a month budget (money in, money out, your wage, what is left) and a savings goal that tells you how many months to that fridge. Comes with an example you can delete.
Printable money sheets (PDF)
No computer? Print these two pages and fill them in with a pen: the month money sheet and the savings goal sheet. Same tools, paper version.
Book 1
Put Your Business on the Map
Our first free ebook: a plain-words kasi guide to getting customers online, by Mendi Taukwena. Read it here page by page, or take the PDF.