Introduction Opening Entrepreneurs play a very important role in the economy as they are the building blocks of a country by providing employment opportunities, producing goods and providing services to consumers. An entrepreneur is an individual or group of people (entrepreneurs) who identifies a business opportunity in a particular market and then provides a product or renders a service that meets the needs and desires of consumers. In my opinion, entrepreneurship should be promoted more and designed for younger generations as it has many different benefits, such as providing job opportunities which will lead to the fight against socio-economic problems such as poverty and unemployment, which in turn will reduce crime levels because more people will find work. Younger generations should be thought about entrepreneurial skills from an early age so that they can be exposed to entrepreneurship from an early age and the younger generation is more creative and new inventions and developments can be invented and established by them. So in this task there are 2 entrepreneurs who are famous for their business skills which brought them success in their life. It will explain why they are seen as entrepreneurs and discover the product they invented or the service they rendered that made them successful. Richard John Pelwana Maponya Why he is seen as an entrepreneur: Opening and general information: Richard Maponya was a very successful South African entrepreneur, born in Limpopo on 24 December 1926, raised in Soweto and dreamed of seeing the Soweto territory develop economically. At the age of 22 Maponya was a teacher and was offered a job as a stock clerk in a garment factory...... middle of paper ......Excom Publishers CC Title of page/article Date of document or update Home page title Available: Item URL Date accessed Google 2009 The African Millionaire: http://theafricanmillionaire.blogspot.com/2009/04/african-millionaire-of-week-become-rich.html 20 May 2014 Wikipedia 2011 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maponya May 20, 2014 Google 2013 African Success http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=431& May 21, 2014 Google 2011 Times live http ://www. timeslive.co.za/ilive/2011/08/21/africans-should-accumulate-own-wealth-ilive 21 May 2014 Wikipedia 2011 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Motsepe 21 May 2014 Google 2010 Leader http://www.leader.co.za/article.aspx?s=1&f=1&a=3442 May 21, 2014 Google 2013 Ventures http://www.ventures-africa.com/2013/03/wealthy-donors-in -south-africa-giving-is-a-way-of-life/ May 22, 2014 World Wide Web: