Rhodes Business School recently hosted Redefine Properties executive chairman Marc Wainer, who hosts CNBC’s Mentorship Challenge. Over the course of a day and a half Wainer, who has more than 40 years’ business, investment and entrepreneurial experience, held sessions with Grahamstown school principals, enterprise management and master of business administration students, residents, grade 11 and 12 pupils and student leaders of university societies with an interest in entrepreneurship and business. He spoke about the critical role of mentorship in the lives of young people wanting to make a start in life and highlighted several mentoring facts that are so important people need constant reminders about them. Many people have had the benefit of a formal or informal mentor at some stage, and they need to give back. Wherever he presents, just as he does on the Mentorship Challenge, Wainer challenges all people with a track record of excellence to offer mentoring hours. They can do this ...

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