Bafokeng Business Network
Sell to more buyers.
Know what to do next.
Grow with RBED.
For Bafokeng businesses and farmers, in all 29 villages: 750 businesses and counting.
1Sell to more buyers
A store buyers can find, the day you join.
Mothusi drafts it from what you sell, with your prices and photos. Buyers in the network, and anyone with your link, order on WhatsApp, and their requests become quotes from your own prices.
LiveGrown by Thabo in Phokeng
Lesedi Greens
Fresh spinach, picked the morning you collect.
Spinach, R15 a bunch. Collect, or delivered around Phokeng.
Order on WhatsAppMpho’s Kitchen · a member, looking to buy20 bunches of spinach every Monday, delivered.
Quote from your prices- Spinach, 20 bunches
- R260
- Delivery, Mondays
- R40
- A week
- R300
✓Mpho accepted. Your first paying customer on record.
Product UI · illustrative data
2Know what to do next
Mothusi tells you the next step, and what it opens.
Eight missions take a business from just starting to trading properly. Each proves something buyers, funders and RBED’s programmes ask for, and each ends with a stamp and something to show.
Next, by what it opens. One paying customer, proved end to end. Two buyers’ requests in the network ask for it.- 1✓Business identity
- 2✓Your offer, and how customers find you
- 3✓Tax, registration and permits
- 4✓Business money, separate and visible
- 5✓How the work gets done, and by whom
- 6✓Ownership and authority
- 7One paying customer, end to end
- 8One full month, everything in and out
Product UI · illustrative data
3Grow with RBED
Programmes, training, and a say in what comes next.
RBED runs programmes for its members, brings in partners, and asks local businesses what they need. This is some of what it has reported in its news this year.
Programme · ten weeksHeavyChef bootcamp, with FNBFrom informal operations to a professional enterprise. RBED was the first in the North West to roll it out with FNB.- Agri ProgrammeThe Hydro Chick ProjectBorakhunou Farming Enterprise joined in July 2025 and received training, a hydro coop and 60 broiler chicks.
- Regional dialoguesFarming dialoguesRBI, RBED and Moumo, working towards a one-stop service centre for the community.
- All news from RBED →
4The network
750 Bafokeng businesses, open to buyers.
5Their stories
From 120 spinach seedlings to over 50,000.
Ms Tshidiso Khunou started Borakhunou Farming in October 2024 as a backyard garden in Photsaneng. Through RBED’s Agri Programme she learned seed germination, drip irrigation and shade nets. Today she supplies fresh vegetables and chickens to shops and local markets.
Read her story →