Designed and Made in South Africa: By Africans for Africa !

Lighting up Africa!

Business overview:

Bringing light to Africa

Bringing light and electric power to the rural, underserviced areas of KZN and beyond, using locally manufactured and assembled solar PV systems based on completed R & D and pilot production units already in successful service.

SupaSonic Management Team Assembly Plant Management: Easy Solar R’Bay

Administration NewCo

Marketing & Distribution:

NewCo

Field Installations:

10*SME Teams

Training The Trainers

The ZCSD/ RCH Co

FET Colleges: Mainly KZN &

E Cape

Procurement RCH Com +

NewCo

R & D

Paul Lintott (RCH Comms)

Franchising & Replication:

ARDC & Live Energy

Consumer-

retail financing:

Ithala Bank

Markets:

Supply into 3 main markets:

1. Utility 12v Unit: [Local government sales channel].

2. SupaSonic 24v Modular- system: [Instalment sales –Ithala Bank etc].

3. eChaja 24v “Business-in-a-box”: [ Cash and Instalment sales].

The SupaSonic Products:

Uti-Lite Utility 2 x 12v Lights + Cellphone Charger [Municipal indigent market]

E-Chaja: 24 v Off-grid Cellphone Charging system, Point of sale, lights etc “Business–in-a-Box”!

SupaSonic Modular Systems: 24v solar PV panel control box Lights and cell-phone charger

Add-ons: extra battery packs, PV Panels TV, Tablet PC, cooler fridge, Microwave oven, DC electric iron, home entertainment systems etc

A. Train and Start-up Development Center:

B. Develop rural distribution& assembly facilities: via existing successful operation (TSAZ-Chem City).

C. Align with the FET Skills development modules;

D. Replicate; [10 KZN Districts plus other in E Cape etc.]!

E. Centralise procurement: (control and cost-reduction).

F. Utilise Banks ; [Ithala etc for consumer finance as arranged].

Business Model

Strategic relationships

KZN Province Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs.

RCH Communications CC:

TCC cc Swaziland:

Mdima) Renewables: FET Colleges

Ithala Bank:

CoGTA/Mshwati Local Municipality:

Amandla Resources:

KZN DEDT & TIKZN: ZCSD NGO:

The ZCSD NGO

Competition? SupaSonic’s competitors:

1. Eskom – where there is grid-electricity.

2. Imported low-priced poor-quality goods.

3. Paraffin and lamp-oil lights and candles

4. Gensets:

5. Do-it-yourself

6. Copy-cat market intruders

Barriers to entry: The completed R &D and the IP : RESOLVED!

Secure the volume-based production orders

Cost & Action of acquiring set-up facility and assembly Equipment:

Cost of stock for assembly operations;

Get the up-skilling programme under way:

Financial overview (Pilot): First phase Assembly plant: Year one R 10,000,000

R 5,000,000 for establishment, facilities rental, training and initial production through to, distribution and installations by month 8.

R 2,500,000 for operating capital (essentially for components stock). R 2,500.000 Project administration, Quality assurance, mentoring.

First full year of operation: Gross Turnover: R 45,000,000 EBIDTA: R11,600,000

People employed: 60 direct!

Training & QC =4 Assemblers =30 5 Install crews =10 Admin / Marketing = 6 Trainee assemblers = 10

Use of Capital

1. Acquire production facilities (rental). 2. Training the assembly teams 3. Also train the installers’ teams 4. Procure components for assembly 5. Move into 1 shift/Day production and 6. Installations 7. Ramp up to 50 completed systems /day;

(by end of month three = 1000/month)! 8. Refine assembly to expand to additional output or… 9. Extend training and assembly to 2nd and 3rd assembly facilities 10. & other replication sites for KZN Districts. 11. Consider / Implement Phase 2

(for a centralised manufacturing unit at iSithebe or R’Bay SEZ).

Capital and Valuation The Payoffs:

R 11.6m full-year EBIDTA for each 1000/month production unit, once fully operational - (24v SupaSonic System – other models have different outcomes). Replication to 10 KZN / E Cape districts by year three;

(EBIDTA raised to R116 m p.a.).

Product: Adoption of a wider range of market-ready products and services and expand manufacture to a central manufacturing (units at iSithebe or R’Bay IDZ and/or E Cape SEZ).

Cost Reduction:

through volume production that will raise EBIDTA!