While continuing to strive for professional excellence and growth, Elize Labuschagne Interiors gracefully shares its experience in interior design and in business with young people and members from disadvantaged communities.

Education

• A student, Christina Tshabalala has been sponsored for a year's full-time study in sewing, with a view to empowering her as a manager in the company's curtain-making operation
• For two years Elize presented a weekly radio talkshow aimed specifically at educating the public about interior design.
• Her presentations at the Garden & Home Academy have seen Elize being invited back time and again due to public demand.

Sub-contractors

• Jim Mhlangu has been trained over the last few years, and is now empowered to run his own independent sub-contracting business as a specialist paint technician.
• All upholstery work for the company is sub-contracted to a 100% black-owned company.
• Furniture manufacturers and curtain-makers used as sub-contractors all have at least 80% black staff.

Thusanang
This company, which name means "working together", is 25% owned by a member of a previously disadvantaged company. It was formed specifically to train someone into becoming an independent interior designer. Work is sub-contracted between this company and Elize Labuschagne Interiors.