UCT Upstarts is the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Innovation Challenge. It’s a joint-initiative between UCT, the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Super Stage. UCT Upstarts is igniting a ‘Student Start-up Nation’ by creating a parallel university experience – one that produces a generation of both graduates and social entrepreneurs - who solve real-world problems from campus, and launch start-up realities beyond it. UCT Upstarts is building a ‘Social Innovation Culture’ that literally does make Africa work better and is helping to create an ‘Innovation Economy’ that actually does create jobs – starting from campus!

1. VISION
WHERE EVERY RIVER WILL BE CLEAN!

2. A NET TO LITTER OUT OF THE RIVER

3. ULTIMATE GOAL
Flow of River

4. TESTING OUTCOME
• Tested in the Liesbeek River
• Friends of the Liesbeek
• Net tested for 2 hours
• Collected bottles, tires, packets, etc.
• This net removes litter from the river without
harming the ecosystem.

5. ASSUMPTIONS & EXPECTATIONS
• Community projects
• Government will assist
• Rivers will be litter free

6. • Government
• Private sector
(farms)
• Recycling
companies
Main Clients Revenue Stream:
• 1 to 3 year rental
contracts
• Once off sales
• Monthly maintenance

7. THANK YOU