{"id":18369,"date":"2025-12-12T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/?p=18369"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:50:04","slug":"makhaotse-narasimulu-associates-celebrates-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/makhaotse-narasimulu-associates-celebrates-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Makhaotse, Narasimulu &#038; Associates Celebrates 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><em>12 December 2025<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Celebrating 25 years in the consulting engineering sector, Makhaotse, Narasimulu &amp; Associates (MNA) says the lessons it learned while navigating early structural and economic challenges now offer a blueprint for how emerging or new businesses can survive and scale in South Africa\u2019s increasingly competitive environment.<\/p>\n<p>This year, MNA company marks its silver anniversary \u2013 established in 2000 in KwaZulu-Natal, MNA has since expanded its footprint to six offices across South Africa, including the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo and the Free State.<\/p>\n<p>Founding directors <strong>Martin Makhaotse <\/strong>and <strong>Sagren Narasimulu<\/strong>\u00a0began their journey as young civil engineers determined to build a firm that would create employment opportunities, mentor and skill young engineers and contribute to infrastructure delivery in South Africa. &#8220;We were in our early 30s when we set up the company. There were already large established firms, and many doubted whether a start-up with just two people could survive,&#8221; Narasimulu explains<strong>.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Click <\/strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4aa460d15553ad1a481812177\/files\/d0f4aaad-ad44-abef-82e1-bc94a37efcf1\/20251212_Makhaotse_amp_Narasimulu_Associates_Celebrates_25_Years_final.docx\">here<\/a><\/u><strong>\u00a0to download\u00a0the article in a Word document format.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 December 2025\u00a0\u2013 Celebrating 25 years in the consulting engineering sector, Makhaotse, Narasimulu &#038; Associates (MNA) says the lessons it learned while navigating early structural and economic challenges now offer a blueprint for how emerging or new businesses can survive and scale in South Africa\u2019s increasingly competitive environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mna","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18371,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions\/18371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swmcommunications.co.za\/press-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}