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About MZR Business Catalysts
A catalyst makes a reaction happen faster. That's our job for your business.
MZR Business Catalysts is a South African business development company based in Roodepoort, Johannesburg. We help founders and small businesses grow through practical programmes, proper compliance and honest advice.
Built from the problems we kept seeing
MZR was founded in 2026 by Ziyaad Sallie, a registered tax practitioner. Working with entrepreneurs, he kept seeing the same pattern: good people with good products whose businesses stalled because nobody had shown them the basics. Registrations were incomplete, SARS returns were overdue, prices didn't cover costs and there were no records a bank could read.
So MZR was built around a simple sequence: build the entrepreneur, build the business, build the engine, build revenue, then build growth. Every programme we run, from a one-hour workshop to a sponsored enterprise development cohort, follows those five milestones.
We work with individual founders, with growing SMEs that need their compliance sorted, and with organisations that want their enterprise development spend to build businesses that last.
What you can expect from us
Straight answers
If you don't need a service, we'll tell you.
Compliance first
We build businesses that can stand up to a SARS audit and a due-diligence check.
Your business, not theory
Everything we teach gets applied to your real numbers.
Priced for small business
Clear, fixed prices published upfront wherever possible.
Not sure where to start? Talk to us for 20 minutes.
Tell us where your business is today. We'll tell you honestly which option fits, or if you don't need us yet.