Pinetown local shares how she started an international business with R389

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Ntando Thabethe left her full-time job and started growing a different dream.

She lives in Pinetown, KZN, and she used to have a stable job in mechanical engineering sales.

Unfortunately, her company decided to move their premises, from Pinetown to Johannesburg. This would mean that Ntando would have to uproot her family and move too if she wanted to keep the job.

Family commitments kept her from relocating, she was left unemployed and her husband was now the sole provider of the house.

Ntando realised that a plan needed to be made. She had to help feed her family and she would have never guessed that her very basic plan would turn into a fully-fledged business!
29 Jun 2021 English South Africa Society & Culture · Personal Journals

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