About the founder, Sizwe Mnamatha
Sizwe Mnamatha was born and riased in kwa noBuhle, Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. He was introduced to vermicomposting by Prof. Tony Booth at Rhodes University in 2009.
Since then, Sizwe has recieved many awards, support and nominations. These include Pitch + Polish- SA FM 2011, NU Socia Enterprise- TSIBA, GIBS festival of ideas 2014 and 2015, GAP innovation competition 2014. he has recieved support fromthe agriculture departments in both the Eastern cape and Western cape.
Sizwe worked at Telkom holding different positions in different service organisations. After leaving Telkom to study further, he started a business to address social problems of people living off waste dumps.
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Sizwe Mnamatha
Sizwe combined his sensitivity for the needs of Africa, with a sound and visionary understanding of business practices that bring much needed jobs, food security, eliminating pollution, reducing carbon foot print and giving back dignity and security to the people of Africa.
Sizwe encourages self employment by sharing and engaging individuals to recognize resources that are freely available to them, resources perceived as waste to create wealth. |
Sizwe's inspiration comes from his late grandmother Nqabisa Habana. She gave him valuable first hand knowledge and experiance of living off the land, where they stayed in a rondavel in Mhlangamisweni, Libode. They had no electricity, running water and toilets. the locals in Mhlangamisweni referd to their home as "Emyelweni"- Garden of Eden. It pains Sizwe to meet and see people from Ncorha and Qoboqobo abandon their fertile land to go work the gardens in Hout Bay, La Lucia and Sandhurst. It is even more painfully For Sizwe when he sees these people having to find food in rubbish bins.