What South Africa is watching right now
Themba started tutoring five children under a tree in 2019. Today his Saturday classes run in three halls. A short documentary about what one person can hold together.
R14 000 starting capital, one container, thirty days. Here is the daily ledger, the mistakes, and what actually made money.
Same load, same road, same driver. We take both bakkies up the Sani Pass and measure fuel, comfort and how much the warranty actually covers.
A 22-year-old workhorse with 480 000 km on the clock. What it costs to keep one of these on the road for another decade.
Data, airtime and electricity — the smallest margins in the country. A month of real transactions, fees included.
Two bedrooms, a generator, a levy that hurts and a view you pay for. No staging, no music, just the agent's real numbers.
Alibaba, a freight forwarder and R38 000 at risk. The full landed-cost breakdown, customs codes and the sample that never arrived.
Six people, one hatchback and the Sani Pass road. Where to stop, what it costs and whether one tank is realistic.
Four coding spaces in Soweto, Khayelitsha and Umlazi that are training the next thousand developers without a single government grant.