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SHE’S THE SPINACH QUEEN

HER dream was simple: to be her own boss. She wasn’t sure how she was going to do it, only that she was going to do it.

And so Ncumisa Mkabile took a huge leap of faith and quit her stable job as secretary at Sivuyiseni Public Primary School in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, with no clear vision of what she wanted to do.

“I just knew I wanted to be self-employed. I had no idea that this is where I’d end up today,” she tells YOU.

Less than a year later, that dream has landed Ncumisa her own small farm in Mfuleni near the Mother City which is bursting with bright

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