
We Didn’t Start With Much—But We Started With Fire
Mpume comes from the township of Lamontville in Durban. Saskia comes from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats. Two different places. Same story in so many ways. We didn’t grow up around entrepreneurship. We didn’t have access to rooms where strategy was casually discussed over tea, or where generational wealth softened the edges of risk. What we did have was something far less visible – but far more powerful. We had mothers who carried worlds on their backs.
Single mothers.
Women who made a plan where there was none.
Women who held homes together with faith, grit, and an unspoken agreement with life that said: “No matter what, my children will keep going.”
And so we did.

