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    One agripreneur, two enterprises. Success despite the odds!

    Nov 02, 2020 3 minutes
    Jeandré van der Walt reports.

    “When one door closes, another one opens,” says Ncumisa Mkabile of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, who started not one, but two new enterprises after being forced to close her catering business in March.

    “Unfortunately, I had to close due to limited trade brought about by the COVID-19 lockdown regulations. The company was my only source of income, so I had to make plans to find an alternative source of income.”

    Mkabile started looking around for opportunities and realised there was a market for chicken in her community. “I used money from my savings and started

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