Great Taste In A Box!

Nokwanda turned her job loss into an opportunity – now she’s the owner of a meal-kit delivery service

- Nonkululeko Mazibuko

She was terrified when she lost her job. Like many businesses, the company Nokwanda Zondi worked for was battling to stay afloat, thanks to the crushing impact of the coronavirus crisis.

In April, she was retrenched and her only concern was keeping the wolf from the door. “I kept thinking, what will I survive with, how will I make ends meet?” Nokwanda says.

South Africa’s economy had taken a pounding because of the pandemic and she worried she wouldn’t be able to find work. Nokwanda, who last year completed her BTech in consumer science from the Durban University of Technology, had always loved cooking so she turned to her background in food.

“I knew a lot of people were doing catering and I wanted to touch on it, but on a different scale. I wanted to bring the whole dining and restaurant feel into your own home,” she says.