Taking The Future Into Their Own Hands

Two women did not let disability stop them from succeeding as business women

- Noughty Maluleke

FOR anyone wishing to start their own business, there are a lot of challenges that await them on this journey. The challenges are even more so when you are living with a disability. But two women living with a disability, Fikile Mwelase (36) and Matshidiso Letsepe (38) are proof that you can’t beat focused and goal-driven women. They have opened Sitsi Mini Beauty Spa, which operates in Kagiso, in the West Rand, offering services such as manicures, pedicures, massages and make-up services.

THE WILL TO SUCCEED

Matshidiso, who is paralysed from the waist down, says when she was diagnosed with meningitis (swelling of the brain and spinal cord membranes caused by an infection), she was made to feel like an outcast by society and she thought that death was the only option for her.