Born to be a shrewd entrepreneur

Writer & Photographer: Elaine Davie.

In this time of Coronavirus lockdown, just when many small business owners in the Overstrand are living in fear of having to close down, William Chiwara, a Kleinmond coffee shop owner, decided to open a second business. It is in the nature of the true entrepreneur to see opportunities where no one else does, to be willing to take a calculated risk and then to put in the hard yards to make it succeed. That, together with a warm and sunny disposition, is an accurate description of William.

When he, his wife, Florence and little girl first arrived in Kleinmond almost exactly three years ago, it was after an epic journey starting in 2008 that took them from Mutare in Zimbabwe, where William was a coffin maker, through Botswana, to Johannesburg, and then Cape Town. Everywhere they stopped, Florence and William enthusiastically plunged into a proliferation of different jobs, learning new skills and never giving up on their hopes for a better life.

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