Woman Power: Lady Starts Fat Cake Business with Wheelbarrow, Hires 2 People

Woman Power: Lady Starts Fat Cake Business with Wheelbarrow, Hires 2 People

  • A beautiful young woman has received tons of congratulatory messages from South Africans as she shared her story
  • Tumelo Motau started her own business by selling fat cakes on a wheelbarrow and has now hired two employees
  • Briefly News shared her inspiring story and readers could not be more impressed by her hard work and determination

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The entrepreneurial dream may seem too evasive for most people but for 34-year-old Limpopo chef, Tumelo Motau, it became a way of life as she does what many are too afraid to attempt acting as an example for South Africans, emphasising that anything is possible through hard work dedication and persistence

Dating back five years to 2016, Tumelo Motau opened a much-needed bakery. Lack of funding and perhaps convenience led her to open the bakery at her home whilst making use of a wheelbarrow to transport and sell the bread.

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Tumelo Motau hard work has begun to pay off as she is now the proud owner of a bakkie that she purchased not that long ago.

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This young lady started her own business by selling fat cakes and now has two employees. Image: Tumelo Motau
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The bakkie along with her two employees allows her to provide her goods to tuckshops with bread, bread rolls and fat cakes being among her most popular items has just recently bought a bakkie and now supplies her products in tuckshops in the area. She sells bread products as well. She now also employs two people.

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Briefly News readers' responses

Mashile Nebo said:

"When we celebrate Youth Day, we celebrate young people like Tumelo. I salute."

Medupe Kgosietsile wrote:

"Really we need to swallow our pride and move out of our comfort zone, we can make it if we keep on trying, big up to our sister."

Aphiwe MaDlamini Phiri added:

"Indeed she is an inspiration to us. Big up to her."

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Ntsiki Mazizi Ndinisa shared:

With that kind of determination, soon she will own a big truck and supply well-known supermarkets. Big up to you sisi."

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Female entrepreneurs

Previously, Briefly News reported that a beautiful woman took to social media to share stunning snaps of her incredible new shoe business. It's clear the stunner has worked long and hard for her dreams, finally overseeing the everyday operations of her new business.

@AminaMuaddi took to Twitter to share the sweet news, flexing her new venture for her many social media followers. The hands-on entrepreneur is overseeing the production of many parts throughout her small operation, and she's definitely looking cute doing it.

"Whenever I’m here I remember that I made my dreams come true," she captioned the inspirational post.

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