Dennis Molewa discovers proudly African coffee and cuisine in Woodstock, Long Street and Sea Point, where The Mother City has been hiding some of her most authentic culinary gems.

At the beginning of 2005, Tumssa was selling shoes in Pretoria, dreaming of ways to grow and expand his business. He met Netsi, and over the past 13 years they’ve become the biggest supplier here of traditional Ethiopian products. They’re also successful restaurateurs and spice traders, who’ve significantly shaped the Ethiopian food culture in Joburg.

From cutting hair to chopping onions, Bebe Rose Honorine has found her real passion: food and cooking. Her famous jollof rice is just one of many delectable dishes drawing a crowd to her Cameroonian eatery in Cape Town Like so many, Bebe Rose Honorine immigrated from Cameroon to SA in 1994 in search of greener pastures.

Few people know that it was Jodit Abidara’s older sister, Fasika, who opened the first traditional Ethiopian restaurant, Habesha, in Castle Street in the early 2000s. Since then numerous well-established Ethiopian restaurants have popped up around Cape Town’s bustling CBD. Most of them have had enough financial capital to create renowned institutions, which mainly target Western taste buds and tourists. Consequently, over the past 13 years, many Capetonians have become acquainted with injera,…

Which problem is FoodPrint lab trying to tackle? There are about 32 million small holders (farming to eat but have surplus to sell) or subsistence farmers (farming for survival) in Africa and they produce about 70% of the continent’s food supply.

So far, our Food System Heroes series has featured entrepreneurs who are currently enrolled in our #FoodSystem incubation program. However, this week we decided to dedicate our blog post to one of our mentors, Jade Orgill.