It took a year for customers to smell the coffee

Aug 15 2017 16:14 Liziwe Ndalana

Gcobani Gogoba and his girlfriend, Ntombizodwa Skuza, started selling four cups of coffee a day from the boot of their car. Today they sell about 200 cups a day. (Pic: Zukile Daniel, News24)

Cape Town – After working in the hospitality industry for four years, Gcobani Gogoba started toying with the idea of having his own coffee selling business in the townships.

The idea of bringing the kind of coffee sold in the city centre to the townships started to haunt him.

But many fears clouded his dream.

“You think of getting robbed and killed, you think it won’t work… of leaving the job that you love… so many fears in front of you that make the dream not so clear,” the 29-year-old entrepreneur told Fin24 at his coffee shop in Philippi Village.

His first coffee station was and still is operated from the boot of a car at Nyanga Junction train station.