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Four friends, one table, and a payments system rebuilt around the businesses banks overlooked.
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One new story every Tuesday, from 9 June through 28 July 2026.
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Read now A Cheeky Bet
How two men who knew nothing about restaurants took peri-peri chicken to the world.
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Read now Her Name on the Line
A loan shark funded the first Tashas. Twenty years later, a war in the Middle East nearly took it away.
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George Sombonos built a fried chicken chain on a $1,000 untested recipe and a franchise-light model.
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Read now Nobody to Ask
Theo Baloyi opened 24 stores during a pandemic because he had taken no outside money, and nobody could tell him not to.
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Coming soon His Mother's Knitting Machine
How Laduma Ngxokolo turned Xhosa beadwork into global luxury.
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The brothers who out-brewed the cities by starting in overlooked small towns.
Coming soon Either a Big Success or a Small Failure
How a Stellenbosch outsider banked the overlooked and challenged the Big Four.