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This week on the Bhoza Podcast we catch up with Lethabo Mokoena of Walk Fresh a pioneer who established a sneaker cleaning business that is aiming at franchising and establishing a new industry. His journey inspires young people in the townships and his business is being replicated across the country by young people seeing opportunities to create jobs for themselves by washing sneakers.

The authority in youth culture and lifestyle Bonga Mpungose takes us through running a business with friends, turning down investors and understanding the difference between a brand and a business.

Tlhompo Mokeona can hardly cook, neither is he an expert on the art of waitering. He has no culinary qualification. 7 years ago he started a business he had no prior knowledge of. Today The Wing republic gross above a millions, although he will not admit it in person. There are two restaurants in Braamfontein and Pretoria CBD, a cocktail bar, and mobile truck. In this episode of Nomayini Bhoza Podcast with Banele Rewo, Tlhompo will teach us how we he established a restaurant with delicious dishes, learned customer service, and what makes The Wing Republic successful. We met at Wing republic Plus, the cocktail bar and Braam. He started at Locrate in Soweto, and thisTlhompo Mokeona can hardly cook, neither is he an expert on the art of waitering. He has no culinary qualification. 7 years ago he started a business he had no prior knowledge of. Today The Wing republic gross above millions, although he will not admit it in person. There are two restaurants in Braamfontein and Pretoria CBD, a cocktail bar, and mobile truck. In this episode of Nomayini Bhoza Podcast with Banele Rewo, Tlhompo will teach us how he established a restaurant with delicious dishes, learned customer service, and what makes The Wing Republic successful. We met at Wing republic Plus, the cocktail bar in Braam. 

He showcased at Mercedes Benz Berlin 2019, Nasty C is wearing his designs but that was not his biggest moment in his career. He has dressed , Anatii, Scoop Makhathini and he is curated on Beyonce’s list of African businesses in 2020. He tells us how a customer, a politician, with bodyguards came to his mother's house for an order and that was the first and only time he was star struck.He refused to be a designer that focuses on money and short cuts. He has no respect for money even though he spent a lot of time broke but chose to focus on the craft. He won GQ Scouting Menswear in 2016 just before giving up.

Key Moments

13:10 Floyd is introduced to design and patterns

18:00 Growing up in a bad environment

30:30 “I have no respect for money”

30:20 “I was about to give up fashion and design”

43:00 “I have overpaid the dues, the dues owe me money”

50:45 “I was terrible at business ” [in 2019]

55: 30 Understanding where your market is

58:00 The difference between a luxury brand and a premium brand

1:01:03 “I dropped out, fashion school had nothing to teach me. I was already getting orders”

1:11:40 Going to business school in 2019 and learning about the systems being an important core of business

1:20:30 Dealing with investors and making your business investible 

1: 31:17 Power, Money, and the Value Chain.

1:40:00 The textile industry for a South African designer

In the first of two episodes, Lethabo Mokoena takes us through social media fatigue, how entrepreneurs can negotiate with big brands, how to price yourself in the boardroom and stay alive and not die for entrepreneurship. The episode had to be cut short and we promise to deliver the full length one. For now, there is still plenty you will learn inside.