{"id":45957,"date":"2023-02-16T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/young-man-bakes-for-better-future-20230215\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:08:15","slug":"young-man-bakes-for-better-future-20230215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/young-man-bakes-for-better-future-20230215\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Despatch man bakes for better future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mandlenkosi Bill (19) is the owner of a bread business named Isonka and he supplies three spaza shops around Despatch with bread and delivers freshly baked bread to people\u2019s doorsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsonka is a Xhosa word for bread. We thought of a word that defines who we are as AmaXhosa,\u201d said Mandlenkosi, who saved up money from part time jobs to start his own business. \u201cI bought all the basic equipment needed to bake bread and started on a small scale. My mother who bakes birthday cakes, taught me the skill of baking. That is how the love for baking took over my life for now.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He bakes golden sweet bread with raisins and is assisted by three persons he employed. He also assists his mother, Phumla Julia Benelwa, with her cake baking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can bake only 30 loaves of bread daily. That is the maximum that our home oven can handle. It is very time consuming to bake in a standard oven owing to its restricted capacity. I am working towards the ideal to earn enough, or to get investors, so that I can obtain a larger premises with larger equipment. Then I can start to employ more people from different communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_25a570e8\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bread, baking, young man\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/2337\/39b99c1856b94a54b2c4f4c2beda4950.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/fde5ab09e65b4b0089109031e3f17b45.jpg\" title=\"Mandlenkosi Bill is the owner of a bread business named Isonka and he delivers freshly baked golden sweet bread with raisins to customers in Despatch.  \"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Mandlenkosi Bill is the owner of a bread business named Isonka and he delivers freshly baked golden sweet bread with raisins to customers in Despatch.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he enjoys delivering bread to people\u2019s doorsteps, \u201cIt is good engagement with customers. 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