Guest : Mbuyiseli Blayi

Mbuyiseli Blayi, opened a chicken restaurant / community hub/ internet cafe/ learning
centre in Langerug outside Franschhoek in an abandoned council container. Each
month he ploughed 20% of his profits back into the community, buying school shoes
and menstrual pads and doing everything he could to help keep the children in school.
He provided computer literacy training, helped with CVs and job applications and
school work. He was constantly being threathened with eviction by the DA council and
a host of companies and individuals got together to purchased and kit out his own
container.
The council did not even manage to remove their container as arranged so this too was
undertaken by the group. He still need books for the library, school shoes, stationery,
white metal roof paint for the interior and Perspex sheets so people can sit in a
weatherproof area outside the colourful container.