How two young entrepreneurs turned their passion for healthy eating into Cape Town’s favourite conscious living destination! Let’s roll back the years…you’re out and craving something genuinely healthy to eat, not the “healthy” that comes with a side of guilt or tastes like cardboard, but real, wholesome food that makes you feel good. Five years ago in Cape Town, that picture was pretty much a fantasy. Enter Candice Coles, a young entrepreneur who decided to stop dreaming and start doing. What started as a tiny café on Loop Street has blossomed into something much bigger than Candice could have imagined.
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Meet Amber Penney, the 27-year-old Cape Town entrepreneur who is working with the rest of the FARO team to turn the global overstock crisis into South Africa’s coolest outlet chain. Picture this: Billions of rands worth of perfectly good clothes just sitting in warehouses, waiting to become landfill fodder. Meanwhile, South Africans are eyeing those gorgeous Zara and G-Star pieces but wincing at the price tags. Enter Amber and her FARO Africa crew. Amber’s no stranger to pressure. She played for South Africa in high-level water polo, including multiple representations at the Aquatic World Championships, World Cups and Olympic qualifiers,
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South African small businesses are experiencing an unprecedented boom, with new insights from Yoco’s 2025 Exchange report showing how strategic digital adoption is reshaping their success. Over the past year, more than 200,000 entrepreneurs processed 173 million transactions, driving over half a billion rand in measurable growth. Katlego Maphai, CEO of Yoco, captures this perfectly: “Small businesses are the heartbeat of our economy. What we’re seeing in our data isn’t just resilience, it’s a transformation of how entrepreneurs operate, compete, and win.” Retail Leads the Way Retail merchants leveraging Yoco’s tools have generated an impressive R74 million in revenue growth.
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