Now Ngcobo, 25, a fourth-year civil engineering student at the University of Stellenbosch, is the owner of a coffee roasting business called Coffee MM that sells coffee online using E-commerce and supplies restaurants and companies with fresh coffee.Ngcobo’s business was recently named the business with the most potential at the Small Business Academy programme, which is sponsored by Stellenbosch University.
He said the doctors struggled to find the cause of his blood pressure and he was told he had only10 months left to live. He says his love for coffee deepened at university when his class was given a project to choose a business they would specialise in. Ngcobo said he did more research and also focused on improving his marketing. He said things were difficult as he only had a bicycle and a grinder, which he bought for R150.