South Africa: The Little Charcoal Business Run By a Group of Young People in Matatiele

Eight young people from a small village in the Eastern Cape are making a living producing and selling charcoal from invasive trees.

For the last ten months they have been paid R1,800 each by business start-up company Avocado Vision. Project coordinator Mpho Monyai said the contract was to have come to an end on 31 May but was extended to the end of June. Nthabeleng Olifant, the only woman in the team, has been there since last year."I am doing almost everything that the male colleagues are doing beside the chainsaw, which I am unable to operate, and carrying the barrels because they are too heavy. I am now taking care of my two children," said Olifant.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.

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