Taking Quality Control seriously: Godza is the Quality Controller at Streetwires. He is a young man that started to work at the company on October, 2004, the first job that he had was artist and was promoted to his actual position on 2007, due to his willingness to learn and grow in the company.

On July 2008, Gonzalo started to work with three craft companies in South Africa; Streetwires (www.streetwires.co.za), Kunye (www.kunye.org), and Mielie (www.mielie.com). During his assignment, he has been helping these companies on different issues related to the business and marketing. He helped the owners and managers of these companies to draft their Marketing Strategy Plan that helped the companies to focus their businesses on the markets needs identifying their strengths and weakness.

Amashishini (Business) can do mangalisayo (amazing) things: A visit to the Xhosa Culture

I had the opportunity to meet a woman that is making amazing things for her community, promoting the Xhosa culture of South Africa. Xhosa is one of the native groups in South Africa (Nelson Mandela comes from the Xhosa region) and is also one of the eleven official languages in the country. The language uses different clicking sounds and one could identify a Xhosa from the different clicking on their speaking. There are thousands of Xhosa villages in Transkei or the Wild Coast of South Africa. One of these villages is Ngxingxolo, home of Mama Tofu.

Streetwires is delighted to announce that the founder of Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the Ernst & Young / FNB / Schwab Foundation ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year for South Africa’ for 2008.

Dear Friends,
Streetwires Spring Safari Launch
It’s not only the birds & the bees that have been buzy with spring upon us, at Streetwires we’ve been sketching, bending & spindling to put on a bit of a show ourselves. And now with a little something to show for it – we’d be delighted if you’d join [...]