Meet the man making spinach into a township empire

18 September 2016 - 02:00
By Roberta Thatcher

Spinach King Lufefe Nomjana is good with the green stuff, writes Roberta ThatcherWhy are you called the Spinach King?I travel through the townships promoting spinach. The local community ordained me as the Spinach King of Khayelitsha when I invented a bread made with spinach. We sold this home-made bread door-to-door, then we used spare facilities at a Spar bakery, and started crowd-funding to raise money for delivery bicycles.

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