FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD

It’s been a long and winding road for Fortunate Nkateko Khoza – from studying information technology (IT) and telephonically selling fruit and vegetables to supermarkets, to working as an orders clerk and a marketing consultant – but she never imagined herself owning a clothing line.

Affectionately known as Lufi, Khoza was born in Acornhoek, a town in the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality in Mpumalanga.

Speaking to City Press at her recently opened Lufi Boutique Salon and Day Spa in Rosebank, Johannesburg, Khoza tells City Press that she came to the city as a 17-year-old in 2002.

“And, 18 years later, I am still here, building businesses in the Johannesburg CBD and in Rosebank.”

Now 35 years old, Khoza says that, while her clothing brand –