Partnerships put mohair farmer on winning track
One day, after quitting his studies in 1997 and moving back home, Sindile Lloyd James asked his mother for money to buy a pair of shoes. Her response served as a wake-up call for James that life wasn’t going to be as easy as he thought. “She basically told me that I was old enough to fend for myself,” he recalls.
James pulled himself together and got a job at a shop in his home town of Pearston in the Eastern Cape, where he earned “a measly R70 [about R258] a week”. Fortunately, the shop owner spotted that he was a quick learner and good with people, so promoted him to a client services position after only a few months on the job.
But James wanted more out of life than a nine-to-five job. He had always loved reading, especially the Sunday newspapers, and in this way he learnt about becoming an entrepreneur.
His father owned a fencing business, so the two started tendering together for fencing jobs. Eventually, after gaining
