If you are passionate about your business, you will thrive. Being in business must involve more than growing your bank account. This is the belief of Mmule Matlala, CEO and founder of ZDF Matlala Holdings, a diversified food-production company.
“I've always enjoyed cooking food, and after school I wanted to go to a culinary school,” recalls Matlala.
However, she opted to put her dreams aside for a “sensible” B. Tech degree in civil engineering, which she obtained from the Tshwane University of Technology. This is also where she met her now husband, Blessing.
After graduating in 2008, the couple obtained positions within Transnet, and seemed set for long careers in engineering. Within a few years, however, frustration had set in. Matlala found that her real passion still lay with food and cooking, and their hectic
