When Wanda du Toit first heard about Kamers Vol Geskenke in 2003, she was annoyed. ‘At the time, I had a bricks-and-mortar shop and I thought, “How bloody irritating–taking my customers.”’ She laughs. By year three, Wanda had sold her shop, and Amelia van Zyl, the original founder of Kamers, asked her to come on board to do merchandising. She jumped at the opportunity.
Magdel Kemp joined the team around the same time. She’d lived next door to Amelia as a student, and one day they ran into each other and started chatting. ‘She told me about Kamers, and she said, “We’ve been going for two years now, and every year everyone thinks they’re going to quit. You know, we make money, but we don’t know where the money goes, and in the end we don’t know whom to pay.” As someone who loved sorting out the admin side of things, Magdel thought this sounded like the ultimate fixer-upper project. ‘I’m very, very
