Impact Stories
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Gqeberha barista academy wins top award
Gqeberha’s Red Band Barista Academy recently received one of the highest accolades of success in the national coffee industry.
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Milk hearts and a bubbly barista: Gqeberha’s coffee dynamo relishes the sweet aroma of success
Barista Babsie Mtya went from being an unemployed graduate to owning her own coffee shop, fulfilling a dream and putting a kick in Gqeberha’s coffee scene.
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How Do you Tackle Youth Unemployment? A Barista Academy
Taking the Red Band Barista Academy from a dream to a feasible business plan wasn’t easy. There were so many questions we had to answer: How long should the course be? How in-depth should we go?