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The saying ‘It takes the whole village to raise a child’ is accurate, but so is ‘Sometimes it takes one mother to raise the whole village.’ Jacob Mnisi’s mother worked as a domestic worker but she also took in underprivileged children from her community and housed them.
It was a hard pill for little Jacob to swallow cos the circumstances forced him to share the little bread he had.
“I was too young to understand. Sometimes I had to sleep on the floor just so I could make space for other kids,” recalls the fifty-year-old from Mpumalanga, who’s now a prominent multi-millionaire business mogul.
“I had to drop out of school in Standard 5 (now Grade 7) and go find work so we could keep the body and soul together,” he says as he revisits his past, and asks for a second to park next to the road as he’s driving for this telephonic interview.
Bra J, as he’s known, remembers well his first business in the mid-90s.
“I started off as just a guy who manufactured windows and putting glass