angles, solving the puzzle, seeing
what goes where, who needs what,
whom we can connect with who can
then get us the money.
At the peak of our operation we
probably had around 10,000 rand in
capital. We had loans going out and
interest coming in. We had our
stockpile of Jordans and DVD
players we’d bought to resell. We
also had to buy blank CDs, hire
minibuses to go to our DJ gigs, feed
five guys three times a day. We kept
track of everything on the
computer. Having lived in my
mom’s world, I knew how to do
spreadsheets. We had a Microsoft