BUSINESS MINDED AND SELF MOTIVATED SPAZA OWNER DIMAKGATSO MASHIANE

By: Masibonge Somatyala

Twitter: @masibonge02

Email: masibongekheswa@gmail.com

Mr. Dimakgatso Mashiane aka Dee Mashiane is a young self-reliant man,  born and bred in Soshanguve. This responsible and passionate spaza owner was born on 20^th October 1999.

Image from Dee Mashiane

“Unemployment rate in South Africa is doing beyond discouraging the youth. Imagine going to university and obtaining your qualification but still not finding employment and being old to be depending on your parents,” said Mr. Dee as he highlighted that he is the one of those who form part of the statistics of unemployed graduates.

He completed his high school at Wallmansthal High School. After a two year gap he was accepted at the Tshwane North TVET College-Pretoria campus where he studied Business Management.

He decided to start his business of opening a spaza shop using some of the skills he acquired while he was a Business management student. He explained that he did Business management but there was no business for him to manage and that is why he decided to start his own business.

“I was tired of being an unemployed graduate that is why I decided to start my own business. I moved from being an unemployed graduate to being the self-employed graduate and I am proud of that,” he explained.

On the following video Mr. Dee Mashiane explains how he used his spaza shop to earn more profit.

He further added that during his spare time he streams different videos and podcasts of how other people turned their own spaza shops into big super markets and super stores so he can

learn from them. 

“I can see that his business is gradually growing and moving forward one step at a time because I used to fill his stock in the boot of my small car but now it takes my small car and my bakkie to deliver his stock,” said Sipho Sibiya who usually is hired to deliver his stock.

You can click on the following link to listen to Sipho Sibiya`s compliments.

https://soundcloud.com/masibonge-sinebali/sipho-sibiya-m4a?si=9c853074e5b845759868b0a8496c38f8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

One of his loyal customers Khensani Aphane noted that Mr. Dee is a good person and business man because if you do not have enough money he gives you what you want and tells you that you will pay him later and she wishes him all the best.