Cape Town – South African actress and star on the TV show Uzalo, Noxolo Mathula, says she is not embarrassed by her side hustle of selling hot dogs and other street foods in the street and at taxi ranks.
The 29-year-old is also a model and a musician, adding to her impressive resume.
“I am never ever ashamed. My mother taught me that you do not ever feel embarrassed by doing honest work. If it gives you money and brings you happiness, then there’s nothing to be ashamed of. It is my side hustle, I own it, and no one can tell me anything. It is a brand I am very proud of. I can never be ashamed of it,” IOL quoted Mathula as saying.
“People do not usually get to see celebrities doing the groundwork. For them it is also an inspirational thing that ‘haybo Lilly, uyi-celebrity and you are out here in the street selling hotdogs’. And I say we all have to hustle because depending on one salary does not work.” she reportedly added.
Her business, ‘Hotdogs by Noxolo’, is growing, according to the actress.
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“We are growing, my baby @hotdogsbynoxolo is now catering for big productions. Huge shoutout to my whole team that are always there to make sure that we serve quality meals. Makwande, Kukhanye,” she wrote on Instagram.
Noxolo said that her inspiration came from a trip she took to New York where street food is popular.
According to Drum, she said that the business initially started during the pandemic when artists were hit hard financially.
“We literally did not have bread at home and we could not work. I had been making the hotdogs for a while and anyone who had ever had them had asked why I don’t sell them. So, backed up into a corner, I decided to just try.
“On the first day I made R700 and I thought ‘mmh, we can do this again’. So now we had the essentials of bread and milk and I restocked to make the hotdogs again and I have never stopped,” she was quoted as saying.
“It has grown so much because of the people in the street. I understand my market. My market are the people that are in the street. I’d never be ashamed of where I get my money. Ngama never lawo,” she reportedly added.
She said that her presence on television helped her to push the brand.
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Compiled by Junaid Benjamin
