A young Zamdela-born entrepreneur is finding his feet in the coffee industry through his own roasted coffee brand named ‘Mcofana’. The Mcofana journey started way back in 2015 by Nyakallo Mokoena with pop-up coffee shops in Zamdela.
After realizing that the pop-up coffee shop idea was not working quite well as he expected, Nyakallo had to rethink his business model and decided to learn and get as much information and knowledge about the industry and restarted again.
In 2016 after equipping himself with enough knowledge and information the business started again, but this time around Nyakallo had decided to produce and roast his own coffee sourcing beans from various countries and mainly from Africa itself.
Now Mcofana is being roasted originally with its own unique blends, and that’s what makes it unique and special according to Nyakallo.
“Our coffee is very much tasteful and unique as well, I prefer to let our product speak for itself. Mcofana is not an ordinary coffee as it is 100% original, and to best enjoy it you need to have a coffee machine or coffee plunger,” he said.
Mcofana is now available and being sold and supplied to many various shops, restaurants and coffee shops, spa’s in Zamdela and Sasolburg as well as in Gauteng. Mcofana is also currently being served at Countess Bar & Eatery Restaurant in Gauteng and has exclusive online store that has access to Southern African Development Countries (SADC),with one of the biggest supermarket store in the country.
Like many young people starting their own businesses in this country, the journey has never being easy for Nyakallo.
“Like many other young people starting their own business we faced many challenges access to funding, marketing and advertising our business, having access to the coffee industry has been some of the challenges we faced” said Nyakallo. Mccofana is this week celebrating its 6th year anniversary.
Looking forward Nyakallo is hoping to have his own factory soon with about 50 young people employed, where they will be producing, packaging and labeling their products unlike now because they are renting premises where they operate. “We are also working on educating our customers about our products and most importantly we want to get more young people involved in this coffee industry and making a living out of it” concluded Nyakallo.
