Owl City
A company Siya founded and runs as sole director, on his own land at Herschel in the Eastern Cape. The plan: make at home what the province now buys from Johannesburg.
Herschel
“When I started any business, I love the process more than the results.”
Siya Ngcangca, founder, on MZAKES, September 2022
Industrialising Herschel.
Everything in one place, on 22 to 24 hectares beside the regional road: businesses at the front, livestock at the back, fields for maize and potatoes. Owned land means no rent, so Owl City can sell for less.
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Owl toilet paper
Made on site, with an owl on every sheet.
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Day-old chicks
Hatched on site and sold in boxes of a hundred.
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Livestock
Bonsmara cattle, Merino sheep and goats.
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Fresh produce
Vegetables, maize and potatoes from the land.
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Detergents
Dishwashing liquid, washing powder and pine gel.
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Lounge, market and workshop
The Owl City lifestyle lounge, a farmers’ market and a tyre workshop, so Herschel stops driving 35 km for basics.