Sooveir Rajkumar, 35, who owns Boastful Butcher, clinched the top award at a gala function held in Johannesburg on Tuesday night, 20 October 2009.
The former Land Bank employee, who became the first black person to hold a position as an agricultural land valuator, said his true calling for processing food begun while working for a meat processing plant in Lusaka, Zambia.
“I spent months doing research when I returned home in late 2004, and realised that a lot of people were looking for convenience foods that could cook in less than eight minutes,” Rajkumar said.
Brothers Lonwabo and Luvuyo Rani, of Silulo Ulutho Technologies in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, scooped the second prize of R150,000.
Soweto's Reggie Makhetha and his Roots Restaurant & Gallery took the third prize of R100,000 in the Business of the Year category.
The KickStart programme, developed and funded by SAB — is open to previously disadvantaged peopleh aged between 18 and 35 who want to start or grow their own businesses. Since 1995, SAB has invested more than R45-million in grant funding.
Source: The Times
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