Mbawula Chat with Jabu Stone founder of Jabu Stones Hair Care

Описание: Jabu Stone the Founder of legendary and Iconic Hair Care Brand.
Over two decades ago, Jabu Stone Natural Hair founder Jabu Stone decided to turn his back on the growing trend of Western style fashions and culture norms to which African people were losing their identities. He was concerned with the extent to which African people, both male and female, denied the beauty of their own natural hair texture by flattening it with damaging relaxers, perms and similar produces.

As a young man who’d just completed studies in engineering and business, Jabu was looking for a way to leave his mark on the world. While visiting his sister’s salon, he noticed many of the woman burning their scalps and skin in order to achieve a westernized look. This hurt Jabu and he vowed to himself that his people should not have to suffer in order to look good.

He decided to look into natural African hair styles. His research into dreadlocks revealed that the style was not a Rastafarian by-product. Rather it was a style as old as the people of Africa. He realized that African hair wanted to lock naturally, but westernized society had created a community that could no longer accept this style.

Jabu believed that if he could find a more attractive way of creating the style, he could get people to embrace it. Jabu developed his product and tried to sell it to salons, but they weren’t interested in a style that did not exist and that took time and talent to achieve.

Undeterred, he approached Gery Rantseli-Elsdon (a television presenter, host, MC and businesswoman), Zenani Mandela (Nelson Mandela’s daughter), Lawrence Dube (Talkshow host), Sipho ‘Hot Stix’ Mabusa (one of the country’s best-loved and most respected musicians) and Yvonne Chaka Chaka (South African Singer Superstar). He asked them if they would allow him to style their hair in locks. They were eager, and being celebrities, the talk of this ‘new style’ started to spread.

Full bio: www.jabu-stone.com
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About this event

#JoinUsForTEA at our Kasi Business Workshops for the Katlehong Chapter the session seeks to bring together local entrepreneurs and create a platform for them to learn, showcase their businesses and network. The business workshops aims to equip township start ups and small business owners with soft and practical skills. The main take away is for you to walk aways inspired, access practical learning, connect with locat entrepreneurs.
Our headline sponsor is Nedbank and our partners are Naspers Labs, Seriti Resources, Proudly SA, City of Ekurhuleni & Brand South Africa.

TEA BIO:

TEA is a national Township based organisation which creates platforms for learning, information sharing, brand engagement and networking. We connect government, corporate SA and entrepreneurs together. We have a national footprint with 6years in operation and a direct impact of 50 000 entrepreneurs.

The workshops are hosted in the township at locally owned venues as part of our vision to impact local markets with a platform that will create multiple market access support solutions. These workshops will be hosted in 14 townships across all 9 provinces.
Come ready to learn and bring along other entrepreneurs. We will have the following activities on the day:

Learning facilitation (Soft Skills)
Pitching Challenge
Mbawula Chats
Networking
Small business exhibition

NOTE: Strict COVID regulations will be adhered to, therefore limited space is available.