Nomvula Dlamini

Nom writes about small business and the township economy from the inside: how money really moves, on trust and on month-end, and what it takes to grow one box of stock into a living. She has traded in some form since she was young, and she trusts effort over excuses. Her pieces ask a simple question of any bright idea: will it work for the auntie paying cash for airtime, not just the person with a bank app. If it does not work for her, she says, it does not work.