Ntsiki Biyela left domestic work to study viticulture, becoming South Africa’s first black female winemaker with global acclaim.
The day she turned her back forever on life as a domestic worker, 20-year-old Ntsiki Biyela boarded a bus in Durban and left KwaZulu-Natal for the Western Cape.
“I do them because I have to,” she admits. “I’d much rather be out among the vines or in the cellar.” Her grandmother was horrified, saying she would not allow Biyela to follow the road her own daughter had taken. The young woman assured her the move was merely “a stepping stone”. “I think when people are exposed to things they don’t know or understand,” she muses, “they develop feelings of suspicion and insecurity. Understanding and the realisation that we were all heading out into the same world made us family.”
Biyela’s first full-time employment was at Dave Lello’s Stellekaya, where she worked her way up the ranks for the next 13 years.
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