I am meeting Maps Maponyane, the head prefect of SA’s celebrity cohort, at one of his multiple ventures: Buns Out, a witty burger joint in Rosebank.
By witty I mean the menu follows in the same vein as the name of the place and you get to laugh inside as you eat organically sourced beef from amazingly well-looked-after cows they can probably name.
We have a few awkward moments scrambling to retrieve them and once we settle down and recover from all the bonhomie I ask him how business is faring given that he started this branch of the burger chain during lockdown? “And of course everything does not really run smoothly. Learning how to communicate is key. Things obviously won’t go to plan, so much is out of your control, every small thing can affect your business in a big way.”“I am always optimistic about where we can possibly go, unfortunately I wish I could be more optimistic about where we are at.
I look at the pictures on his phone and I am shocked into a very real sense of the employment crisis we face. “The reason I went into this business was to create employment — that more than anything else made it more real, how bad the situation really is,” says Maps.
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