BeautifulNews: After seeing people living on the street, seven-year-old Omphile Mabitsela is on a mission to end poverty and create jobs with his stationery empire. BeautifulNewsSA
Can paper animals solve unemployment? Omphile Mabitsela believes so. After seeing people living on the street, the seven-year-old resolved to start his own business, create jobs, and combat poverty. Not when he’s older. Now.
Mabitsela is set on his goal, and is already building a stationery empire from the ground up. “I want to inspire the nation,” he says. The budding mogul trades in handmade bookmarks, which he calls quirk quirks. “The way we make it is with creative stuff,” he says with aplomb. Using an array of craft materials, Mabitsela fashions the bookmarks from origami animals ranging from birds to pigs, as well as emojis and television characters. He sells them for R10 each, along with other stationery through his company Quirk Quirk Inc.
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