South Africa: Perhaps It's Time You Cleaned Your Tackies?

Because two brothers hated getting their sneakers dirty and could not bear wearing dirty shoes, they came up with the unique idea of opening a tackie laundry.

Based in Spruitview on Johannesburg's East Rand, Sakhile Mbatha, 23, and his older brother Manqoba Mthembu, 28, have become entrepreneurs by providing a shoe-washing service, which Mbatha says is "much needed".

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