524 days ago
Where Portia leads.

By Justin Nurse via IOL.

Portia De Smidt is co-owner of Africa Café, one of Cape Town’s most successful restaurants, specialising in African cuisine, and celebrating its 20th birthday this month. But there’s much more to her than just that, as Justin Nurse found out when he sat down to a meal of raw food with her…

I was born in Kimberley, and grew up in Swaziland mostly. We moved to get away from the Bantu education system. I went to loads of different boarding schools and grew up speaking English and Afrikaans. Swaziland schools were mixed so I met lots of different people from different cultures – more than the average black South African.

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