her business. “We have reached the market cap for the units that can be produced locally. I sell what I have, and there is a waiting list unbelievably long for those who didn’t manage to secure a set on a restock day. I am very grateful for the desire for the product,” Frankel says.
Within six months of starting Top Drawer, Frankel started receiving orders from South African celebrities such as actor-producer Connie Ferguson and influencer Kefilwe Mabote. Corporates like Unilever were also ordering sleepwear from her. Even when Covid-19 hit, she still managed
A near-death experience is the reason Top Drawer Collection exists, and with every negative health experience I face, a new, even better product is born to meet the need that I would only know how to fulfill by walking through the thorns and making it to the other side.
(*Information obtained from Forbes Africa Editions April 2021 & July 2022)
LINFORD MOLAODI UJ ICT IN EDUCATION LECTURER
Linford Molaodi is a Lecturer in ICT-enhanced learning at UJ’s Faculty of Education. He is doing his PhD, focused on creative coding and robotics for pre-s ervice and in-service teachers. He explains: I lecture modules that focus on teaching and learning using ICT; and science and technology, in the Faculty of Education, Department of Childhood Education. I am also a project manager for the Creative Coding @UJ Faculty of Education , which is the most exciting innovative project I am involved in currently. I do not even feel like it
is a job. It has become part of my DNA. It gives me so much joy. At the same time, Linford works with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Lifelong Kindergarten group as a contributor to cultivating creativity using the Scratch coding app, and the upcoming OctoPlay, a mobile-friendly coding app, which is also translated into three South African languages: Sepedi, IsiZulu and IsiXhosa. He has been a facilitator in MIT’s Learning Creative Learning course, and a guest lecturer in some of their Master’s classes since 2019.
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