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Motshabi Mabena is the founder of Nirmala Juice
Tell me about Nirmala Juice. Nirmala is a Sanskrit word meaning pure. It shows our intention to provide 100% pure, cold-pressed juice that tastes delicious, making it less painful to enjoy healthy fruit and vegetable juice. Our customers say that Nirmala makes the best-tasting vegetable juices on the market. And we agree, because in our product development we spend a lot of time finding those two or three killer ingredients that will give each one of our juices its own unique and delicious flavour. What role do you play at Nirmala Juice, and what do you do each day at work? I am the founder, recipe developer and, for most of its history, the juicer extraordinaire. I still personally source the fruits and vegetables at the Tshwane fresh produce market, and respond to queries and online/e-mail and telephone orders. I still oversee the juice production. I also keep an eye on our juice bar kiosk in Menlyn Maine Central Square, in Pretoria, and I'm pretty hands-on there. I love to have a...
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