We contacted Juma through his website and arranged to combine a township tour with the nightlife tour. We also asked him to arrange transportation from our Airbnb, which he did at a very reasonable rate.
Juma is a serial entrepreneur. In addition to his tour company, he has two bicycle shops, a sandwich shop and several other small businesses in Khayelitsha. He starts the business, gets it going, hires local people to run it, and does it again. He empowers the people to take risks and try things out. He is developing entrepreneurs. But his most visible enterprise is street art and gardens.
Nomonte, our guide, is a young woman, born in Khayelitsha, dynamic and enthusiastic about the future. Juma and his crew have been painting the corrugated metal houses to decorate, reflect the culture, train the artists and protect the houses from rust. We were on the ground here, and stopped in people's houses to see how they live. It was an eye opening experience, one that every visitor to Cape Town should see. And Juma's tours are the best way to do this.
