Born and raised in Johannesburg, Amanda Jojo is hard at working turning her lifelong love for coffee into a viable enterprise.
She founded The Trea Garden, an upscale cafe providing high quality coffee and accompaniments in a relaxing atmosphere. Amanda started the cafe with a view to combine her passion for food and beverage with entrepreneurship to help contribute to creating employment opportunities in South Africa— a country grappling with unsustainable levels of youth unemployment.
Amanda sees her business as an avenue to help youth and women make an honest and fair wage while learning transferable skills. In addition, Amanda uses her business to support young creatives–regularly inviting young musicians and artists to perform and sell their art in the space. At just 21, Amanda was recently named the best student entrepreneur at the Global Entrepreneurship student awards in Cape Town,and was selected to represent South Africa in Germany at the same forum.
Amanda has set her sights on opening a second branch of the Trea Garden very soon, and aims to employ at least a dozen more employees.
Media & Milestones
2019
The Trea Garden is a little antique garden cafe located in Midrand and it’s definitely worth a visit. Go for their delicious coffee and tea variaties but the carrot cake, gourmet ice-cream, chocolate milkshake, the beautiful scenery, the peaceful tranquility of the surroundings and the general charm of the place will keep you coming back for more.
2018
Meet Amanda Jojo, who at just 21, will be launching The Trea Garden, a coffee shop which indulges her love of good quality coffee.
Entrepreneurship is central to Africa’s economic growth and is one of the keys to unlocking job opportunities for young people across the continent. Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) is pleased to announce that 20 of Africa’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs will join the Anzisha Fellowship
After a gruelling four-hour judging process, University of Pretoria soil science student Palesa Motaung emerged as the South African champion in the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA).
2017
The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a global initiative of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) is aiming to support young local entrepreneurs.
A partnership between
