{"id":989999,"date":"2026-10-01T06:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/?page_id=989999"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:37:53","slug":"gelanga26-1-bulelani_njobe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/gelanga26-1-bulelani_njobe","title":{"rendered":"GELANGA26-1-Bulelani_Njobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lbs-gelanga26-welcome\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tWelcome\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lbs-gelanga26-about-langa\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tAbout Langa\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lbs-gelanga26-meet-up\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tYour Clients\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/lbs-gelanga26-useful-resources\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\tUseful Resources\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h2>\n\t\t\t1. Bulelani Njobe &#038; Oracle Green\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LBS26 1 Bulelani Njobe\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1dxo6x41KS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\n\t<p>Bulelani, whose name means &#8220;Gratitude&#8221; is a young entrepreneur from Langa who founded Oracle Green, an eco-friendly cleaning company. The company comes to clients&#8217; homes and premises and offers three services: upholstery deep cleaning (carpets, couches, mattresses, car seats&#8230;), high-pressure cleaning (roofs, carports, pavings&#8230;) and painting.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving a call-centre job where he felt he couldn&#8217;t grow, Bulelani started out washing rubbish bins. &#8220;People thought I was crazy&#8221;, he laughs. But the first six houses on his street grew to 72 households, each paying R100 a month subscription. He then asked those clients what else they wanted cleaned, and he added new services based on their answers.<\/p>\n<p>He trained at the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship in Cape Town, and took part in programmes with the Black Umbrellas Foundation. Prize money from a competition paid for his first equipment. He then finished in the top five of more than 300 entrepreneurs in a Absa\/Visa competition, and won R100,000, which he used to buy a bakkie (the South African term for a utility vehicle). He is currently in a 10-month entrepreneurship programme run by the Silulo foundation and Astron Energy, which ends with a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Bulelani&#8217;s key challenges include financial management and record keeping, customer relationship management, expanding his market to reach wealthier suburbs beyond his current low- and middle-income clients, compliance (e.g. SARS registration) and marketing, including updating his website, flyers and social media.<\/p>\n<p>His dream is to grow Oracle Green and end up employing at least 10 to 15 local people, up from the current 4 people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"  itemprop=\"url\" title=\"LogoReciprocity\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity.png\" alt=\"LogoReciprocity\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"65\" width=\"109\" data-link-type=\"url\" title=\"LogoReciprocity\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity.png 109w, https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoReciprocity-18x12.png 18w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.london.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"  itemprop=\"url\" title=\"LogoLBS\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoLBS.jpg\" alt=\"LogoLBS\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" data-link-type=\"url\" title=\"LogoLBS\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoLBS.jpg 72w, https:\/\/reciprocity.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/LogoLBS-12x12.jpg 12w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n<\/div><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome About Langa Your Clients Useful Resources 1. 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