Bee Hobby Pollinates Honey Brand
Simthembile Nzuzo of Simthesh Honey holding honey bottles produced by his business.
MTHATHA born Simthembile Nzuzo’s bee hobby has pollinated into a thriving beekeeping and honey making business attracting some of the leading local retailers and resort to bulk buy his newly established brand.
Nzuzo said at first he was attracted to the buzzing bees at his farm home and had no idea it could lead into the honey making business one day.
“I started this as a hobby when we had bees under the floor of our farm house. That’s when we developed the beekeeping skills. Our honey is sold at Spar (old S n P), FoodLovers at BT Ngebs Mall, bought by Dan’s Country Lodge and sold through direct sales to individuals,” said Nzuzo.
“DRDAR is helping us with technical advice and services and they connect us with buyers and that is a mark up for us,” said Nzuzo.
His business owns 250 bee hives from which they produce 3 tons of 100% natural organic processed honey per year bottled into branded bottles and sold to the shops while some units are sold to individual buyers at R50 per 500 grams.
Nzuzo also recieved funding from the ECDC, which bought him bee hive boxes, trailor to transport honey stock, prefab building for processibng, honey extractor machine.
Connect with Nzuzo: 078 7060 139/ 083 773 8805.