SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER DOWN-AND-OUT GOLDEN NONGAUZA BUILDS NEW CAREER AS A TIN FLOWER ARTIST

Record ID: 230821

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER DOWN-AND-OUT GOLDEN NONGAUZA BUILDS NEW CAREER AS A TIN FLOWER ARTIST
  • Date: 30th May 2000
  • Summary: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA (MAY 30, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: TIN ARTIST, GOLDEN NONGAUZA, TALKING TO CUSTOMERS 0.11 2. CLOSE UP OF TIN SUNFLOWER 0.17 3. VARIOUS OF TIN FLOWERS BEING DISPLAYED ON WORKSHOP WALL (2 SHOTS) 0.38 4. SV/CU: GOLDEN TALKING TO CUSTOMER ABOUT FLOWERS (2 SHOTS) 0.58 5. SCU: PORTRAIT OF ARTIST 1.04 6. VARIOUS OF ARTIST AT WORK, CUTTING OUT FLOWER SHAPES FROM TIN (4 SHOTS) 1.42 7. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) TIN FLOWER ARTIST, GOLDEN NONGAUZA: "My life is changed now. Why? Today, I make some flowers, I sell some flowers and tourists come here and buy my flowers. Today, I got a lot of supporters. They support me." 2.15 8. VARIOUS OF TIN ROSES 2.24 9. VARIOUS OF ARTIST AND HIS FAMILY WATCHING TELEVISION (2 SHOTS) 2.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: LVA5DIJUMELW2QYPG077JXJA7KV2
  • Story Text: Where there's muck, there's money -- just ask Golden Nongauza,
    a former homeless Cape Town man who has found a way
    to make money.

    Six months ago, he was a down-and-out homeless
    husband and father, without a cent to his name.

    Today, he's a budding entrepreneur, ekeing out a living
    from collecting soda cans and tins from rubbish dumps.

    Instead of selling the cans, as one would expect from a
    can collector, 41-year-old Golden Nongauza takes the cans home
    and cuts them out into various shapes and sizes - flower
    shapes - everything from daisies to roses to sunflowers - and
    sells them as bouquets, or individual stems, depending, of
    course, on the customers' needs.

    The result is an overhwelming demand from customers, who
    are keeping Nongauza very busy, and very happy, these days.

    "My life is changed now.Why? Today, I make some
    flowers, I sell some flowers and tourists come here and buy my
    flowers.Today, I got a lot of supporters.They support me,"
    said Nongauza.

    Nongauza's family also support him.They are all involved
    in everything from helping collect the cans, to washing and
    cleaning them, to helping sell them.They've seen their lives
    literally changing before their very eyes in the last few
    months and have their breadwinner to thank for their windfall.
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