Kwa Ga Ncinci mulls over franchising to expand business

Passing Fairgrounds mall by the corner of Motor Centre garage in Gaborone, driving down south towards Gaborone Dam, on the immediate left is a gravel road that goes past Sanitas garden on the way to Bojanala Waterfront.

Inside the farm-like site Bojanala Waterfront, is a simple African restaurant commonly known as ‘Kwa Ga Ncinci’. Inside this place is also a farmhouse, a few cattle grazing on the other side and looking afar, the long Gaborone Dam wall.

Kwa Ga Ncinci concept started in 2014, as a cry for help. Ncinci Moitsadi, the youthful owner tells Business Trends that she was broke and had just lost her marketing and branding company which she had worked for five years.

She had always harboured a passion for cooking, but owning a restaurant was never in her mind, until the time she lost her branding and marketing company. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

She had to hustle something which could bring food to the table. Ncinci started cooking her scrumptious meals at the back of her house with only two pots. She received help from some of her friends to soldier on with the concept.

She then moved from home to open a restaurant at Bojanala Waterfront. In 2015, Zeus the local rapper, approached Ncinci and introduced her to “jam for brunch’ initiative and asked her to be a catering partner.

Jam for brunch is a Sunday chill session, over good food and good music, where friends bring camp chairs and relax on a lawn feeling the fresh breeze and birds singing.  

“The place is great and is more than just a restaurant. We will host weddings, parties and chill sessions. We try to offer something different. The place can open your mind to a lot of things,” she says. From a one man’s kitchen to 11 employees, Ncinci says it is an amazing experience for her.

All Ncinci’s furnishing is locally produced, from the benches, stools, tables, cushions, decors, branding; this she says is her effort of giving every Motswana an opportunity to do business with her.

The lady glows with a smile, confident that her dream has been achieved. “I need to franchise this business and make sure that young Batswana own it.”