This article was previously published in the DRUM print edition
There's an old saying about making lemonade when life gives you lemons –but when those lemons are a car crash that leaves you confined to a wheelchair it’s hard to put a positive spin on the experience. Well, it would be for most people – but most people aren’t Edwina Makgamatha. On one wall of her spacious, smartly furnished Kempton Park office is a plaque that gives insight into her mind: “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one,” it says. If ever there was a woman determined to move ahead it’s this 33-year-old entrepreneur.
Edwina endured a humiliating battle to get the medical supplies she needs to manage living with her disability – but instead of sinking into anger and despair she turned her struggle into a thriving business. Edwina took her life savings and started an enterprise that delivers medical supplies, such as catheters, gauze swabs, surgical tapes, bandages and antiseptic cream, to the doorsteps of disabled people.
