Sisanda, Marike, and a shed full of crates
We are Sisanda Nkosi and Marike du Toit, and between us we pack every crate that leaves here. The workshop is an old fruit shed on Hoofstraat in Riebeek-Kasteel, with trestles down the middle so we can lay a full three-metre run out and look at it properly before it goes anywhere near a bakkie. We sell the small things outright — linen, candles, napkins, vases — and we hire out the heavy ones, the iron stands and the glassware, because nobody needs to own two hundred coupes. We are not planners. We do not do flowers and we will not book your band, and we say so in the first minute on the phone. What we do is arrive the morning before, set the tables, and come back on the Sunday for the crates.
