Fortnight Thursdays at Pitseng

Mmusa Lenyehelo, Kevin Mabaso and Oupa Mohlaphudi are a team of three guys who own a company called “Just a Thought”, they came up with an idea of promoting businesses and artists around Bloemfontein, on Thursdays fortnightly, at Pitseng Restaurant. They chose Pitseng Restaurant because they saw that there wasn't as much traffic as the place looked like it could offer. They came up with a promotional strategy or the restaurant by bringing in a crowd that will spend money on them and there’s free entrance.

When I managed to have a little chat with Mmusa about what they are doing, this is what he said: “we’re promoting artists and giving it that African feel. We are doing this here because every time when we passed by here there weren’t many customers, there was nothing to compliment the place. We have these artists that need exposure and we have businesses that need to be exposed, so we basically promote these people, we are doing this for free and we’re doing it for Pitseng for them to get sales, we are giving them an image and customers. We want to sustain the place because this is all that we have that represents us “Africans” in the whole of this street [2nd Avenue]. This Thursday we were focusing on artists but on our second Thursday of this month it will be about what people are selling, what you provide as a business. We are also aiming at creating a network space where people link up and start working together, building each other as black people.”