Madumo finally starts catering school in Wattville

The Ekurhuleni Grant-in-Aid recipient will launch her cooking school at the OR Tambo Precinct in Wattville. After almost 10 years of operating a catering business and giving random one-day training sessions to impart knowledge to fledgeling cooks.

With the municipality’s financial backing, Madumo’s business will reach greater heights and her passion to train others will be sustainably realised.

Madumo will now be equipped to train aspiring chefs on food handling at her newly launched Carol Madumo Project (CMP) Catering School.

“I have been running training workshops but always had a dream to open my own cooking school and thanks to the funding from Ekurhuleni, I now have the financial muscle to plough back to the community with the hope that they too will impart the knowledge they get to other aspiring chefs,” Madumo said.

CMP Catering School will be operating from the OR Tambo Precinct and will start with training eight hospitality entrepreneurs, who are already in the food business, to sharpen the skills they already possess.

Madumo used to recruit young cooks with potential from her community and link them with the South African Chiefs Association.

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One of her recruits was ultimately trained in Seychelles and will also be assisting at the cooking school.

The three-month training programme will include health hygiene, safety and security, table preparation, serving customers and the development of a business model.

After the training programme, the apprentices will not walk away with just an accredited catering certificate but will leave as all-rounder culinary practitioners who have been trained in multiple areas of hospitality.

In addition, the CMP Cooking School graduates will receive chefs uniforms as well as user-friendly mobile food carts that go with a gas cylinder, cooler box, pizza oven, water bucket, food warmer and fire extinguisher compartment.

Madumo further stated that she realised she could not achieve a feat of this magnitude without the assistance of a big institution such as Ekurhuleni.

“Not only did I want to open a hospitality school, but I also wanted to advance other local entrepreneurs by giving them a skill they can use for a lifetime,” she said.

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