Well-known butchery closes shop after 61 years
The family-run business has had the same premises since 1954
COLEMAN’S Butchery has closed down its shop on Commissioner Street, a spot they’ve sold their quality meat to customers from for 61 years.
The family-run business has had the same premises since 1954.
The owner of the butchery, Corrie Coleman, took over the business from his father in 1959.
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Maggel Coleman, Corrie’s wife of 50 years, said she remembered how her mother used to send her to the butchery to buy meat when she was a teenager.
“I would ride my bike to the butchery to buy meat. Corrie was already working there with his father. Every time I went there he would say to me: ‘One day I’m going to marry you’, and I remember going back to my mother and telling her I never want to go back to that butchery again,” Maggel said.
A few years after she had completed her matric, the couple got married. They will be celebrating their 50th anniversary next year.
Evans Manyama, who has been working at the butchery for 21 years, says he has enjoyed working with Coleman over the years, who he says has become like a father figure to him.
