Phalaborwa woman turns mopani worms into a growing food business

Phalaborwa woman turns mopani worms into a growing food business

By Everson Luhanga Wendy Vesela Ntimbani founded Matomani, a Phalaborwa company that makes food products from mopani worms, including a mopani worm chocolate. Matomani employs 24 people, operates from Phalaborwa and Johannesburg, and works with rural communities that harvest the worms each summer. Many families in Limpopo survive by harvesting mopani worms each summer. A woman from Phalaborwa is now turning that tradition into a food business …