Young Black South African Agents Inspire Their Peers to Travel
Photo Credit: Philile Nzimande co-founded Traveling Cheapskates in 2011 with business partner Pearl Nkosi. Traveling Cheapskates
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Personal experience counts when it comes to encouraging young black South Africans to pack their suitcases and discover their own country, say the co-founders of Johannesburg-based Traveling Cheapskates. The co-founders build trips that they'd like to take, too, and feel like they intimately understand their customers.
Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu. This old saying in Zulu, which translates as “we are because of each other,” neatly underpins the philosophy of two Johannesburg-based travel curators dedicated to encouraging other young black South Africans to explore their own country.
“It’s our philosophy,” said Philile Nzimande, who co-founded Traveling Cheapskates in 2011 with business partner Pearl Nkosi. The pair met in college where Nzimande majored in information management and communications, while Nkosi studied hospitality management and served an internship in Florida at Disneyworld.
“When we travel, we learn from each other,” Nzimande said. “When you engage in a diverse country you learn from the different regions you visit, and discover that everybody has something to contribute.”
The idea for Traveling Cheapskates was prompted by a desire to in
