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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>FOR more than a year now, the people of Lesotho have enjoyed an appetising tea in the form of Mafube. \u201cAt Mafube (dawn, the reddish horizon in the east just before sunrise), when sunrays are about to rise, the people of Lesotho get into the habit of making tea,\u201d said a soft-spoken \u2019Matsomoli Mokhele who is incubating her business at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) Innovation Hub.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to bring an exception to that habit with a tasty healthy local tea,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

We are approaching two years now since Mafube hit the markets. The reception has been great. \u201cSome people,\u201d Mokhele said, \u201cjust like the unique taste of it all.<\/p>\n

Others know a thing or two about its amazing health benefits. \u201d This tea is a mixture of wild mint and wild olive tree leaves found in Lesotho. You can\u2019t get a better combination.<\/p>\n

Today, we trace an interesting journey of a rather shy but hard-working young woman from Mafeteng. \u201cMy flirting with entrepreneurship started when I was in high school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, I was part of a committee for the school\u2019s Science Society.
\nShe said although the school was willing to fund the Science Society\u2019s frequent participation in science fairs, they, as the society, were also expected to put something on the table.<\/p>\n

That is why they devised a plan, \u201ceach member of the society would sell anything that would bring us revenue\u201d. As a leader who led by example, she too was also thrown into the selling activities.<\/p>\n

Those were memorable days because \u201cwe would actually raise enough money to fund up to 10 participants in the fair. \u201d She doesn\u2019t know if such experiences contributed to her love for entrepreneurship or not, but this is where she is now.<\/p>\n

Fate would soon confine her within the fences of the NUL. Although she wanted to study nursing and to later get into dentistry, she later found herself doing a BSc in Nutrition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew to love it,\u201d she said, \u201cespecially when we started to be introduced to courses dealing with food science and food product development. In fact I later turned down an offer to do dentistry at the University of Pretoria. \u201d<\/p>\n

She still recalls getting into a project where she developed an extremely tasty soup from beans, sunflower and a variety of vegetables and flavours. \u201cIn my final year, I would later be involved in a project that was meant to address poor nutrition in babies undergoing weaning.<\/p>\n

\u201d That project would create a highly nutritious product best known as khuisa, which means weaning in English.<\/p>\n

The product is under development at the NUL Innovation Hub. \u201cI was invited to the Innovation Hub due to my involvement with that project as a student.<\/p>\n

\u201d However, when she entered the hub, a whole new world opened up. Not only did she get told that she was free to experiment with anything as long as it wouldn\u2019t kill us, she observed her peers doing just that.<\/p>\n

She immediately got the spirit, \u201ceven as we were pushing Khuisa, we were also pushing other products and Mafube became one of them. \u201d A trained nutritionist, she says Mafube is more than just a sensory delight.<\/p>\n

While many come to it for taste, taste and nothing else, some consult it for health reasons. These may include chasing away flu and colds. In fact, experts believe that mint may soothe an upset stomach, improve digestion, treat bad breath, combat the common cold and flu, reduce fever, improve mental awareness and focus and\u2026 the list goes on.<\/p>\n

The other half of the mix is wild olive, which scientists tell us its \u201creal\u201d name is Olea europaea L. subsp. Africana. Okay, okay, what matters is that its leaves have been used widely across Africa and other continents for, among others, lowering blood pressure, improving kidney function and dealing with sore throats.<\/p>\n

Recently, scientists have demonstrated that the leaves of the tree have a compound called Oleuropein. This mysterious substance has been proven to fight microbes and oxidation in cells which can cause cell damage, making you sick.<\/p>\n

It is interesting that Mokhele doesn\u2019t import the raw materials for the tea. \u201cI found it amazing that there are so many people who have grown these trees and herbs and they supply us with raw materials year-round, right here in Lesotho.<\/p>\n

\u201d She is also impressed by the NUL Innovation Hub\u2019s introduction of the Tholoana Orchard Society.<\/p>\n

The society seeks to introduce the cultivation of fruits and herbs on a large scale around the country. \u201cWe need self-sufficiency in these areas as soon as possible,\u201d she thinks.<\/p>\n

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