Junior Molewa is a dynamic 43 year old South African woman who is passionate about cooking. A wife and mother of one – she also found the time to accommodate her studies towards a Secretarial Diploma and qualified with secretarial skills. It was a further opportunity to study for a Housekeeping, Hospitality and Culinary Skills Certificate, that really helped her hone a natural love for the culinary world.

Junior has worked as a Demi Chef at the Cobblestone Restaurant located at Monte Casino from 2001 to 2003. This vibey Restaurant has a simple but heart warming menu, featuring some of Junior’s personal favorites like the Oxtail braised in red wine and herbs. Juniour then joined the Restaurant & Banqueting Services at Monte Casino from 2003 to 2004, as a Demi Chef – specializing in buffet style dishes. Junior’s move to Kliptown, Soweto began at the Classique Grillhouse where she worked as the Kitchen Manager. She then joined the Soweto Hotel on Freedom Square in 2007 as a Chef de Partie. Junior is part of the team that has developed the Township Style Menu that features old time favorites of the world’s icon, former president Nelson Mandela, such as Farida Omar’s chicken curry or the bread and butter pudding with hot custard, just like how Gogo used to make it!

Junior brings a unique touch to the kitchen equip of that heavy dose of homely cooking that our mothers and gogos treated us to growing up, of tasty comfort food cooked with a lot of tender loving care!