Cecil Nurse Business Furniture | 14 Uitenhage Rd, North End, Port Elizabeth (Port Elizabeth) 6001, Eastern Cape

The excitement of running his own business was soon forgotten when in the following few years he experienced many difficult and financially stressful times. His boundless enthusiasm, good business sense, coupled with a superb selling and trading ability, together with the backing of an understanding wife, never allowed him to contemplate giving up in favour of working for a boss.Instead, to augment the income of the furniture business, Cecil constructed a series of hothouses in the backyard of his home and began growing a variety of indoor plants, with a view to selling them from door to door to businesses in central Johannesburg. He employed two assistants with specially modified platform bicycles to sell the home-grown plants, little realising that his was the very first indoor office.