Asked about her hopes and aspirations, Andiswa said: “I aim to achieve exposure in a way that benefits me, as well as our School Restaurant - and to mature in my career. The responsibilities I have been given will help me in my endeavour to develop within the culinary industry and, one day, I hope to look back, with pride, at the people I have impacted.” Andiswa is aware of the testing time ahead.
“Challenges in a kitchen become a way of life,” she says, adding that she deals with them by telling herself that challenges come, and they go. “They are a part of life,” is her philosophical approach. Having been a student and an employee at the school, Andiswa is familiar with the ethics here.
As a teenager she waitressed, and was employed as chef de partie at Hartford House, so she is confident she will fill the position effectively.
Born in the Eastern Cape and raised primarily in KwaZulu-Natal, Andiswa has dreams of being a successful businesswoman.
Pictured above Andiswa Mqudlana.