Who are Team Firestation. Really?
Behind the morning welcomes, the office efficiency and sparkling smiles of Team Workshop17 Firestation - we reveal our crew of abundantly talented and creative individuals.
So who are they really?
Tshepo
Host
Receptionist
Face of Fire Station
IT champ
Excellence and incidence investigator and ROCKSTAR!Tshepo lives and breathes everything music and has been playing the trumpet since 11. This aspiring hip hop artist / instrumentalist has studied jazz and classical music and even entertained the members on a number of occasions. His band goes way back to 2006, and it’s were he learnt to play multiple instruments.
While he loves music, his family is his no 1 priority, and he tries to spend as much time with them, not always possible as he’s away from them.
The social animal loves people and performing but is simultaneously a little shy. When he’s not working at The Firestation, he’s writing, his other passion.
Sixo
Cafe manager
Barista
Smilemaker
Athletic eSporter AKA GamerSix is a natural born comedian and loves making people laugh, but it’s being around happy people and places that make his heart sing.
When he’s not roasting up your morning brew or fixing up your lunch order, he loves to read and play video games.
Siphokuhle
Location manager
Social butterfly
Youtuber
African PhilosopherSipho is an African traditionalist at heart, so much so that she started Afrohub, her YouTube channel that documents, discusses, interviews and explores African truths and traditions.
While many young city folk have become disconnected from their African roots, Sipho (also a city slicker) was intent in not losing hers, hence her purpose for starting a platform to keep African heritage alive. With over 1,4K followers, she’s no shrinking violet and has showcased everything from the Xhosa Homecoming ceremonies (the passage of boy to man), to book reviews on Afrocentric reads, discourse around purpose and alignment in African spirituality, musicians who tell their stories through music, and finding self. Her channel is a mix of fun and serious insights, inspiring but mostly authentically Sipho.
Lulama
Event and community co-ordinator
Impact-driver
Organiser-extradinaire
Proud New DadLulama certainly gets his daily Firestation steps in - he’s constantly accommodating, and always nice. But there’s more to the man that juggles meeting rooms and orchestrates events - He’s a new dad, and the epitome of a New Age One. You see, Lulama didn’t grow up in a traditional home and knows the importance of sharing the load, especially when it comes to being a dad.
He’s candid about the transition from husband to father, the difficulties, highs and lows, the lack of sleep and the importance of communication and shares that as a self-professed neat freak, he’s had to let some of his expectations go and goes as far as to say “The baby is not going to remember how clean the house was, but how happy the home was.”
