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Sithembiso and Sithabiso are identical twins who have been with Amrod for over 10 years. If you happen to be at Amrod at twenty past six in the morning, you’ll find the twins snatching a moment to catch up on each other’s lives. Even though they live just one street apart in Hillbrow, Sithe works Day-Shift and Sitha works Night-Shift so this is their only time to see each other in the week. They are both Team Leaders and their careers at Amrod have followed exactly the same trajectory.
We came to South Africa from Bulawayo when we were 21 and we didn’t come to play. We came to be breadwinners for our family back home. Our mother is old now and it is our responsibility to care for her. We were both retrenched in 2010 and Sitha got an interview at Amrod to be an Embroidery Machine Operator. She said, “Don’t you have a job for my sister?” so they said she should come for an interview the next day. We both started our jobs on the same day. A few years later, we both moved into a new department (DTC).
After seven years, we were both promoted to Team Leaders.
We’ve always done everything together. We are each other’s best friend, and the person we trust most in the world. We are so blessed to work at Amrod. When there were the xenophobic attacks in town, we didn’t send our children to school and we didn’t go out, except for coming to work. At Amrod we felt safe.
Here we are one family and no one has ever discriminated against us because we are foreigners. Our mother has never seen where we work, but we’ve shown her Amrod’s catalogue. We are proud to work here.
Sithembiso (Sithe) Masuku (37) and Sithabiso (Sitha) Masuku (37)
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