Cake bake winner will be ‘dangerous in Benoni’
Percy Nomlala (28) was reduced to tears when he learned that he had won the professional category of the Benoni City Times Mother's Day Cake Bake competition, on Thursday, last week.
Berry Legg, of Miz Goos Berry, who co-judged the category, announced to the audience that the Wattville resident’s beetroot cake, depicting a Canon camera, had come out tops.
Nomlala battled to keep back his tears and stop his hands from shaking as the crowd cheered for him.
“I was emotional because I worked hard doing the cake and gave all my time to baking it,” he told the City Times minutes after the announcement.
“When I am at home I only bake; the only thing I love to do is baking.”
Legg was impressed with the quality of the cake.
“I keep getting goose bumps today, the reason is: I love it when people listen,” said Legg.
Legg commended Nomlala on the sewing machine cake he baked last year, which did not win.
“I spoke to him last year – he made the most unbelievably beautiful sewing machine,” she said.
“I am a teacher by profession, and this young man is a good student.
“I never taught him, but he listened to everything I said last year,
“This young man, I want to tell you, is going to be dangerous in Benoni,
“Percy, I am so proud of you.
“You are an extremely creative, gifted young man and may God richly bless you in your business.”
The self-taught baker does sell his cakes, but hopes to grow his business to enable him to employ people in Wattville.
Nomlala won a consultancy prize from Legg, to the value of R4 500, and a tool kit from Buco.
