"The first two years of the business seemed a constant struggle. I operated from a tiny flat in Durban and worked on very small projects while struggling to build my clientele. But you soon realise that when you are persistent, you eventually get a break and we managed to land …

"A few years ago we hired surveyors to help us record ground lying entities. In this way we could record things like lampposts, fences, sewer manholes etc. We then downloaded the information and overlaid our data onto those co-ordinates. We completed the whole of East London this way."