Sabelo Cafe originally known as Sabelo Multi Meat Spaza Shop was founded in 2002 in the backyard inside what was a car garage. Sabelo Multi Meat Spaza Shop was merely formulated to put food on the table by an ordinary entrepreneur, Smanga Mkhabela and later joined by his wife Thuli Mkhabela. In those days, their children particular Xolani Mkhabela who died before the age of 21 will work behind the counter after school to release his parents so he can shape the business. After his passing, the spaza shop handed itself down to Thulani Mkhabela at the age of 11, whom pride himself today for his brother teachings in running the family business at an early young age.