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H
e slept on the floor of his backyard barbershop for two years while staying off the streets and away from drugs. Now Warren Theunis is giving back to the industry that saved his life by “trying to make barbering cool again.” “I want to see barbering be valued as a profession; something that is cool, that kids strive to become one day. I want barbering to receive the respect it deserves,” says Theunis. His passion for the craft stems from the role it has played in him becoming the person he is today. “I was a drug addict from the age of 15 to 20. I was doing drugs every day and that was my lifestyle. “I dropped out of school and because my mother wasn’t very happy with me she kicked me out,” he says. He adds that his addiction became progressively worse; from smoking dagga to buttons and then to doing rocks. “My drug habit was aggressive. On 25 May 2000 I gave up on drugs. I remember being drugged out of my mind, having uppers and downers the night before.
“I was up early that Sunday morning and ironing my pants when a friend asked me why I was ironing and if I was going to church. Being cocky, I said ‘yes, are you going with’. Here we have these two drug addicts heading off to church. On that day I got saved and really started loving God.” He began offering free haircuts and found his passion. Succumbing to societal pressures, he accepted a job in sales, but he never felt he was living his purpose. “I felt like I lost my way, as if I was doing something to please other people, because we are pressured into wanting to do something more mainstream because it pleases someone else,” he says. After being retrenched he decided to venture into barbering full time. He took his last wage and bought a basic clipper kit. He had converted his bedroom in his grandmother’s backyard into a barbershop and slept on the floor for two years while building his clientele and skill. He says he owes much of his success in staying clean on his determination to make barbering a success while sleeping on the floor of this shop. V Continued on page 2.
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