![]() ![]() ![]() It provides taxi commuters information including prices and routes. The taxi industry has been slow in adapting to innovation, the Khwela app hopes to play a role in making that industry more relevant and user friendly. The app was founded by Brian Makwaiba and Oscar Monama who saw the opportunity to provide a holistic route to market solution for FMCG companies as well as spaza shop owners. This year’s Township Entrepreneurship Awards winners in the retail and finance category, the Vuleka app is changing how spaza shops in townships buy stock from the suppliers through the power of bulk purchase. ![]() The Kasi Eat s app helps township restaurants to market their menus and also manage food delivery orders.Ī delivery solution for the smaller township players, they are currently in the beta phase and they aim to take it to all townships across South Africa. Kasi Eatsįormed in 2015 but only launched in 2017. Stokfella is not the only tech startup that’s succeeding in bringing tech into a market that has been largely ignored – below is a list of our favourite township-based apps. How do you as a techpreneur developing for a broad market make your solution easily palatable to your end user?” “The challenge doesn’t lie in not being tech savvy, the challenge lies in how businesses can make the solutions not technically complicated. We have seen stokvels that one would consider low-tech, however, they have capable smartphones and are using apps daily. “Perhaps this is the reason why this market has been neglected for so long. He made it his mission to change this with his financial management application for stokvels, Stokfella, which allows users to keep a record of all financial transactions. In an interview with SME South Africa, techpreneur Tshepo Moloi touched on changing perceptions of township-based businesses as low tech. ![]()
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