The final 2 years have been difficult for companies. Everybody did their literal finest to navigate unpredictable closures, adjustments in client habits, complicated laws, and new sanitisation necessities. There’s little doubt that it’s been powerful.
That mentioned, whereas some have actually battled, others used tech to their full benefit and tailored and got here out the opposite facet with a revolutionary providing.
We requested round our kingdom for everybody’s favorite tech companies and put collectively a listing of some native manufacturers which can be driving the tech wave to make life simpler and extra fascinating. Now you need to use this record to maintain up with what’s occurring on the market!
Listed below are our prime native firms which can be taking the tech area by storm.
IKhokha: Digital instruments to assist entrepreneurs begin, run and develop their enterprise
Historically, small-to-medium companies (SMEs) had little or no choices out there when it got here to their alternative of card cost options. Enter iKhokha, a neighborhood fintech firm that was based to assist SMEs develop their operations via varied nifty transportable card machines and on-line cost providers. Now companies of all sizes can settle for card funds with an iKhokha card machine and develop their companies the straightforward means, with no contracts and no rental charges.
Yebo Recent: Fantastically delivered groceries
Yebo Recent affords on-line procuring providers to Cape City’s townships. The tech-driven meals enterprise focuses on making high quality, recent meals, and family items accessible to townships and casual settlements, and helps native spazas, eating places, faculties, day care centres, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) save time, trouble and cash by delivering per merchandise and in bulk at nice costs! All of which everybody can simply do by navigating their slick on-line platform that guides you thru the ordering course of.
TymeBank: New child on the banking block
TymeBank is a purely digital sensible financial institution with pay-as-you-use providers that provides South Africans entry to a handy, uncomplicated, and cheaper means of banking. It’s paperless, there’s a 5-minute on-line sign-up course of, and you may pop over to any TymeBank kiosk inside Decide n Pay and Boxer shops nationwide to confirm your account, acquire your card, and draw money. The financial savings half is available in with no blanket month-to-month charges, simply transaction prices which can be reportedly 30 to 50% decrease than different banks.
WildEarth TV: Bringing the wildlife into each residence
Not every thing tech is finance and meals. Some firms are disrupting our little employee bee minds with a contact of wildlife. Can’t go on safari? No drawback. WildEarth TV connects folks from all over the world with nature via broadcasting dwell and interactive experiences from the wilderness. The corporate is now licensed to offer its exhibits to SABC 3, DStv, the BBC, Tencent, and China’s CGTN, in addition to streaming on YouTube, Fb, Periscope, and Twitch. Thousands and thousands are transported from all over the world to dwell wildlife content material and it’s superb.
EasyEquities: An uncomplicated platform to purchase shares
Who thinks of investing as straightforward? What? No one? Properly, now it’s. EasyEquities makes shopping for shares straightforward, low cost, and enjoyable so that everybody can use their on-line platform to personal shares within the firms they love. The platform (on their web site and app) offers a step-by-step journey so that you can comply with and communicates all the prices and costs that you simply pay upfront. This fashion, you’re guided via the sign-up course of, the way to add cash to your account, how to select from the businesses listed on EasyEquities, and the way to choose how a lot to spend. Then you definately simply click on to purchase and watch your cash develop.
The system even offers you helpful assets that will help you when you actually do not know the place to start out, together with weblog posts, and video tutorials.
SweepSouth: Guide residence providers on-line
This can be a tech firm that’s in it for each the shoppers and the staff. Principally, you possibly can e-book handy and versatile residence providers, whereas the staff can discover dignified work alternatives with respectable pay. It takes a couple of minutes to hitch up on SweepSouth’s superb web site or app and e-book a personalized residence service by detailing what you want carried out and how much cleansing merchandise you have got out there. Then, vetted workers can see the place and once they wish to work, and so they preserve 80% of their earnings (and all of their suggestions). It really works for each events.
Like everybody else on this record, we’re utilizing tech to assist our shoppers do issues quicker and extra conveniently. Just lately, we launched our royal app that empowers you to get automotive insurance coverage in a couple of minutes, add extra cowl to your coverage, do a automotive inspection in your telephone (no extra discovering your nearest evaluation centre) change your automotive insurance coverage extra, submit a declare, and even replace your particulars.
Now there’s no must do insurance coverage the laborious means!
Discover the King Value app in your App Retailer or when you’re within the temper for a chat, then name us on 0860 50 50 50. You’ll be able to even go to our web site to get a automotive insurance coverage quote.
