Entrepreneur Siyanda Mthethwa, 36, has responded to the escalating fuel costs that are crippling small, rural businesses and households in eShowe, KwaZulu-Natal, by launching an online grocery delivering business.
, delivers groceries to the doorsteps of rural homes and spaza shops in eShowe.
According to Mthethwa, villagers had to travel more than 40km to buy products and food in town. Rural spaza shop owners, including his grandmother, were hard hit by the rising fuel costs as they stock twice a week. “I received private funding of R1-million, which helped me to get three delivery vans and a small warehouse where we operate our call centre in eShowe. The call centre is a critical component of our business because people do not have internet access here and they do not have airtime in most cases. They can simply send a ‘Please Call Me’ and we will respond,” he says.
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