Nkazimulo Applied Sciences, Kwa-Zulu Natal.Bathabile Mpofu and her partner Roderick are rightly proud of her winning startup. Nkazimulo Applied Sciences is a company that helps high school learners to develop a greater understanding of science concepts. The organisation creates chemistry sets with 52 different experiments for safe use at home. This ingenious initiative not only enables learners to apply their minds to science within everyday life situations, but also ensures that the experiments link back to the high school curriculum.

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Senovate – the brainchild of Themba Sewahu – took second place in our 2016 Startupper competition. The Senovate is an ingenious machine that allows farm workers to pick fruit and prune fruit trees without having to use ladders. As a result of its functionalities, the machine not only increases efficiency, but also guarantees higher levels of safety for South Africa’s large agricultural sector.

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Oyena Zwelijongile Gwebityala, Melissa McCoy, Smisosenkosi Skosana and Sekeitto Allan-Roy are the co-founders of ConnectMed, which is an online telemedicine platform designed to suit African conditions and the current medical and technological landscape of the continent.

The main function of ConnectMed is to connect certified doctors with those in need through; video, text and machine learning-based tools. The offering is low-cost and high-quality and is accessible to those in need (a fingertip away from solid, professional advice).

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Collin Nico/Uirab and Dennis Maetago/Uirab are the founders of Loc8. It’s a mobile App that uses the phone’s GPS and pinpoints the user’s geo-location based on the areas of interest selected by the user upon the sign-up process. The App then beams all the Offers, Services and Products based on the areas of interest selected by the user to their device or mobile phone. Once the user is inside the merchant outlet, he/she can then use our NFC-powered e-wallet payment portal where the user can use his phone and pay for goods and services rendered.

Startupper of the yearnamibia – 2016

iScollin nico uirab

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Peter Tshithigona came up with a creative innovation of an SMS service that will list all formal and informal service providers. The general public will query the SMS service when they have a need for a certain type of service. They will receive a response SMS with the contact details of the service providers registered on the service.

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JTT Industries (Pty) Ltd t/a Agricycle Namibia is the brainchild of Gunter Rust, John Lush and Toivo Thomas. Their company produces alternative animal feed, biodiesel and fertilizer through the cultivation and processing of Insect Biomass. They also farm insect larvae to create marketable products at lower costs to conventional alternatives for the local market.

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iSjohn lush

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