Sivuyile Ngcanga

Most of my business plans came from tragedies which made me seek ways to solve them for the next person. This one came about when my mother, siblings and I spent 6 hours with my father’s dead body because the paramedics arrived after 2 hours and mortuary van after 4 hours of him being announced dead. You might think this is a service delivery problem but this time it’s not. The reason for the delay is that you cannot navigate in my township of Mdantsane & other rural areas in East London with the worlds leading navigation apps like Google Maps & Waze because there are no street names in these areas and the numerical numbers go up to the 1000s, also the numerical sequencing of the houses is not in the commonly used sequence of “odds and evens” as used in the urban areas, which adds to the struggle and confusion of locating any household. We solved this problem by plotting all households coordinates and then build a prototype to illustrate its works. We added other features to make the app desirable to users and investors.