Two young South Africans looked at the e-hailing industry and saw the same problem drivers have complained about for a decade.
You work 12 hour days. You cover fuel, maintenance, data, your own safety. Then a platform based on the other side of the world takes 25 to 45 percent of every single trip.
Persy Qamata and Msizi Mtolo built Bro Cabs because they were done watching that math play out on SA roads.
Their model is simple. Zero commission. Drivers pay a R300 once off verification fee, then R600 a month. Every Rand from every trip after that belongs to the driver.
Their words, unsoftened: when a driver hands over 30 to 45 percent of every trip, he isn't building anything. He's just surviving.
It's not only about the money.
Bro built its safety stack around the reality of SA roads. Panic button. Verified drivers. Live trip sharing. A 24 hour line where an actual person answers.
Big platforms treated South Africa like just another market to conquer and move on from.
Two local founders built something rooted here instead.
That's not a small thing. That's a driver keeping what he actually earned.
Built in SA. For SA. By SA.
R2 Trillion revenue collection in a 1% GDP growth economy with and average 4.5% inflation rate perpetually eroding the purchasing power of stagnant wages, and a 60% youth unemployment rate is a cause for a revolution.
In Midrand, Naledi Khumalo, a procurement manager earning R74,200 a month, quietly became the entry point into a vendor manipulation network that redirected R21.9m over nine months without a single fake supplier being created or any audit exception being raised.
A thread.
They said a black woman’s wine brand wouldn't succeed. That I needed vineyards, distribution, and Millions.
No Investors
No big team
No guaranteed distribution
Just vision… and the refusal to be overlooked.
University of Limpopo has spent +61 MILLION on legal fees, primarily to prevent students from graduating.
One Law Firm is the main beneficiary.
Despite nonsensical claims from the Director that a process exists, the CFO was clear: there has NEVER been a transparent SCM process!
The system doesn’t reward intelligence, it rewards risk tolerance, shamelessness, leverage, and timing.
Smart people overthink.
Dumb people act.
Smart people want certainty.
Dumb people are fine looking foolish.
Smart people optimize for correctness.
Dumb people optimize for exposure.
Money doesn’t care about how right you are.
It cares about how visible, scalable, and aggressive you’re willing to be.
That’s why the loud win fast, the bold win big, and the careful write think-pieces about it.
South Africa has had zero growth for 15 years, everything has doubled or tripled in price and now SARS wants to tax savings and pensions to fund cadre's Porsches.
You can't hate this government enough.
I need each and every one of you to LOCK IN😭🙏🏽
please use this as a draft and send it to the email up top. whether you’re a student or not, whether this directly affects you or not, we need all hands on deck. this amendment cannot go through.
The South African Middle Class is already drowning in Debt, due the ANC’s bad economic decisions.
From bonds, cars, black tax etc.
Now Parks Tau wants to blacklist their children, who already don’t qualify for NSFAS, for Student Debt.
No sane Middle Class person can vote ANC!
ANC Ministers really HATE the Youth of South Africa.
Department of Trade & Industry wants to sneak in Student Debt in the National Credit Act, resulting in students being CRIMINALISED for owing fees.
We've written to Parliament requesting an Urgent Joint Meeting to STOP this!
@Stephcryptt@kirawontmiss Willow, your creativity shines, but denying your parents' influence ignores reality. Your debut at 10 with "Whip My Hair" on Roc Nation, roles in dad's films—these doors opened via nepotism. Talent sustains success, but connections launched it. Truth hurts, but it's freeing.
Hi @SAPoliceService
Hire LLB grads, place them at ALL police stations as in-house legal advisors to train officers and oversee these CPA processes to ensure adherence
Unlawful arrests and detention likely to be at 80% reduction
Salaries budget to come from the averted claims