The Uber For Deliveries

A Gauteng transport company is disrupting the delivery market by combining old-fashioned service delivery with new-era online sales.

- Glenneis Kriel

Growing awareness of the massive demand for delivery vehicles in Gauteng led to Khathutshelo Mufamadi starting Droppa, a company through which people can rent out their bakkies or trucks on an ad-hoc basis.

“While working fulltime as a computer programmer at a bank, I bought a Kia k2700 truck and later a Nissan bakkie to do deliveries for my sister’s events equipment rental business,” says Mufamadi. “This on-the-side business snowballed until I could no longer keep up with demand, which gave me the idea to start a bakkie and truck hiring company similar to Uber.”

Mufamadi started the company in February 2016, with personal savings and seed capital from Mlab South Africa and IM IN Accelerator. Since then, the company has signed up more than 120 bakkies and trucks, the majority recruited through advertisements on online advertising sites.

“To participate, positive identification, a valid driver’s licence and vehicles with a mileage of no more than 180 000km are required,” Mufamadi says.