Thumela

Thumela - Send (Verb): Zulu Delivering parcels in Africa is a cumbersome process. Due to poor infrastructure and inconclusive addresses the process is slow, unreliable and expensive. And this excludes a large portion of the population in townships and rural areas from affordable access to the wealth of goods available online. Thumela - is an e-courier start-up that helps e-commerce businesses and individuals to send and receive parcels, faster, cheaper and conveniently. Thumela is on mission to redefine last-miles delivery while unlocking the potential of e-commerce in Africa. The core of Thumela’s business is a network of pickup points near or at taxi ranks and public taxi drivers who are independent parcel carriers. With this innovation, Thumela affords collectors the convenience to combine their daily commuting with the collection of parcels.