Bulls n Bears Entrepreneurship Zone :: Four entrepreneurs bringing successful products to the market

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>From durable Pratley Putty to the slinky Kreepy Krauly, South Africans are
known for coming up with clever products and innovations that make life a
little easier.

Let’s take a look at four South African entrepreneurs that use innovation
to solve social problems or to harness the latest consumer trends, ensuring
that their products find their rightful spot in the limelight.


Cybertracker


CyberTracker has become a vital conservation tool and is used to monitor
wildlife around the globe, whether this is gorillas in the Congo,
butterflies in Switzerland or marine turtles in the Pacific. An icon
interface reduces data input errors and allows users to input data at a
speed and level not possible before. Its main advantage, though, is the
software developed by physicist Louis Liebenberg and computer scientist
Justin Steventon which uses an image-based interface and is not dependent on
a user’s reading and writing skills.


Ifele


Fashion designer Reggie Xaba is putting his best foot forward with his
luxury footwear brand, iFele, which has been worn on runways from
Johannesburg to Milan. Using a simple, traditional Zulu sandal called
izimbadada as inspiration, Xaba has reinterpreted and reinvented the concept
for the modern global consumer. He says the brand is aimed at the “African
urban nomad” and creates a style statement that shouts “proudly South
African”.


ForEVA Straws


By now, most of us agree that single-use plastic must go if we are to
create a more sustainable future. One of the items that has been given the
boot in many countries is the plastic straw. Cue ForEVA straws, the
brainchild of Megan Johnson. While Megan didn’t invent these hygienic,
reusable, high-quality stainless-steel straws, she refined the idea after
seeing something similar in Bali. The name ForEVA was inspired by her late
grandmother, Eva, who had raised her. Megan wanted to create a lasting
legacy and the result is a straw that is available in packs of four, with a
cleaning brush – the first of its kind to be commercially available in South
Africa.


Lumkani


Every year there are devastating fires in townships across South Africa. A
Medical Research Council report estimates that more than 50,000 South
Africans will suffer burn injuries in any year, the vast majority coming
from poorer communities.
In response, Francois Petousis, an engineering student at the time,
together with a lecturer and a few fellow students, invented Lumkani (‘be
careful’ in Xhosa). The low-cost early-warning devices register rapid spikes
in temperature and because all devices within a 60-metre radius are linked
wirelessly, an alarm is triggered that alerts all the connected homes if
there is a fire.--hoewemadeitinafrica



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