Aisha Pandor on building South Africa's SweepSouth
SweepSouth has grown in leaps and bounds and in 2021 acquired Egyptian startup, Filkhedma. In this interview, Aisha Pandor shares some insights on the journey so far.
The gig economy, or on-demand economy as some call it, has in some quarters been punted as a possible solution to South Africa's unemployment problem. With the rise of many online-based on-demand services companies worldwide, especially in America, I wondered how such companies are doing in Africa and especially in South Africa.
To understand the impact of gig economy startups in South Africa and some of their challenges, I had a chat with Aisha Pandor, CEO, and Co-founder of South Africa's SweepSouth, on how she and her co-founder, Alen Ribic, who is also her husband, built an on-demand home cleaning service that now reportedly processes over 50,000 bookings per month.
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