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    How Eskom se Push became SAs most useful app

    Toby ShapshakBy Toby ShapshakDecember 13, 2021Updated:January 21, 20222 Comments1 Min Read
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    When two geeks tried to solve their own frustrations around rolling blackouts, they created a now-indispensable app called Eskom se Push. It now tells 2.5m South Africans every day what outages to expect from the power utility. Although the way Herman Maritz and Dan Wells have brought a county together, while demonstrating a key tenet of why innovation in Africa is better: innovation out of necessity. They tell Stuff Studios editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about this remarkable app’s unusual journey to greatness. Meanwhile, a grateful nation thanks them.

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    Toby Shapshak is editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff, a Forbes contributor and a Financial Mail columnist. He has been writing about technology and the internet for 20 years and his TED Global talk on innovation in Africa has over 1,5-million views. He has written about Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian in London. He was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans. He has been featured in the New York Times. GQ said he "has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."

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    2 Comments

    1. Carol-Anne Greeff on April 14, 2022 6:55 pm

      How can poer be connected and disconnected within seconds is this the free right for all really this is just getting worse

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    2. Carol-Anne Greeff on April 14, 2022 6:57 pm

      How can power be connected and disconnected within seconds is this the free right for all really this is just getting worse

      Reply

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