After struggling to find a cleaner, Alen Ribic and Aisha Pandor poured their financial savings into launching SweepSouth – a platform where customers can use ebook cleaners. Today the application is considered the Uber of cleaning services – with over R100 million in the beyond yr.
Speaking to VIA (DStv channel 147) ‘s private-finance display Geldhelde, Pandor stated they invested all their savings for their children’s college fees into the commercial enterprise in 2013. “It’s been a long process of getting back on track to being financially responsible parents and adults,” Pandor stated.
“We concept if we should construct something like Uber that uses era that connects domestic people looking for work with young human beings like us who’re looking for their services,” Pandor is the daughter of science and technology minister Naledi Pandor. The platform lists available domestic workers for people to ebook, in which SweepSouth takes a marginal commission. Like Uber, the home people are not directly hired by SweepSouth but use the platform to make bookings.
“We went from the two folks operating around our dining-room desk – each people sitting all day and working on this marketing strategy – to going from some home workers we have been interviewing ourselves,” Pandor said. “[We] even went from cleansing homes ourselves to having eleven 000 home people at the platform.” On common, Sweep South expenses R38 an hour at the platform without hidden expenses. The cleaners get among sixty-five% (R24.70) and eighty-five% (R32.30) of that quantity. The national minimum salary is R15 in keeping with the hour.
Pandor said all home people, predominantly single moms with dependents, are interviewed with the aid of SweepSouth before they may be deployed. Pandor stated that cleaners can earn up to R8,000 a month plus pointers, beating domestic workers’ everyday profits. Today, the company employs 40 employees, and the objective is to release similar services in Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria, and Ghana.
