Entrepreneur takes quality products to the township consumer
TANYA McCLEAN TAKING the traditional stokvel business model to the digital level, reducing the cost of food for township communities and creating jobs - that's the win-win situation being implemented by owner of Thrift Online, Thabiso Mongane from Soweto. Mongane, who has a background in corporate banking, said that Thrift Online is a social commercial platform with the original goal being to target students and their grocery needs. The concept was simple, aggregate the student grocery demand and co-ordinate individual purchases into bulk purchases, making grocery shopping far more affordable for the student market. But then the Covid-19 pandemic hit…