DIGITISING DIGNITY: How KasiConnect reimagines local entrepreneurship
By Sitha Maliwa:
A new digital platform is positioning itself at the centre of South Africa’s growing push toward economic inclusion, with an ambitious goal of transforming how township entrepreneurs participate in the formal economy.
KasiConnect, founded by entrepreneur and women’s empowerment advocate Keitsile Jacobs Masilo, describes itself as a digital ecosystem designed to connect township-based professionals with customers, payment systems, and online visibility tools that have traditionally been out of reach for informal businesses.
At the core of the initiative is a challenge to the current structure of the economy, which the platform says leaves vast amounts of talent operating outside the digital systems that define modern comm...