Africa’s innovators turn to tech to tackle transport woes

Men offload large bags of produce from an Ox truck in Nyamasheke, Rwanda. — Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout via Ox

DURBAN: After a minibus taxi driver threatened to throw her out on the street for asking him to slow down as he raced down the highway, South African nurse Lebogang Matjila scoured the Internet for a safer, cheaper way to get to her patients.

When she found Planet42, a rent-to-buy car company that said it would help her eventually own her own vehicle, she thought it sounded too good to be true.