Kalahari.com: Going Places with the Marketplace
CASE STUDY. In February 2010, online retail company kalahari.com, launched the Marketplace, a trading platform aimed at allowing third parties to use the kalahari.com site to sell their goods.
Rabelani Dagada
Rabelani Dagada is a lecturer at Wit Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Expertise: Information Systems and Knowledge Management
Vodacom m-pesa: ‘Mobilising’ Cash in a Challenging Market
CASE STUDY. In March 2012, Mark Taylor, managing executive for Online and Vodacom m-pesa, reflected on the 19 months since the launch in South Africa of m-pesa, Vodacom’s mobile payment platform.
eThekwini MetroConnect: Broadband for the Community
CASE STUDY. In the early 2000s, the eThekwini Municipality, which included the large city of Durban in the province of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa embarked on a strategy to turn Durban into a ‘Smart City’.
Bidorbuy: Bidding for First Place
CASE STUDY. In November 2009, bidorbuy was the largest South African online marketplace. Following a failed attempt earlier in the year to purchase bidorbuy, kalahari.net – a subsidiary of Naspers and a highly successful online retailer – indicated that it was going to compete directly with bidorbuy as an online marketplace.