Who We Are & What We Stand For
Two CPUT graduates from Soweto and Port Elizabeth — frustrated by a broken system — built the alternative South Africa deserved.
"Modern urban mobility is entirely dependent on your smartphone, your data, and the grid. When any of those fail, you're stranded. We decided to fix that."
Modern urban mobility networks share a critical vulnerability: they depend entirely on commuters possessing charged personal devices and access to a stable power grid. When those conditions fail, the entire system fails. People get stranded.
Dumisane Zikalala and Alulutho Mbangela, both CPUT graduates, saw this problem from different corners of South Africa. One from Soweto, one from Port Elizabeth. Both realized the solution wasn't to build a better app. It was to remove the need for an app altogether.
RideBox extracts digital mobility software from personal smartphones and embeds it directly into solar-powered physical infrastructure deployed at airports, universities, and shopping malls. The result: safe, accessible transportation that works regardless of load shedding, dead batteries, or data depletion.
Every design decision follows one principle: does this make safe, affordable, and dignified transport more accessible to more South Africans?