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SPAZABOX · GROWAY
Your township. Your shop.
LIMPOPO FIRST · THEN THE NATION

288 settlements.
One province.
Then the country.

SpazaBoX is not a pilot. It's a deployment plan. We start in Limpopo — every IDP-named settlement, every village, every township — 288 nodes that the formal retail economy forgot. From year 3, the countrywide agent network activates: Gauteng, KZN, Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga — the same platform, the same discipline, the same off-grid solar backbone.

§01 — THE THESIS

Transforming South Africa from the ground up.

South Africa has a R900bn+ informal retail market, 100,000+ spaza shops, and chronic last-mile access gaps. The state funds the Spaza Shop Support Fund. UNDP runs the DIME digitalisation initiative. But nobody builds the field implementation — the actual containers, the actual solar, the actual Merchant OS, the actual operators on the ground. SpazaBoX is that implementation. We are not a fund. We are the operator.

— ACCESS
Retail where there is none
Grocery, pharmacy, fresh food, licensed trade — delivered to villages and townships where formal retail won't go. Off-grid solar means no Eskom dependency. Merchant OS means no bank-branch dependency.
— OWNERSHIP
Operators own the trade
Deposit R50k. Trade from day one. Own the BoX in 60 months. Merchant OS builds the credit history no informal spaza has ever had — the till is the collateral. The operator climbs the affordability ladder, not the debt ladder.
— PROVENANCE
Every sale, on a receipt
SAPE authenticates every SKU. Counterfeits are blocked at POS. Consumers QR-scan to verify. The informal economy gets a paper trail — and with it, credit history, tax compliance, and regulatory trust.
§02 — LIMPOPO FIRST

288 settlements. 5 districts. 22 municipalities.

We don't scatter. We saturate. Every IDP-named settlement in Limpopo — from Seshego to Thohoyandou, from Phalaborwa to Musina — gets 1–3 cluster units. Each cluster is 3–10 BoXes — a Corridor Mall, a Township Node, or a Rural Village Hub. At full saturation: 288 settlements × multiple clusters = approximately 1,584 doors deployed across Limpopo. When the last settlement is combed, the province has a complete off-grid retail grid. Then — and only then — we expand.

IDP settlements
288
Municipalities
22
Districts
5
Cluster configurations
3
Pilot sites trading
12

The 5 districts

CAPRICORN
Polokwane · Blouberg · Lepelle-Nkumpi
Seshego anchor · Polokwane Central · rural satellites
VHEMBE
Thulamela · Makhado · Collins Chabane · Musina
Thohoyandou Block F cluster · Musina border trade
WATERBERG
Thabazimbi · Bela-Bela · Modimolle · Mogalakwena · Lephalale
Mining-town nodes · Lephalale energy corridor
MOPANI
Greater Giyani · Greater Letaba · Ba-Phalaborwa · Maruleng
Giyani anchor · Phalaborwa mine-town · Hoedspruit gateway
SEKHUKHUNE
Various local municipalities
Rural village network · traditional authority sites

The deployment ladder

Year 1LIVE
Phase 0 — Seshego pilot
0 BoXes deployed (early-stage — seeking Series A funding) · 2 cluster nodes · 100 EOIs · R3.25m stock draw · DSCR 2.04×
Year 1-2IN PROGRESS
Phase 1 — Limpopo saturation
100 → 288 settlements · every IDP node combed · cluster model replicated across all 5 districts
Year 3PLANNED
Phase 2 — Countrywide activation
Agent network expands to Gauteng (Soweto, Alex, Tembisa) · KZN (uMlazi, KwaMashu) · the first province outside Limpopo
Year 4-5PLANNED
Phase 3 — National grid
Eastern Cape · Mpumalanga · North West · Free State · 1,584 doors at full Limpopo-equivalent saturation per province
§03 — THE NUMBERS

What 1,584 doors means.

Direct jobs at full Limpopo build
3,200
Operators + field team + fabrication + logistics
Women-led operators (target)
55%
Operator diversity — not a quota, a design principle
Capital required (Phase 0)
R3.4m
Target first draw: 12 doors across 2 Seshego cluster nodes — awaiting funding
Capital deployed (full Limpopo)
R274m
Peak exposure across 1,584 doors · DSCR 2.04× on doors capital
Stock circulated per year (Y1)
R0.9m+
GroSupply wholesale flowing into the township economy
Programme DSCR
2.04×
Doors capital basis — every door pays for itself 2× over
§04 — NATIONAL ALIGNMENT

Aligned to real SA programmes.

SpazaBoX is the field implementation of programmes the state has already funded but can't deliver. We don't compete with the state — we complete what the state started.

— Spaza Shop Support Fund (SSSF)
R500m fund, up to R300k/shop, SA-citizen-owned. SpazaBoX sites align to SSSF eligibility — every operator qualifies. Our Finance team cites SSSF in every funder proposal.
— UNDP DIME Initiative (Nov 2025)
3-pillar spaza shop digitalisation: digital infrastructure, financial inclusion, supply chain. SpazaBoX is the field implementation — Merchant OS is the digital infrastructure, the till is the financial inclusion, GroSupply is the supply chain.
— LEDA (Limpopo Economic Development Agency)
Site alignment for LEDA-zone villages. Our Site Selection team works with LEDA on zoning, permits, and site identification across all 22 municipalities.
— NCA s81 + CPA s14 + POPIA
Every operator vetted per the National Credit Act. Every lease renewed per the Consumer Protection Act. Every data flow assessed per POPIA. Our Legal team holds the opinions of record.
JOIN THE DEPLOYMENT

Be a node in the network.

Pick your settlement. Pick your trade. Deposit R50,000. Trade from day one. Own the BoX in 60 months. Be one of the 1,584.

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