{"id":7692,"date":"2014-11-04T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2015-11-18T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:44:33","slug":"rapelang-rabana-entrepreneur-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/?p=7692","title":{"rendered":"Rapelang Rabana &#8211; Entrepreneur To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUSINESS: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rekindlelearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">REKINDLE LEARNING<\/a> |\u00a0<\/strong>SECTOR:<strong> INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rapelang Rabana is a technology and internet entrepreneur and founder of ReKindle Learning. ReKindle Learning delivers learning solutions on mobile devices grounded in the leading and most effective learning paradigms and methodologies for both school-goers and corporate employees. Born in Gaborone, Botswana. She graduated in 2005 with a B.Bus.Sci (Comp Sci) degree from the University of Cape Town after which, she and her classmates co-founded Yeigo, an innovative Cape Town-based company that developed some of the world\u2019s earliest mobile VoIP applications.<\/p>\n<p>Yeigo created ground-breaking applications and services that took advantage of the internet, mobile and cloud computing technologies to tackle the cost of communication. In 2008, the Swiss-headquartered Telfree Group of Companies, acquired a majority stake in Yeigo, enabling the group to provide the full range of telecommunications services as a fully licensed operator in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Coined by CNN.com as one of Africa\u2019s Marissa Mayers, Rapelang serves as the Chairperson for Ubuntu Africa Child Healthcare. She was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum and was also listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 \u2013 Africa\u2019s Best Young Entrepreneurs and the Oprah Magazine \u2018O Power List\u2019. Rapelang is an Ambassador and Juror for the United Nations World Summit Awards, a Harambe HEA \u201913 Associate and also an Endeavor \u2018high-impact\u2019 entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @rapelangrabana<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>AUTHOR: Kasibiz Mahala Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSINESS: REKINDLE LEARNING |\u00a0SECTOR: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Rapelang Rabana is a technology and internet entrepreneur and founder of ReKindle Learning. ReKindle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[93,121,91,92,362],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-stories","tag-ict","tag-kasibiz","tag-rapelang-rabana","tag-rekindle-learning","tag-township-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasibiz.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}