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Your community, finally trustworthy.

Makhe is a verified, secure community platform for South Africa. See what’s happening on your street. Report problems that get fixed. Walk home safely. Trade with neighbours you can trust.

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A day with Makhe

What it actually looks like to live with Makhe.

Not hypothetical. Five moments from the app.

Morning

A pothole that gets fixed.

It’s 06:45 on a Tuesday. There’s a burst water pipe on the corner. You open Makhe, tap Report Incident, and send it. By 07:10 you have a municipal ticket number you can follow. By lunch, you know whether it’s being resolved.

06:45
06:45••• ◉ 87%
Incident reported Ward 18 · Burst water pipe
Report logged
Sent to municipal services
Ticket
GM-2026-04821
Under review · Est. response 4 hours
Midday

A bursary you would have missed.

At lunch you scroll your ward feed and see a new bursary has been posted — Sasol, your ward, opening Friday. It’s filtered to you because Makhe knows where you live and what you’re looking for. One tap to apply.

12:30
12:30••• ◉ 72%
Opportunities Matched to your ward
Sasol Bursary 2027 ✓
Verified · Opens Friday
Undergraduate engineering & chemistry — open to residents in your ward.
Bursary
Harambee Youth ✓
Verified · Learnership
12-month paid programme for matriculants — applications close 30 May.
Learnership
Ward 18 Mentoring
Thabo M. · 2h ago
Looking for 5 Grade 11 learners for free maths mentoring. Saturdays.
Afternoon

A fridge, a verified neighbour.

You need a fridge. You search your ward marketplace. Every seller is ID-verified. The transaction is escrow-protected. The fridge is three streets away. You collect this weekend, pay through Makhe, both sides protected.

15:20
15:20••• ◉ 64%
Marketplace Listings within 2km
3 photos
R 3 200
Defy 350L fridge — excellent condition
Nomsa D.
✓ ID-verified · 3 streets away
Escrow-protected · payment released on collection
Dusk

Walking home safely.

It’s 17:30. You start a Safe Walk. Your mother, your best friend, and your cousin see your live GPS until you confirm you’re home. No false alarms. No promises Makhe cannot keep. Just the people you trust, watching your walk.

17:30
17:30••• ◉ 51%
Safe Walk active
1.2 km to home · ETA 14 min
Evening

Your councillor, actually posting.

At 19:00 you read the agenda for next week’s ward committee meeting, posted by your councillor — with a verified badge so you know it’s really her. You can DM her. Your voice reaches her channel, verified.

19:00
19:00••• ◉ 42%
Ward feed Ward 18 · Secunda
Cllr. M. Mabena ✓
Councillor · 30 min ago
Ward Committee agenda for Tuesday 29 April is now published. Topics: water, roads, youth programmes. DM me to add an item.
Ward committee
Thandi K.
Neighbour · 1h ago
Streetlight on Van der Walt fixed this morning — thanks to whoever reported it.
Sizwe N.
Neighbour · 3h ago
Anyone know a reliable plumber in the area? Need a quote this week.

Five moments. One app. Your community, finally trustworthy.

What Makhe does

Five tools, built for South African community life.

Every one of them verified. Every one of them yours.

Community feed

See what’s happening on your street. Verified posts from your neighbours, your councillor, and your ward — scoped to exactly where you live.

Safe Walk

Share your live GPS with the people you trust until you arrive home. No false alarms. The responders are the people who care about you.

Incident reports

Report a pothole, a water outage, an electrical fault. Get a real municipal ticket you can track. No more complaints that disappear.

Opportunities

Bursaries, learnerships, jobs, mentoring — filtered to your location and your profile. The right opportunities, without the noise.

Local marketplace Coming soon

Buy and sell with verified neighbours. Every seller ID-checked. Every transaction above R500 escrow-protected. Trust, built in.

Trust, built in

Every user, every listing, every official account — verified.

South Africans deserve a space online that is honest. Makhe is that space.

4 tiers
Identity verification
Phone · email · ID · biometric
R500
Escrow threshold
Every transaction above — protected
POPIA-native
Compliance by design
Not retrofitted. Built in from day one.
A diverse, multiracial group of neighbours standing together

Why we built Makhe.

South Africans have learned to expect a trust deficit online.

Scams on Marketplace. Catfishing on WhatsApp. Imposter councillor accounts on Facebook. The platforms South Africans rely on were not built to verify who is real and who is not.

Makhe is the opposite. Every user is verified before they can act. Every listing is backed by a real identity. Every official account is checked. Every transaction over R500 is escrow-protected.

Trust is not a feature on Makhe. It is the foundation.

Early access

Be first to know when Makhe is on your phone.

Join the early access list. We’ll email you the moment Makhe is live in the App Store and Google Play.

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Frequently asked

Before you join.

Makhe is a mobile app that gives you a verified, scoped, safer version of your community online. Community feed, safety tools, opportunity hub, and marketplace — all in one app, all verified.
Yes. The app is free for residents. We make money from local advertisers, verified-business subscriptions, and marketplace fees.
We launch in 2026. Join the early access list and we’ll email you the moment it’s live in the App Store and Google Play.
Verification is tiered. You can read the feed after signing up with a phone and email. Higher-trust actions — marketplace, verified business — require ID verification. Your data is POPIA-aligned and encrypted.
No. Makhe is built for every South African ward — urban, peri-urban, and rural. The app scopes to wherever you are.
You can contact us at makhe.co.za/contact for press, partnerships, investor, or general enquiries.