Bolt, formerly Taxify is launching a food delivery service in South Africa. Details of what parts of the country the service will be live are still scanty but all points to Cape Town as the launch ground.
This makes South Africa the third country in over 25 countries where Bolt offers ride hailing services to see the service come into life. The other two being Finland and Bolt’s home ground, Estonia.
Bolt is coming fresh from a rebrand and will now join the likes of UberEats to muscle it out in the south African country.
Apparently it will first launch in Cape Town before launching in other bigger cities in South Africa. Whether the service will extend to other countries north of South Africa remains to be seen.
And in any case it happens, it will most likely to be Kenya before finding its way to Uganda, where we have at least got a test of food delivery from ride hailing service Uber.
Uber also hasn’t committed a launch window for a full fledged food delivery service in Uganda, though reports surfaced saying it will soon launch in the country. So will Bolt be the first?
Bolt has set up a site currently accepting restaurants and other partners to sign up for the service but offers no other details about the timeline of the service going live.
