With the unfortunate passing of Queen Elizabeth II, find out about the journey that lays ahead for King Charles III in his new position of power. Continue reading King Charles III: Powers And Duties As The New King
With a better understanding of how Covid-19 is transmitted, we can keep our risk to a minimum while still having a clean and happy home. Continue reading Crowds aren’t cool, but home cleaning is
On Saturday, 15 August 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that we will be moving to alert level 2 of the lockdown period. Which is great news for us South Africans as it means that we’ve been making some progress in … Continue reading We’ve Reached Level 2 Of Lockdown
– by Luke Kannemeyer In President Ramaphosa’s speech last night and with the leaking of draft level 3 regulations, many found welcome good news. Some highlights include that the curfew will be lifted, there will be minimal restriction on outdoor … Continue reading Your Domestic Worker Can Return On 1 June – Under These Conditions
– by Luke Kannemeyer Contrary to the many memes being shared about our President’s speech not containing any useful information, there were a number of very important points made on Wednesday night. While we all may have wished for greater … Continue reading President Cyril Ramphosa’s 13 May Speech: 5 Things You Need to Know
See how many of our top ten domestic sins you’re guilty of doing, and then try to make an effort to correct your habits going forward – or simply trust SweepSouth to get it right! Continue reading 10 Home Cleaning Mistakes You’re Making
Know the feeling that you get when someone has gone over and above to give you great service, completely exceeded your expectations, and you’re in no way able to adequately show just how impressed you are? According to our customers, … Continue reading Saying “Good Job” Just Got Easier – Tipping Now Enabled on SweepSouth
This Women’s Month we’re celebrating the incredible women who make SweepSouth the cleaning powerhouse that it has become in just two short years, from our SweepStar cleaners to our behind-the-scenes team and the customers who have taken a chance on … Continue reading Empowered Women, Empower Women. The Inspiring Story of Our CEO, Aisha Pandor.
Notice anything different? We’ve given ourselves a makeover! Plus we thought our new look deserved a new tagline too. However, you’ll notice that “Clean, Happy, Home.” reflects our core values which remain intrinsic and unchanging, guiding us in making the choices … Continue reading IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE THAT COUNTS
The Vumela Fund backs online home cleaning services platform SweepSouth Cape Town, 25 January 2016 – SweepSouth, the market-leading pioneer in on-demand home cleaning services on the African continent, today announced it has secured R10m in new funding. The … Continue reading SweepSouth Secures R10m from top SA Venture Capitalists
SweepSouth partners up with Uber to start the New Year off fresh Start the New Year with a 3h FREE SweepSouth home clean! Enter promo code CLEANSTART in the Uber App, take 2 rides before 20 Jan 2016 to gain … Continue reading SweepSouth partners up with Uber
We are super excited to announce that SweepSouth has been selected as one of the companies in Batch 14 of 500 Startups’ accelerator program, which started in July 2015. What started off as a friendly chat with one of 500’s Partners, … Continue reading SweepSouth joins 500 Strong
Reward your loved ones or yourself in 2 Easy Steps! With SweepSouth, you can buy and send gift vouchers in 2 easy steps: 1. Select gift voucher 2. Place order Easy as that! Oh and unlike milk, our gift vouchers don’t actually expire. Use it when you wish. 🙂 Payments can be made by credit or cheque card, or via EFT. With Father’s Day nearing, you can treat him to a gift voucher for a perfectly clean home. We look forward to helping you keep it tidy! The SweepSouth Team Continue reading Buy and Send Gift Vouchers
We are excited to introduce our newest SweepSouth team member. Unathi Mqikela will play a vital role in ensuring that our customers get the support they deserve. Unathi is highly passionate, loves helping people and delivering excellent customer service. She is an adventurous accounting student, who loves to seek out new challenges. Aisha R. Pandor SweepSouth CEO Continue reading Another Addition to the SweepSouth Team
We are happy to announce that SweepSouth is now operating in Pretoria in addition to Cape Town, Johannesburg and Centurion. We are excited to be growing our team of cleaners, and will be reaching more and more areas in the coming weeks. If you stay in these areas and are in need of a good home cleaning, book here. Otherwise, simply tell your friends and spread the news. We look forward to helping keep homes in the Jacaranda City tidy! Best regards, The SweepSouth Team Continue reading We’ve launched in the Jacaranda City
We are excited to introduce our newest SweepSouth team member. Luke Kannemeyer will play a vital role in optimising operations; something that is critical to high growth. Together with the team, Luke will help ensure that SweepSouth continues to deliver an excellent service to our customers and that we find ways to further improve on customer experience as we expand. Luke is a phenomenal problem-solver and is passionate about data-driven decision making. He holds an Honours Degree in Molecular Genetics, was selected as the Most Outstanding Postgraduate Leader at the University of Cape Town in 2012, and is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. We are extremely proud to have him on board. Aisha R. Pandor … Continue reading Newest addition to the SweepSouth Team
We are excited to announce our price cut of 24% effective immediately. The price cut affects all future one time and recurring bookings that haven’t been paid for yet. A number of technological factors have enabled us to bring our original price of R50 down to R38 per hour whilst further increasing the professional cleaners’ share of the revenue. There are some further exciting developments that we will be sharing insight into in the first quarter of 2015, so please keep your eyes open for our next newsletter. We would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful Festive Season and a Happy … Continue reading Now 24% Cheaper and Here to Stay
In our previous post we wrote about our experience at the Web Summit, and some of the things that were positive and not so great about attending. As mentioned one of our biggest “aha” moments was when we realised that while being an event for tech startups, the Web Summit itself is also a startup, and that there are some great lessons to be learned from how they operate, and have been able to grow from 400 attendees to over 22 000 in the last four years. Here are our takeaways: 1. Small can be good. We discussed with some … Continue reading Web Summit 2014 – 7 lessons for startups
We at SweepSouth consider ourselves a key player in modernising access to domestic cleaning in South Africa. With our online platform, our attitude towards empowering domestic cleaners, and our approach in using technology as a tool to make getting your home cleaned hassle-free, we look forward to making our mark on the industry. Besides platforms like ours though, there are many other ways in which technology is being used to make the process of getting your place cleaned more pain-free. We list a few of these innovations below. ALMOST WATERLESS LAUNDRY Xeros, based in the US, has developed a commercial washing machine containing polymer beads … Continue reading Clean Home Technology
The idea for SweepSouth came to us while Alen and I searched fruitlessly for someone to assist with domestic cleaning over the December holidays. Like many South Africans, we are fortunate enough to have assistance at home with domestic cleaning. However, with our regular hero sis Ntombi away for the holidays, we seemed fated to spend the vacation divvying up chores. We had previous dealings with some of the popular “agencies” in the country, and the experience had left us with a sour taste in our mouths. The ladies the agencies presented had no enthusiasm for the job, and … Continue reading The SweepSouth Vision
