OUR STORY

In 2016, while on a film shoot, Tebogo Rangwaga approached Felix Meyburgh and told him about this great idea he had. They have been friends for more than 25 years and both work in the film industry. So why did he mention the idea you may ask? Well as a hobby Felix had learned to write code and that's why Tebogo told him. It was an idea for a Funeral Notice Forms website.

Tebogo lives in Kwa-Thema and saw a need for a Funeral Notice Forms website because the community rely on the local newspaper to post funeral notices. The problem was that the newspaper went to print on Fridays so many people would miss out on funerals or memorials that happened during the week.

At the time Felix had not really understood why there was a need for something like this but two years later his dear Mom passed and while sitting in the offices of a very prominent funeral parlour the need arose to inform family, friends and interested parties. The only option on the table was that of posting it in the local newspaper. THIS IS BIZARRE BECAUSE THE SMART-PHONE WAS INVENTED IN 1992 BY IBM OVER 28 YEARS AGO.

Three months later Tebogo called Felix and asked, “Are we going to do this thing or not?” That is now history because they have designed a website to fulfill this need. It is called the Funeral Notice Forms application and it is a proudly South African creation.

So... what does it do?

In a nutshell, it instantly creates social media friendly notices from our website. Which is really smart because these notices are then shared with all selected contacts on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, Instagram and other platforms. These contacts then share it with their friends and so on. So accurate information is disseminated, something that does not always happen on social media.