Best South African Solution – Eyerus, an app with an exclusively South African flavour and purpose that enables users to indicate how safe or unsafe they feel in their current surroundings through the use of four safety status modes.

Best Consumer Solution – 22seven, a consumer-centric app that makes the everyday lives of ordinary people more accessible and more convenient by helping users to manage their money better.

Best Incubated Solution – Sponsored by Tshimologong Precinct, this category awards an app created and built by an individual or team currently being developed by an accelerator or incubator hub. The winner is LayUp Payments app, which transforms a business’s lay-by book into a one-centralised digital payment platform.

Best Enterprise Solution – A local business app that is specifically targeted to solving business challenges, called My Smart City.

Best Hackathon Solution –YabiSaba, an app developed by the entrant that produced the best app as a result of participating in the MTN Business App Academy and the hackathon. It’s a booking platform that helps digital nomads to discover live-and-work yacht co-working spaces around the world.

Best Gaming Solution – A hotly contested category that is open to mobile, PC and console platforms or the use of gamification was won by Recess, which takes the e-learning experience to the next level by making exam preparation social, fun and visual.

Best Health Solution – Sponsored by Sentech, this year’s winner, for its support of health and wellness, is Buzzer Community Safety, an app developed to keep communities safe and connected.

Best Agricultural Solution – Sponsored by Tshikululu Social Investments, the award focuses on solving the growing agricultural challenges and capacity building in Africa. This year’s winner is Axl, an online equipment rental platform designed to facilitate the convenient hiring of equipment.

The grand prize-winning app – the MTN Business App of the Year – and the winner of R1m in prize money, is the Shoprite App.

“This year, the MTN Business App of the Year Awards attracted just over 1,000 entries – with many of the entered apps focused on solving societal and business problems. We congratulate all our winners and wish them well with their future endeavours. We look forward to a day, very soon, when our lesser-known winning apps become household names due to their positive and lasting impact on businesses and consumers into the future,” says Kholofelo Magagane, head of marketing at MTN Business.