Blog Posts
Meet the Blogger
Geraldine Mamburu - “Writing on the wall” What should be one of the easiest questions to answer, “Tell me about yourself” is probably not always so. I suppose first thing first is who is the audience? As I ponder about this question, I’m wondering whether I tell you...
365 days and still counting…
Celebrating PDQ's 1st birthday! I’m looking at the calendar as it marks exactly a year since my first truck got onto the road and oh my, what a journey it has been! From everything working like clockwork to things falling apart as Chinua Achebe wrote, I can’t help but...
Baptism of fire in logistics
Baptism is a show of commitment to the Christian faith and signifies a lifelong covenant between God and self. The last couple of months have felt like I went through a baptism of fire which has signified a covenant between myself and the business (which is why I...
Gestation of a start-up in logistics: Surviving the first trimester
Having embarked on this entrepreneurial journey, I have come to realise that one could liken the conception of a business to pregnancy. When you announce the great news (of either a new business or a pregnancy), you receive congratulatory messages from far and...
Digitalization in logistics – A user’s experience
In some cultures, children are sometimes named after events that would have taken place close to or during their birth. Jokes around naming children Quarantine Buthelezi, Social-distance Moyo, or Pandemic Ndlovu, were...
Outliers
Genesis - How it all began. 2020 will go down in history as one of those years that reminded us of how fragile life is – how we are mere mortals and how our lives are but a candle in the wind. The turmoil that was 2020 made me re-evaluate what was important to me,...