A line-up of gig workers — ride-hail drivers, delivery riders, couriers — against the city skyline A delivery driver scanning a parcel beside his van, mid-shift A driver focused at the wheel at night, the city lights behind her A driver in his car at dusk, checking the app, mountain and golden sky behind him A motorbike delivery rider in helmet on her bike at night, checking the app between drops
Tesha · Live in SA

Fuel today.
Built for tomorrow.

A card that fills the tank now and repays itself when your platform pays you. No payslip. No paperwork. No missed shifts.

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The brand · in our own words /tɛʃa/ · verb · noun
TESHA.
To put in the work. To show up before sunrise and stay out past last drop. The fuel of the hustle.
In a sentence

"Bra, ngiyatesha la phandle, ngifuna ukuthenga umuzi wami ngonyaka ozayo."

Bra, I'm out here putting in the work, I want to buy my own house next year.

This is who we are. It's who we serve.

5:00am · Eastern Cape A lone driver at a petrol station before sunrise, the shift hasn't started
Chapter one

The tank is empty
before the shift begins.

By 7am the wheels need to turn, but the wallet is already gone — to last week's fuel, this week's school, next week's rent. The shift starts in the red.

"You don't need a loan. You need your next tank — today."

07:32am · Card activated A delivery rider holding the Tesha card at a petrol forecourt
Available fuel
R 2,500
Live
Chapter two

Tesha sees the work banks miss.

We score across all the platforms you already work on. No payslip. No bank statement. Real-time income, scored hourly. Card in hand the same day.

How the card works ↓
The workforce

Different cars. Different bikes. Same hustle.

Minibus taxi driver at a Soweto rank
Taxi · Soweto rank
Sixty60 rider beside her scooter at golden hour
Sixty60 · scooter run
A driver in moody late-night light, hours into the shift
Late shift · the city won't sleep
How it works

Earn, refill, drive again.

Your platform pays you, your card pays itself. The rail collects from earnings the moment they land. No application. No paperwork. No moment without fuel.

A driver checking the app on her phone-mount mirror, ready to start
A group of gig workers laughing together at a taxi rank

You keep the country moving.
Now it moves with you.

Tesha runs on what you actually earn — every fare, every drop, every shift. The tank comes today. The track record starts today.

Month six · Owner-track A row of homes at sunset
Membership
Builder · 03
Climbing
Chapter three

The card is the door.
The keys come next.

Every shift on Tesha writes a record nobody else is keeping. Six months in, that record opens doors a payslip never could — your own car, your own roof, your own retirement.

The membership journey →
We're not the cheapest tank.
We're the first time the system noticed you were already paying it back.
For the drivers who were earning before anyone was counting
A driver couple walking forward across a sunset crosswalk, both their cars and the city skyline in the frame
Where we're going

Get the card today.
Build everything else with us.

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