InterTown Transport Competitors

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Intercape is the largest intercity passenger transport service operating in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Johan Ferreira Sr. was born in 1934. After 18 years as a schoolteacher in Namibia, he decided in 1971 to start a passenger bus company with one bus only, and called the business “Central Bus Service”. Over a period of 5 years, the company expanded its business to 5 busses and also changed its name to “Windhoek Bus Service”. In 1979, Mr Ferreira started a second passenger bus company in Cape Town, South Africa and called it “Intercape”. At first, the company operated a shuttle service between the Cape Town airport and the City Centre only. In 1986, Intercape applied for and obtained intercity permits for the transport of passengers between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. It was also in this year that Johann Ferreira Jr, joined his father at Intercape. In 2008, Johann Ferreira Jr bought 100% of the shares of Intercape from the Ferreira family trust and took over the management of the company. Today, Johann, together with a handpicked team of highly skilled and dedicated professionals make it their mission to provide a safe, dependable and affordable road transport service to passengers throughout Southern Africa.

Mango is a South African low-cost airline that operates on all major domestic routes, flying between Johannesburg and Cape Town, Johannesburg and George, Bloemfontein and Cape Town, Durban and Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban as well as between secondary Gauteng airport Lanseria and Cape Town and Lanseria and Durban. Mango also launched its service between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. Mango's first flight departed on 15 November 2006, its launch sale being the largest e-commerce event in South African history at the time. Known for its innovative approach to aviation, Mango became the first African airline to offer Wi-Fi access on board with the G-Connect In-Flight Wi-Fi service. It was also the first South African airline to retail flights through grocer Shoprite / Checkers and remains the only airline in the world to accept store charge cards as payment online and through its call centre (Edgars / Jet / CNA / Prato and Temptations).