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In a trip that has never been done before on the continent of Africa, local social media content creator and influencer Ah Mozisi Ubered from Johannesburg to Cape Town.

You can’t even imagine how much it costs. Or maybe you can. Take your guesses now because the dude only reveals that juicy bit of information later.

The Saffa TikTokker filmed the epic 1 400 kilometre Uber ride taken in March from the City of Gold to the Mother City and posted it to YouTube, where it received a decent amount of head-shaking-filled views.

Calling it the ‘craziest thing’ he’s ever done, Mozisi  (real name Tsoanelo Moyo) claims that the trip has never been done before using the e-hailing platform and is the longest Uber trip ever taken in Africa, according to 947:

“A trip between Port Elizabeth and East London in the Eastern Cape is the longest Uber ride ever in South Africa…” said Ah Mozisi.

“I know what you guys are thinking… why am I doing this? I don’t know!”

He’s obviously trying to emulate the biggest YouTuber in the world, MrBeast who holds the record for the longest Uber ride, which took him across the US from North Carolina to Los Angeles in California. The 3630 km journey took 35 hours, so yes, he wins.

While on the long-haul journey with his two pals, ‘Moses’, as he’s known to his followers, said the Uber app notified him that the “driving limit has been reached” when getting close to CT. But the driver continued and the okes finally reached their destination.

Take a look:

Mozisi has risen above the algorithm to become one of the more popular South African social media content creators over the last few years, boasting 3,3 million followers on TikTok.

@tsoanieskitsGo watch the full video on YouTube 😂 We made History! Link on my Bio♬ original sound – Ah Mozisi

Time for the cost reveal. A screen grab from Moses’ Uber app showed that the trip cost a lekker R8 365.

This all happened, shame, just as Uber revealed plans to become a “travel super app” offering Uber flight bookings for both domestic and international flights.

Uber has just introduced this booking service for national and international rail and coach journeys in the UK only, using the country as a testbed for its plans to do the same in the US and elsewhere. The Financial Times reports:

Andrew Brem, Uber’s UK general manager, told the Financial Times the launch of commercial flight bookings was “the latest and most ambitious step” in the company’s strategy to expand its core ride-booking business into a wider travel booking platform […]

Uber has partnered with travel booking company Hopper to sell flights, and will take a small commission from each sale. It also has the option of adding a booking fee on top in the future.

This suggests long-term ambitions along the lines of the Chinese app WeChat, which started as a messaging app and turned into, well, everything.

What a time to be alive.

[source:947]