Shoppers will now be the final arbiter when a product chosen as the best invention in a reality TV show hits the shelves.
Klerksdorp’s Christo Rossouw was named the winner of the Hangman show on Sunday night‚ earning R1-million in prize money.
Rossouw also has a distribution deal with Fever Tree‚ who will be testing his products in the market in three big supermarket chains.
The 35-year-old impressed the judges and viewers with his innovative mosquito repellent lamp to beat off the remaining two finalists - Bonex Mwakikunga with his diabetes breathalyser and Claire Reid‚ inventor of Reel Gardening‚ a pre-fertilised‚ pre-spaced colour-coded seed tape.
An elated Rossouw said: “One of the biggest issues in the world that poor people face is malaria. Mosquito-borne diseases are responsible for close to a million deaths annually‚ infecting around a billion people every year. I was looking to design a product that would be more effective and more affordable than products already on the market."
See the top five finalists here.
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