{"id":16139,"date":"2018-03-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/03\/04\/versus-socks-partners-with-qhubeka-r7144\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:08:21","slug":"versus-socks-partners-with-qhubeka-r7144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/versus-socks-partners-with-qhubeka-r7144\/","title":{"rendered":"Versus Socks partners with Qhubeka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Versus Socks and Qhubeka are excited to announce a new collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29804500-1519977961.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1168321\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1168321\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-29804500-1519977961.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-29804500-1519977961.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two companies have come to a license agreement that gives Versus Socks the opportunity to retail an exclusive Qhubeka sock to the public. 20% of the purchase price of these socks goes towards funding <a href=\"https:\/\/qhubeka.org\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qhubeka<\/a> Bicycles for people who earn them, improving their access to schools, clinics, and jobs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\nQhubeka is always excited to partner with businesses who support the work we do. We love the idea that people can support a growing South African business and help us to fund bicycles for our programmes at the same time. Plus, I think the Versus socks look great!<br \/>\n<cite>Lise Olivier, Marketing Manager at Qhubeka<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-75007800-1519978600.png\" data-fileid=\"1168322\" data-fileext=\"png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1168322\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-75007800-1519978600.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-75007800-1519978600.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\nWe love the Qhubeka Charity and the awesome work they do \u2013 literally changing people&#8217;s lives with bicycles. We are super happy to have the opportunity to contribute to the Qhubeka Charity and help to fund more bicycles for people in Qhubeka programmes. These bicycles will help people to travel faster and further, and to carry more.<br \/>\n<cite>Hanno Lategan and Jurgens Uys from Versus Socks<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-51772200-1519978843.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1168324\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1168324\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-51772200-1519978843.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-51772200-1519978843.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-12 gap-4\">\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-77168100-1519977927.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1168319\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1168319\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-77168100-1519977927.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-77168100-1519977927.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-span-6\">\n<a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-43194400-1519977946.jpg\" data-fileid=\"1168320\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"1168320\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-43194400-1519977946.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-43194400-1519977946.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The socks come in 2 colour variations, black or white, and retail for R130 per pair (with 20% of the purchase price going to the Qhubeka Charity).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\n<strong>You can grab your pair today at a <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versussocks.co.za\/stockists\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>stockist<\/strong><\/a><strong> near you, at the Cape Town Cycle Tour Expo or online at <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versussocks.co.za\/product-category\/cycling\/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.versussocks.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Versus Socks and Qhubeka are excited to announce a new collaboration. The two companies have come to a license agreement that gives Versus Socks the opportunity to retail an exclusive Qhubeka sock to the public. 20% of the purchase price of these socks goes towards funding Qhubeka Bicycles for people who earn them, improving their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[406,238,239],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-promotions","tag-qhubeka","tag-versus","tag-versus-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}