Leading Digital Inclusivity
Sebenza is an innovative platform that bridges the digital divide to enrich the lives of our users. We provide access to engaging and authentic products and services.
For the People. By the People.
At Sebenza, we’re building innovative new ways to enable people on the move, and the makeup of our company reflects the diverse perspectives of the people who use our technologies.
People First
We consider the impact of every choice on Sebenza in the context of the lives of the people who use our platform
People Always
Our content, products and services are designed to champion the user and enable high-value exchanges
Vision & Values
Our vision and values were created by core members of our management team. The ideas were molded around what we want to do and where we see ourselves going in the future.
We proudly display our values, missions and vision throughout our office for employees and clients to see every day. Representatives from each department were selected to participate in the creation of our company values and create a holistic set of values that would suit everyone.
We brainstormed, maneuvered post-its, created presentations, looked at inspiration and even had fun with creating Easter eggs that represented the business ideals with the whole company. After a lot of reflection and a few acronyms later, we created the Sebenza A.C.T.S. These were inspired by our core team as well as our leaders who have instilled their values in the rest of the company and those who lead by example.
Our Team
Director and Co-Founder
Calvin Le Mottée
Chief Technology Officer
Stuart Steedman
Head of Technical
Ian Stevens
Head of Operations
Oliver Parkinson
Finance Manager
Wren Naude
Director and Co-Founder
Wesley Dorning
Brand Manager
Robyn Nel
Our views
Find out what the people behind Sebenza think about our purpose, our role in improving the state of connectivity in South Africa and uplifting the people who use Sebenza
Mayi Tshwete
Public Sector Liaison and Sebenza Shareholder
"I think South Africa is faced with a number of structural issues, amongst those is the cost of data. Another structural issue is obviously public transport. Millions of commuters that are on the road every single day that are excluded from connectivity is a huge problem so to have Sebenza coming in and dealing with that directly is something that's vital for the South African economy. To have access to the internet, to have the opportunities to engage and to learn to have educational material and to have a platform that gives you access to that is very important.We are looking at a young generation of people that are very curious about the world and they want to learn beyond what the school hours confine them to and beyond what the textbook gives them. This platform will allow those people to constantly be learning and to constantly have access to educational material."
Ze Nxumalo
Taxi Industry Expert and Sebenza Shareholder
"Because of Sebenza's approach and their understanding of the taxi industry and the dynamics, where they are actually our partner and not just people who's platform you are using. We have come up with a way of saying to the driver you can also benefit from Sebenza Bucks depending on how much usage is on your taxi. If there's data and analytics that's readily available to these finance houses, for example: what the taxi does, how many trips it does, durability, affordability and how much money it can end up making for the taxi owner and driver. And eventually being able to repay back the financing loan.<div>Data analytics is extremely important and I think it's where the country is going and where the world is going, to understand your consumer, understand what they do and with the taxi industry picking up 18 million people a day and moving them. Then with data you can then study and see where the commuter goes, what they do, what they buy, what they are engaging with. It opens it up to a world of possibilities."
Our Brand. Our Culture.
It is our mission to ensure that our brand stays true to form and follows our Mission, Vision and Values.
We strive to include a little piece of ourselves in the work that we do for design, marketing, sales, development, operations, finance, promotions and more.
The heart of everything we at Sebenza is our people. Our ethos of 'Internet for the People" is used to describe multiple parts of our business: "our People are our most important asset", "for People on the move", "music for and by the People" etc.
No one is ever left behind and every single person in our business is highly valued. Our understanding of the People we work with and the People who use our products and services are the heart of the moving machine that is Sebenza.
