Cabanga Africa Group is run by a board, regional editorial desks, and eight operating departments across South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
- Editors are assigned to a specific regional publication and market.
- Contributors are drawn from across the 28 countries of reach.
- Finance and administration covers all three regional offices.
- The group was founded and is led by Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu, MBA.
Specialists Across Every Service
Every Cabanga Africa Group engagement is handled by a consultant with focused expertise in that specific service area - not generalists, but specialists.
Leads the Cabanga Africa sales function - managing the pipeline, coaching agents, closing high-value engagements, and driving revenue growth across all service lines and markets.
Front-line business development professionals driving subscriber and advertiser growth across South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and wider African markets - converting prospects into long-term ecosystem partners.
Visual thinkers and brand architects shaping how Cabanga Africa Group presents to the world - leading design across publications, digital platforms, campaigns, and brand identities.
Engineers building and maintaining the Group’s publishing platforms - high-performance, SEO-ready magazine websites, subscription systems, and the publishing platforms behind the network.
Curate, commission, and publish business intelligence across the 12-magazine Cabanga Africa network - each assigned to a specific regional publication and market across the continent.
Maintain financial accuracy, operational compliance, and administrative precision across all three Cabanga Africa regional offices in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Journalists, analysts, and industry experts contributing business intelligence and thought leadership across Cabanga Africa's regional publications from across the continent.
Transform publishing data, campaign metrics, and market signals into structured intelligence - supporting decision-making across editorial and the broader Group ecosystem.
Trade & Operations
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Munya Chimba is a trade, operations, and finance leader with two decades of experience building and running enterprises that move goods, value, and capital across African borders. His career spans corporate financial control, large-scale retail expansion, cross-border logistics, and food production - a progression from rigorous financial discipline into hands-on operational command of multi-company groups.
He began in finance, rising through Sanlam Developing Markets (a member of the Sanlam Group) from Accounts Payable Clerk to Financial Controller, where he owned divisional budgeting, expense forecasting and variance analysis, general ledger management, reconciliations, and VAT and BEE reporting. That grounding in numbers, controls, and accountability still anchors how he leads.
Over eight years with Shingai Group he ran operations for SPSK, a supplier of core Zimbabwean products into the South African retail market, then co-built African Basket - growing it from a single Midrand store to sixteen stores across three provinces. He established a state-of-the-art mill producing more than twenty tonnes of mealie meal daily, and managed procurement across Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, the DRC, Nigeria, and Mozambique, alongside border clearing, freight forwarding, and SARS compliance.
In 2022 he founded SITT Group (SITT Logistics, SITT Properties, and Home Mad’ Retail), specialising in cross-border logistics and retail-operations consulting. As Non-Executive Chairman of Cabanga Africa Group, he brings that blend of financial rigour, operational scale, and continental trade experience to the Group’s governance and strategic direction.
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Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu is an Expansion Architect, technology builder, and business strategist with over 25 years of experience across the internet technology value chain - spanning digital media, web infrastructure, platform development, data analytics, and strategic business growth across Africa and international markets.
He operates with what he describes as true professional citizenship - a deliberate fusion of deep technology expertise and structured business acumen. Each discipline was built independently and then brought together in service of African enterprise growth. His MBA provides the strategic foundation; his 30 diplomas and 40+ certifications demonstrate the depth of his domain expertise.
His technology roots trace to the early African internet, with e-commerce built and scaled as far back as 2001. His professional footprint spans Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia. Through Evertol Associates and the broader Cabanga Africa ecosystem, he has built platforms and advisory frameworks that move African businesses from strategic thought to decisive action.
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Dr. John Alpha is a doctoral AI researcher and software engineer with more than two decades of experience spanning media, networks, software development, product engineering, and enterprise-scale delivery. His career has carried him from online editorial and network engineering through senior product and platform roles to the leading edge of applied artificial intelligence - across telecommunications, financial services, logistics, and e-hailing.
Much of his foundation is built on structure and delivery. As a SAFe Release Train Engineer and Certified Scrum Master, he has managed enterprise-scale agile programmes and facilitated cross-functional collaboration between product, design, analytics, and engineering teams at institutions such as Absa and Vodafone. That instinct for sound process, accountability, and clear governance - making ambitious work repeatable and trustworthy - is exactly what he carries into his role as Company Secretary.
As a researcher, John is driven by the conviction that technology should empower and collaborate with people. His work focuses on Explainable AI, Human-Machine Co-creativity, Sentiment Analysis, and Ethical AI - systems that are not only advanced, but transparent, interpretable, and aligned with human values. That same commitment to fairness and accountability informs how he approaches governance at Cabanga Africa Group.
Departments and What They Own
| Department | Function |
|---|---|
| Editors | Commission and publish across the twelve regional editions, one editor per market |
| Magazine contributors | Journalists and analysts drawn from the 28 countries of reach |
| Sales team leader | Runs the pipeline and coaches the agent network |
| Sales agents | Subscriber and advertiser development across the regional markets |
| Creative directors | Design across publications, digital platforms and brand identities |
| Full-stack developers | Build and maintain the publishing platforms and subscription systems |
| Finance and admin | Financial accuracy and compliance across all three regional offices |
| Data analysts | Turn publishing and audience data into structured intelligence |
People and Governance
Who founded Cabanga Africa Group?
Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu, MBA, founded the group in 2017 and leads it as Founder and Expansion Architect.
Who edits the magazines?
Each regional edition has its own editor, assigned to that publication and market. Contributors are drawn from across the 28 countries of reach.
How is the group governed?
Governance sits with a board including a non-executive chairman and a company secretary, supported by eight operating departments across three regional offices.
Do advertisers deal with editors?
No. Advertising is handled by the sales function and editorial by the editors. The two are kept separate, as set out in the editorial policy.
How To Reach The Right Person
- For anything commercial - advertising, contract publishing, subscriptions - write to info@cabanga.africa and it is routed to the nearest office.
- For anything editorial - a correction, a story, a right of reply - ask for the editor of the specific edition rather than the group.
- For governance matters, address the board through the group rather than through an individual director.
- For anything urgent, use the WhatsApp line for your country. South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe each have their own.
Published by Cabanga Africa Group. Reviewed by Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu, MBA, Founder and Expansion Architect. Last reviewed .