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Cabanga Africa Group is supported by experienced professionals with focused expertise across media, digital infrastructure, business strategy, and continental execution.

Our Consulting Team

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.

Sales Team Leader
Sales

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.

Sales Agents
Sales

Front-line business development professionals driving client acquisition across South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and wider African markets — converting prospects into long-term ecosystem partners.

Creative Directors
Creative

Visual thinkers and brand architects shaping how Cabanga Africa Group and its clients present to the world — leading design across publications, digital platforms, campaigns, and brand identities.

Full-Stack Developers
Development

Engineers building and maintaining all client and internal digital platforms — high-performance, SEO-ready websites, e-commerce systems, and custom digital solutions for African growth markets.

Digital Marketing Consultants
Digital Marketing

Design and execute omnichannel growth strategies — combining SEO, paid media, social management, content distribution, and analytics into measurable growth systems for clients across Africa.

Editors
Editorial

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.

Finance & Admin Consultants
Finance & Admin

Maintain financial accuracy, operational compliance, and administrative precision across all three Cabanga Africa regional offices in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.

Magazine Contributors
Editorial

Journalists, analysts, and industry experts contributing business intelligence and thought leadership across Cabanga Africa's regional publications from across the continent.

Data Analysts
Data & Intelligence

Transform publishing data, campaign metrics, and market signals into structured intelligence — supporting decision-making across editorial, client strategy, and the broader Group ecosystem.

Leadership & Governance
Cabanga Leaders
Non-Executive Chairman
Munya Chimba
Trade ArchitectOperations LeaderFinance Strategist
"Others see borders. He sees bridges — and builds them."
20
Years in Finance,
Trade & Operations
16
Retail Stores
Built
7
African Sourcing
Markets
20T+
Mealie Meal
Milled Daily
3
Group Companies
Led

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.

Education
BAcc — University of the Witwatersrand (pending results)
Matric Exemption — S.A. Vice Chancellors Association (2006)
3 A-Level passes (Accounting, Literature, Management of Business) — Kutama High School (2003)
Ventures & Leadership Roles
Founder — SITT Group (SITT Logistics, SITT Properties, Home Mad’ Retail)
Head of Operations — Shingai Group (African Basket, Shingai Milling, SPSK Enterprises)
Financial Controller — Sanlam Developing Markets Ltd (Sanlam Group)
Areas of Expertise
Cross-border trade & logistics · freight forwarding & customs clearing · SARS compliance · retail operations & store expansion · procurement & supplier negotiation · financial control, budgeting & variance analysis · milling & production management.
Founder & Lead Consultant
Oscar Manduku-Habeenzu
Expansion Architect Technology Builder Business Strategist
"Some build to be seen. He builds so others can be seen."
25+
Years in
Business
30+
Countries
Covered
R600M+
Client Opportunity
Facilitated
7
Brands
Built
66+
Certifications
& Diplomas

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.

Education
MBA
Ventures
Founder — Cabanga Africa Group (Pan-African Media & Digital Infrastructure)
Founder — Evertol Associates (Business Expansion Consultancy)
Co-Founder — The Prime Journal
Professional Diplomas — 32
Diploma in Financial Accounting & Planning
Diploma in Psychology
Diploma in Product Management
Diploma in Project Management (Agile)
Diploma in International Tourism & Travel Management
Diploma in Outcome-Based Education & Learning Technology
Diploma in Intellectual Property
Diploma in International Finance
Diploma in Brand Management
Diploma in Global Management
Diploma in Dairy, Food Process and Product Technology
Diploma in Strategic Performance Management
Diploma in Marketing Management
Diploma in E-Commerce Data Development
Advanced Diploma in Data Science (ML 6)
Diploma in Retail Management
Diploma in Supply Chain Management
Diploma in Cyber Security
Diploma in Operations Management
Diploma in Proptech & Project Management
Advanced Diploma in Mastering Elite Digital Marketing for Executives
Diploma in Journalism
Diploma in Media Studies
Diploma in Applied Psychology — Consumer Behaviour
Diploma in Maritime Logistics
Diploma in Building Construction Technology
Diploma in Manufacturing Strategy
Diploma in Manufacturing Business — Air Conditioning
Diploma in Hospitality & Tourism Management
Diploma in Early Food Process & Product Technology
Advanced Diploma in Fundamentals of Manufacturing Finance
Diploma in Strategic Business Analysis
Google & LinkedIn Professional Certifications
Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP)
Certified Data Analytics Professional (CDAP)
Digital Marketing & E-Commerce Professional
Certified Digital Forensics in Financial Investigation
Advanced Diploma in E-Commerce Data Development
Recognition & Leadership
100 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs Under 40 — listed multiple times, 2012–2015
Member, Advertising & Marketing Club of Harare, 2012–2015
Director & Company Secretary
Dr. John Alpha
AI ResearcherSoftware EngineerGovernance Lead
"He builds the systems people can trust — in code and in the boardroom."
20+
Years in Engineering,
Delivery & AI
5
Academic
Degrees
4
Sectors
Served
2
Enterprise
Clients
CSM·CSPO
Scrum
Certified

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.

Education & Certifications
PhD, Artificial Intelligence
MSc, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science — ZCAS University
MSc, Technology Management & Research — Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
BASc, Computer Science — National University of Science and Technology
BA, Communication & Media Studies — Zimbabwe Open University
Full-Stack Software Development — Microverse
CSM · CSPO · JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures
Areas of Focus
Explainable AI (XAI) & model interpretability (SHAP, LIME, Grad-CAM) · Ethical AI frameworks & governance · machine learning & deep learning (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) · natural language processing · privacy-preserving AI (federated learning, differential privacy) · Python, AWS & cloud-native delivery.