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Company
Ownership and Executive Team
Sasuka is a 100% black owned IT Company
that adheres strictly to the SMME guidelines.
Sasuka has four directors, of which
three are in the management team. A
stake of the company is allocated to
some of the operational staff members
that qualify according to the terms
and conditions of the employee company-stake
allocation.
GEORGE NEGOTA – Chairman
Holds B Iuris, LLB degrees and a Diploma
in Tax Law from Unisa, Higher Diplomas
in Company Law and Tax Law from Wits,
a BA (Hons) and Masters in Commerce
from RAU.
He is the Director of numerous companies
and was active in the Taxi Industry
where he served as a mediator, chairperson
of the Taxi National Transport Policy
Forum and contributed to the drafting
of the White Paper on National Transport.
Presently he is serving as a Director
of the Road Accident Fund, chairperson
of the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency,
(an agency of the National Department
of Transport) and he is a member of
the Phalaborwa Mining board.
He is a practising attorney and gained
international legal experience whilst
working for the legal Department of
Mobil Oil in the United States. Negota
attended courses on privatisation in
Nigeria and Britain. At SBDC he worked
as a senior consultant. He participated
in the conceptualization of KHULA (a
government initiated institution founded
to wholesale finance to SMMEs) and also
drafted its founding documents. He was
also involved in the privatisation of
Iscor and National Sorghum Breweries
(NSB) whilst working for Edward Nathan
& Friedland attorneys.
He has conducted the following commission
of enquiries: Mismanagement in the Bus
Industry in the North West Province,
Alleged mismanagement of private donor
funds by the Gauteng Premier and mismanagement
at the University of Venda. He investigated
the causes of violence in the Taxi Industry
in KwaZulu-Natal for the Provincial
department of Transport. He also led
a team that restructured Eskom and also
conducted a study on the rationalisation
of state assets in Mpumalanga. Presently,
he involved in the research study in
preparation for the Gauteng Express
train, a project which has been initiated
by the Gauteng province as one of the
SDI’s projects.
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Samuel Tsitsi Motsumi - Managing
Director
Sam has been in the IT Industry for
the past 22 years. His computer career
started in 1981 with Anglo American
Life, which later became known as Southern
Life. Working his way up the ranks,
from being a Mainframe Operator, Sam
is now a to Senior Systems Analyst.
He has acquired expertise in Life Insurance
Systems especially in the Benefits Payment
Section after he rewrote the entire
Benefits Payment System with 4GL.
In 1985 Sam was instrumental in starting
Zakheni Computing, the first black programming
training school to produce top COBOL
programmers in South Africa.
In 1991 he joined ACNielsen as a Project
Leader where he gained extensive exposure
in Marketing Information Systems in
the Media, Retail, MFCG and Customer
Sector as Technical Manager for ACNielsen
SA, Cyprus, Italy, Hungary, US and ACNielsen-Media
Monitor in Berkshire, England. Sam was
instrumental in making sure the systems
he has developed with his team get implemented
overseas.
He has been involved as a director
in the running of the Netnovation Group
before forming Sasuka. Sam is a founder
member of Sasuka Technologies.
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Riedwaan Benefeld - Training
Riedwaan has been in the IT Industry
for the past 21 years. During this time
he has built-up an in depth understanding
of the various facets of the IT industry,
ranging from the development and implementation
of software solutions, to designing
and providing technical training courses.
Riedwaan qualified as an entry-level
COBOL programmer in 1987 through Zakheni
Computing after working for Southern
Life as a computer operator for five
years. He joined IGI insurance immediately
after qualifying where he worked as
a trainee programmer.
In 1989 Riedwaan joined Dexdata where
he was employed for ten years. He went
from programmer to Project Manager.
During this period he gained extensive
experience in the short term insurance
industry and also rewrote Prestasi’s
Brokers total Underwriting System.
He has been involved as a director
in the running of the Netnovation Group
before forming Sasuka.
Riedwaan is a founding member of Sasuka
and currently drives Sasuka’s
training initiative.
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Tshitego Moses Segaetsho - Data Warehousing and Data Quality.
Tshitego started his career with Standard Bank's asset finance division (Stannic) in 1987 in the former Bophuthatswana homeland. He spent 8 years with Standard Bank before leaving in 1995 to pursuer a career in IT.
During his tenure at Standard Bank, he was awarded scholarship to study for a Bcom degree majoring in Accounting and Information Systems at North West University . While at university, he worked as an assistant to lecturers in the department of Information Systems, amongst others supervising students doing practical work in computer laboratories.
Peter Tshabalala– Sales and Marketing
Peter has been in the Insurance Industry for the past 11 years. He started his career in 1995 with Alexander Forbes. He worked himself up through the ranks to management. He has acquired expertise in the Benefits administrations systems, Mineworkers Negotiated industry funds.
Peter has worked for companies like, Southern Life (currently Momentum), Sanlam, Liberty and Old Mutual. Some of the clients he has worked with include Government departments, Parastatals like Eskom, Transnet and Arivia.kom. He has also done work in the municipality industry getting involved in various projects.
Peter is a Director at Umnotho Holdings, a marketing and strategy consulting company. He has been involved in a number of BEE deals structuring and other business ventures.
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