About Karisani IT
An ICT consultancy built in South Africa, for the world.
We help organisations transform business requirements into technology solutions that actually move the needle. We've been doing this since 2014.
Company Overview
Who we are
Karisani IT is a Cape Town-headquartered ICT consultancy that delivers software development, business intelligence, cloud, AI, and skills development to enterprise and government clients.
We've grown deliberately, hiring senior practitioners and graduating talent from our own academy. Today we deliver across financial services, government, education, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, and high-growth SMEs.
We're proudly South African, and we believe the best technology consultancies the world has yet to see will be African.
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Our story
A timeline
2014
Founded in Cape Town
Karisani IT is founded with a vision to make South African ICT a global benchmark.
2017
First public-sector engagements
Karisani begins delivering enterprise digital platforms for South African government clients.
2019
BI & data practice launched
We open our dedicated data and analytics practice, growing it into a flagship offering.
2021
Skills academy launched
Our first cohort of unemployed youth graduates from our SETA-accredited tech academy.
2023
Cloud & AI practice
Karisani formalises cloud and AI as a standalone practice, partnering with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
2026
Pan-African ambitions
We expand engagements into Botswana, Namibia, and Kenya, anchored in our Cape Town home.
Mission
Help organisations transform requirements into outcomes.
We turn ambiguous business problems into working software and durable capability.
Vision
African ICT consulting that rivals the world's best.
We're building the kind of consultancy the next generation will be proud to join.
Promise
Senior teams. Real outcomes. Long partnerships.
We earn our keep on the KPIs that move your business, not the metrics that justify ours.
Our values
What we stand for
Outcome-driven
We measure ourselves by your business KPIs, not just delivery metrics.
Trustworthy
Security, ethics, and POPIA-grade governance in everything we ship.
Partnership
We invest in long-term relationships, not transactional projects.
Human-centred
We design with the people who use our software, not at them.
Bias for delivery
Working software in production beats a perfect plan on a slide.
Excellence
Senior teams, modern engineering, and uncompromising quality.
Leadership
The people behind the work
Senior practitioners who lead from the front.
Thabo Mokoena
Chief Executive Officer
20+ years building South African ICT consultancies. Ex-Big Four partner.
Nomsa Dlamini
Chief Technology Officer
Former principal engineer at a Tier-1 bank. Champions our engineering excellence.
Sipho Khumalo
Head of Consulting
Leads our strategy and advisory practice across financial services and government.
Ayesha Patel
Head of Data & AI
PhD in machine learning. Builds our AI practice and academic partnerships.
Lebo Maluleke
Head of People
Architect of our Skills Academy and graduate programme.
Jaco van der Merwe
Head of Cloud
Multi-cloud architect and FinOps practitioner. Former AWS solution architect.
Why Karisani
Why our clients stay
Senior delivery teams
No bait-and-switch. The people you meet in pitch are the people who ship.
South African + global
Local context, world-class engineering. We've built systems used by 4,800 schools and Tier-1 banks.
Skills + delivery flywheel
Our academy builds the next generation of talent, and many graduates join our delivery teams.
Outcome-based commercial models
We're happy to put fees at risk against measurable business outcomes.
Trusted with regulated industries
Banks, insurers, healthcare and government trust us with POPIA-grade workloads.
Long-term partnerships
Our average client tenure is over four years. Most of our growth is referrals.
Social impact
Built into how we operate
Karisani Academy
SETA-accredited tech bootcamps with a 78% placement rate.
Open-source contribution
We sponsor and contribute to projects our engineers depend on.
Community partnerships
We partner with schools and NGOs across the Cape Flats and Soweto.
Partners
Who we work with
Recognised by South African industry
Testimonials
What clients say
“Karisani gave us delivery confidence we hadn't had in years. They became part of the team.”
Group CIO · Tier-1 South African bank
“They built a learning platform that reaches every corner of the province, even on a 3G phone. Remarkable.”
Provincial HOD · Department of Education
“Their data practice retired 180 legacy reports and gave our exco a single source of truth. We sleep better.”
Group CFO · JSE-listed mining group
“Karisani's graduates are the best junior engineers we hire. The academy is a real differentiator.”
Head of Engineering · Fintech scale-up