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Investing in people building a better South Africa.

There are incredible people across South Africa doing work that matters.

Building businesses. Protecting wildlife. Growing food. Creating jobs. Strengthening communities.

Mabilwana exists to help them.

Sometimes that might mean capital. Sometimes it's fundraising, partnerships, technology, connections or simply getting involved and helping make something happen.

We're starting small. One useful project at a time.

What we're looking for

We're looking for people and organisations doing meaningful work across South Africa. Particularly in:

Conservation · Agriculture · Employment · Sport · Outdoors · Technology

If you're building something useful and could use a hand, we'd like to hear about it.

What we can help with

Funding

Finding capital, sponsors and people willing to back worthwhile work.

Partnerships

Connecting good organisations, businesses and people who should know each other.

Building

Using product, technology, operations and commercial experience to help good ideas actually happen.

Getting involved

Sometimes the most useful thing is simply rolling up our sleeves and helping.

First project

We're looking for something worth doing.

Mabilwana is currently exploring its first impact project.

Our initial conversations are focused on conservation and the people protecting South Africa's natural environment.

We're speaking to organisations working on the ground to understand where a relatively small amount of funding or support could create a real, measurable difference.

Know something we should look at?

Talk to us

Our approach

Start small.

Do something useful.

Measure what happened.

Then do it again.