Thabo A. Molefe is an independent consultant, business improvement professional and Author with a deep affinity for history, art and culture. His consulting and business improvement work spans more than a decade and a half in the financial services, local government, petrochemical, logistics, and mining sectors of South Africa. A certified lean six sigma master black belt and trained facilitator, Thabo also holds academic qualifications in business and technology from UNISA, Wits and Pretoria universities.

Thabo is Founder and Principal Consultant at Intrepid Ideas, a business improvement and strategy implementation consultancy. The author of one book, his first published work – Native Boy: Confessions of a Maplazini in the City – is a memoir reflecting on his life before and after 1994’s transition. The book is the result of him pondering the relatively short distance travelled by both South Africa and South Africans down the path to economic and social transformation.

As of October 2019, Thabo’s interest in history, art and culture has led to him beginning work on the Zazi Project. Zulu for ‘Know Yourself’, Zazi is an attempt to use big data and graph technology to develop the world’s first genealogy platform based on South African Oral Histories. This work therefore includes retracing, consolidation and visualising family trees based on Sesotho and Zulu ancestral praise names and surnames.