Lubabalo Dyantyi, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Deviare

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Build capability and capacity
for Africa’s digital transformation

Deviare is a technology-enabled digital talent platform and IT services group, founded in 2017 in Johannesburg.

Lubabalo Dyantyi
Co-Founder and Executive Director
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What we believe

Future Made Here

Africa’s demographic dividend can become a durable source of economic productivity. That requires trusted pathways from potential to competence, from competence to work, and from delivery experience to stronger future capability.

Promise	What it means in practice
Capability before complexity	Start with the people, skills and capacity needed to create value from technology.
Access with standards	Open credible pathways while protecting quality.
Evidence over claims	Establish trust through assessment, credentials and delivery performance.
One Deviare experience	Own the outcome across teams, partners and platforms.
Local capability, global relevance	Build in South Africa to serve Africa and the world.

Our founders

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Lubabalo Dyantyi

Before co-founding Deviare, spent sixteen years at Dimension Data, rising to Director for Middle East and Africa. BCom Economics and a certified coach.

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Co-Founder and Executive Director

Baxolile Mabinya

Technologist and visionary. MCom (Computer Science), MBA (GIBS), Senior Executive Program (Harvard) and Management Development Programme (USB).

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Brad Smith of Microsoft with Deviare co-founders at a mobile computer lab

Partnership in action

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, meeting Deviare’s co-founders outside one of our mobile computer labs.

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Partner ecosystem

Global technology. Local capability. Accountable delivery.

Partners extend our curriculum, certifications, technology and routes to market. We add local programme design, talent operations and accountable delivery, so clients get one Deviare experience.