The skills shortage everyone complains about? We’ve been fixing it since 2019.
More than 300 young South Africans — most previously unemployed — trained toward careers in cybersecurity. Not as charity. As strategy.
Why an academy exists inside a security firm
Every security company in the country fights over the same small pool of experienced people. We decided early to take a different route: find talented young South Africans the industry had overlooked, and build them — on our methods, in our environment, to our standard.
It started before Madibe did. Our founder has been training people since his data warehousing days, on a simple conviction: aptitude is everywhere; opportunity is not.
What it means for our clients
Bench depth, not key-person risk. Our analyst capability grows from within, so your service does not hinge on one hire staying.
Consistency of method. The person watching your network was trained on the same playbooks the senior team wrote — not imported habits from somewhere else.
A partner with a stake in the country. Working with Madibe grows South African cyber capability. For many of our clients, that alignment matters — in their values and in their transformation commitments.
Where graduates go
Some join Madibe’s own monitoring and engineering teams. Others go on to security roles across the industry — which we count as a win. The point was never to hoard talent. It was to make more of it.
Interested in the academy?
Whether you are a young South African looking for a way in, an organisation that wants its security spend to build something, or a partner who wants to fund a cohort — talk to us.
Talk to us