Welcome to Geekulcha

Home of the Geeks

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Connect

Geekulcha helps you connect with like-minded people for exploratory and collaborative opportunities

Learn

Gain knowledge from industry expertise to help you expand your dimension and enterprise your journey in ICT further.

Share

Empower others, especially the upcoming minds into the world of tech and be the light for inclusive growth.

Put Skills To Real Use

Enabling you get to put your skills to use in building innovative solutions.

About Geekulcha

Creating and Enabling Platforms for Innovation and Creativity

Geekulcha is where the young, skilled, creative and ambitious tech minds meet to connect with each other, share knowledge, collaborate on projects, network with industry leaders, obtain training to further improve and enhance their skills and to put that newly acquired skill to work. The platform has over 30 000 techies and innovators across Africa.


GEEKULCHA = Geek + Culture


Established 15 March 2013, our focus is on empowering young geeks through ICT skills development and training while giving them a taste of what awaits them in the big world through industry exposure.

WHAT GEEKULCHA DOES...

  • Map and drive growth for young tech talent
  • Host tech events for solution and skills development
  • Avail opportunities for one's growth
  • Leads and drive impact in marginalised communities
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Goals of Development

The following are 6 goals that Geekulcha seeks to achieve in developing a future proof Geek Kulcha.


Industry Exposure

An ultimate showcase of tech talent for work or collaborative opportuinities

An Inclusive Tech Culture

Leaving no one behind and, creating a conducive and enabling environment for all.

Capable Skills Force

Channeling skills development for the needs of civilization and a forecasted future.

Digital Emancitipation

Digital culture shift and achieving a state of active and safer digital consumers.

Sustainable Development

An accelerated business value, enterprising mankind and creating a better environment

More Producers Than Consumers

Africa must become a high-end creator of technologies for global consumption

Building an African Geek Kulcha

Whose Kulcha Is It?

Geekulcha has a range of programmes to enable growth and development of techies and marginalised groups across African through this mantra:

Starting Them Young: Building excitation and enlightenment onto young minds from high school. Geekulcha guards tomorrow's Geek Culture.

Tertiary - Student Growth: Academic excellence through tech and innovation leadership on campus. The GKSS initiative also builds Tech and Innovation leadership capacity.

Young Professionals: Development onto one's career and getting exposed to opportuinities. The programmes expose techies to technologies and industry leaders.

Marginalised Communities: People from low-income, the elderly, women & girls, people living with disabilities, rural/remote areas and historical marginalised.

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Enlightenment

From High School

The journey with Geekulcha starts from high school where Future Geekstars are groomed to be tech novelists and problem solvers of tomorrow.


Future Geekstars

Discovery

To Tertiary

Student Tech and Innovation Leadership capacity is what Geekulcha drives at tertiary level, preparing and empowering students into the wold of ICT.


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Grow

To The Job Market

Building smart industries and better living environment, putting skills to use while building human capacity in preparation for the world of work.


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  • All hands-on programmes
  • Industry exposure
  • Development
  • On the ground
  • Inclusivity

The Team

People behind Geekulcha


Mixo Ngoveni

Chief Executive Officer

Tiyani Nghonyama

Chief Operating Officer

Keitumetsi Tsotetsi

Chief Information Officer

Creston Campher

Executive Director: NCDev Ecosystem

Pebetsi Nick Thobejane

Training and Development Lead

Bongani Mhlanga

Programmes Support

Yolisa Dumezweni

Coordinator: Research and Development

Kevin Mokobane

Technical Coordinator

Bonolo Makobe

Coordinator: Projects and Programmes

IN NUMBERS

Geekulcha is Impact Driven

Since 2013, Geekulcha has implemented programmes for impact in South Africa and different parts of the continent - igniting the Geek Kulcha.

+33 400 Members

The Geekulcha community has stretched over the years, living up to a vibrant Geek Kulcha.

307 Hackathons

A vast experience in facilitating hackathons of different scales and needs, globally.

412 Student Leaders

Empowering the next captains of industries through Tech and Innovation leadership.

55 000+ Trained

Unlocking new prospects of humn development through skills training.

Latest Stories

What's happening in the Geek Kulcha

2025 A Year of Harnessing Intelligence for Sustainable Growth

6 months ago

NOMINATIONS OPEN: Top 15 Young Geeks Is Now Continental

6 months ago

Social Activism: Geekulcha Launches A Volunteer Network Programme

1 year ago
How do I join Geekulcha?

Although the organization is limited with resources, various ways are made to help local Geeks and industry be part of the Geekulcha platform including:

Community Member: Staying up to date with the shifts of the industry and opportuinities
Lead Geekulcha on Campus: Be part of the GKSS structures on campus
Provincial Champion: Represent Geekulcha at your own province
Mentor: Support local Geeks with their growth paths
Future GeekStar: School learners can become scholars through the VacWork programme

I want my child to learn how to code

We have the Future GeekStars initiative which is used as a platform to monitor the progression of learners from high school to tertiary level and then to the job market so that the transition is made easy.

The main focus is on skills development and fostering entrepreneurship and innovation that will make them be active leaders of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry.

School learners may be registered for the holiday VacWork programme.

I'm a student at tertiary institution, how does Geekulcha help me?

Geekulcha was primarily created for university students and still has a key focus on them hence the organization leverages on academic partnerships to create and enable more opportuinities for students.

Students at universities can take part of these programmes:

Student Leadership on campus (GKSS)
Hackathons and Mapathons
Student VacWork Programme

I have an app idea, can you assist?

In most cases, Geekulcha crew would be busy with other projects and as such, we would refer you to a developer in the community.

Does Geekulcha have any presence ko kasi or in rural areas? From time to time we host the programmes in the townships. Digital Literacy programmes or trainings are set for rural and remote areas.