IKAMVA Consulting was established in November 2000 and formally registered as a Close Corporation (CC) in February 2001. This corporation was established by young people who had participated in student leadership and other leadership positions in the areas of development with the sole objective of ensuring that the skills, expertise and experience acquired in the student leadership and other areas of involvement with an objective of participating and contributing in initiatives, projects and organisations involved in the betterment of our world.

Some of the founders of the company have been involved in freelance consulting before the establishment of the corporation. These engagements, together with the roles that some of the founders play in the organisations where they are/ have been involved/ employed, have enabled the corporation to have a broad base of skills, knowledge and interests that are reflected in the programmes of the corporation.

The corporation started off by focusing on youth development, with unemployed youth and student’s leadership being primary beneficiaries. The public sector was identified as one of the critical institutions that the corporation wanted to work with, to transform and strengthen this sector so as to unlock its potential for socio-economic development. We have already started working with both the local and provincial levels of this sector.

As the corporation develops, growing from strength to strength it is facing a number of challenges that it has committed itself to deal with: ensuring that the corporation reflects the demographics of our population in terms of gender and race, more especially at board level. Social responsibility is a programme the corporation is beginning to look at with some strides already being made in some areas as the corporation is working with assisting students interested in entrepreneurship by facilitating (at no cost to them) planning sessions and training. We hope to intensify this programme by donating bursaries for poor students at Fort Hare and supporting community development initiatives.