A company has a responsibility to build the community it trades in.
We take that literally. Every platform on this site exists because somebody in this region was locked out of something they should have had access to, and the commercial case and the community case turned out to be the same case. That is the agenda. NDARAMBA, which is free to everyone and always will be, is where it goes furthest.
In short
- Every Cabanga platform exists because a group of people was locked out of a market that should have been open to them.
- MUSIKA lets a small trader buy across a border on one landed price; OLORATO checks the builder before the biggest payment of a lifetime.
- NDARAMBA is one hundred percent free and takes no money from anyone, including lawyers. It is the third road.
- Next: community mentorship, a startup accelerator, and free cohorts of the existing digital training.
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Every platform here is solving a community problem.
Not as a side effect and not as a story told afterwards. The reason each of these was built is that a group of people were being shut out of a market that should have been open to them.
SETSEBI - practitioners who can be found
Skilled trainers in smaller markets are invisible to the organisations that need them, so budgets fly to consultants in bigger cities. A register that names the practitioner and the market keeps that spend and that skills transfer in the country it came from.
MUSIKA - buying without a middleman's mark-up
Small businesses buying across borders pay for their own lack of information, in mark-ups, in bad freight, and in goods that never arrive. One landed price from a verified supplier is the difference between a small trader competing and a small trader closing.
MOELETSI - an adviser you did not have to guess at
A small company needing books kept, a company registered or a trademark protected has usually had one route: ask around and hope. Being handed a firm whose registration and licence have already been checked removes the part of the transaction where people get hurt.
OLORATO - the biggest payment of a lifetime
Building a home is the largest single payment most families ever make, and it is routinely handed to a stranger on the strength of a phone number and a photograph of somebody else’s house. A builder who has been checked before the name is given out changes what that payment risks.
NDARAMBA is one hundred percent free, and it is the third road.
The rest of what we build is a business that happens to do good. NDARAMBA is not a business at all. Nobody is charged: not the person reporting, not the lawyer, not anyone. It is the clearest thing we do for the community and it is why it sits at the centre of this page.
Corruption and extortion are the same act.
A clerk who will not process your file until you pay. An officer who will drop the matter for a fee. A supplier told the tender is available at a price. We call one corruption and the other extortion, but the person on the receiving end experiences one thing: a demand backed by a threat.
And they are handed two options. Pay, or take the consequences. That is the trap, and it holds because refusing costs something and there is nobody standing next to you when it does.
There is a third road.
NDARAMBA is that third option. It does not ask you to become an investigator, confront anybody, gather proof or pay a demand to record it. You say what happened, and an admitted lawyer is on the other end of the line within one business day.
The name means I refuse. The supply side is a panel of admitted practitioners across the region, and the introduction is made by a person, the same way every introduction we make works.
Go to NDARAMBARefusing corruption means refusing to become it.
These are not features NDARAMBA has not got to yet. They are things it will not do, and the reason each one is off the table.
It takes no money, from anyone
Nothing from the person reporting and nothing from the lawyer. No referral fee, no fee split, no cut of whatever the matter becomes. Charging a person to refuse a bribe would be its own kind of demand.
It does not publish accusations
When somebody names a person or an organisation, that goes only to the lawyer they are connected to. It is never published and there is no blacklist. The public register carries the pattern, never the person.
It does not decide who is guilty
No legal advice, no promised outcome, no verdict. That is the work of lawyers, investigators and courts, and it is not improved by an app having an opinion about it.
It does not pretend to be the police
A submission is not an official police report, and the site says so on its face. Implying a line to law enforcement that does not exist would put people in more danger, not less.
This is where we start, not the whole of it.
NDARAMBA is the first thing we have put out that is free by design. It is not the last, and the work below is already in the plan rather than on a wish list.
Community mentorship
The founder has mentored students for about ten years, averaging students from around ten universities a year across the countries the group reaches. We are turning that from one person's habit into something the company runs properly.
A startup accelerator
We know how to take a business idea from a page to a working platform, because we have done it eight times. Handing that to founders in this region who cannot buy it is the most useful thing we own.
Skills, at no cost
Structured digital training already exists inside the group. Opening cohorts of it to people who could never fund it is a short step from where the group already stands.
Because it is the same build we do anyway.
We are not a foundation and we are not claiming to be one. What we have is the ability to build a register with a person behind it, and pointing that at a community problem costs us a build rather than a budget line.
We would rather say that plainly than dress it up. A company that can build the thing and does not has made a choice. We made the other one.
It is built in Botswana and framed on Botswana institutions first, because that is where we are and because being specific is more useful than being regional and vague.
If you are an admitted practitioner and want to sit on the NDARAMBA panel, the platform takes registrations directly. If you run an organisation working on any of this and think we have got something wrong, we would rather hear it than not.
Who each platform reaches, and what it costs them.
The community argument is only worth making if the numbers behind it are stated plainly. This is who each platform is for and what they pay to use it.
| Platform | Who it reaches | What was blocking them | Cost to them |
|---|---|---|---|
| SETSEBI | Training practitioners in smaller markets | Invisible to the organisations that needed them | Free to post |
| MUSIKA | Small businesses buying across borders | Paying for their own lack of information | Free to post and be verified |
| MOELETSI | Businesses without a professional adviser they can trust | Finding a firm meant asking around and hoping | Free to request |
| OLORATO | Families and small companies building in Botswana | The largest payment of a lifetime, made to a stranger | Free to enquire |
| NDARAMBA | Anyone facing a demand backed by a threat | Only two roads: pay, or take the consequences | Nothing, from anyone, ever |
- You choose what happenedExtortion or corruption. Two buttons, nothing else to work out.
- You describe it in your own wordsWhat was demanded, and how. You are not building a legal case.
- You name who is involved, privatelyThis is the one thing sealed. It goes to your lawyer and is never published.
- You see exactly what will be sharedBefore anything moves.
- You get a referenceSomething structured to hold on to, instead of a story reconstructed from memory later.
- A person connects you to a lawyerAn admitted practitioner, on WhatsApp, within one business day. From there the lawyer advises and acts.
If somebody is demanding money from you, you have a third option.
NDARAMBA is free, in confidence, and connects you to a lawyer rather than to a database. If you are a legal practitioner, the panel is open to admitted practitioners across the region.
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