Thabo Sithole
Founder & CEO
Ex-MTN, ex-FNB. 22 years building telco-grade platforms across Africa.
Our story
We build the digital plumbing for a capable state and the enterprises that serve it.
Founded in 2012 by engineers from telcos, banks and government, TSRegistry exists to solve a frustration we lived ourselves: world-class technology shouldn't have to be imported, and complex public-sector software shouldn't be a synonym for “late and over-budget.”
By the numbers
A team built for the long game, not the demo
We grew slowly and deliberately — adding senior people, refusing projects we couldn't do excellently, and reinvesting in our own platforms. Today we're a 90-person engineering company spanning Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria, with delivery partners in Nairobi and Lagos.
2012
Founded
Sandton, Johannesburg
92
Engineers, designers, PMs
9
National departments served
14
Live SaaS platforms
What we believe
Six principles, one practice
These aren't aspirational posters on the wall. They show up in our hiring, our reviews, our contracts and the work itself.
Service before software
Every product we build serves a citizen, an officer or an operator. We design with empathy for the realities of front-counter work, not just the dashboards above.
Quality is non-negotiable
We'd rather lose a tender than ship work we're not proud of. Code review, automated testing and security review are baseline, not premium add-ons.
Transfer, don't trap
Open standards, documented runbooks, training built into delivery. If you choose to move on, you take everything you need with you.
Local, but world-class
We hire South Africa's strongest engineers and benchmark our craft against the best in the world. Local pricing, global standards.
Tell the truth early
If a deadline slips or a design needs to change, we say so on day one — not the week before launch. Bad news travels fast through our org.
Build for accountability
Every transaction is logged and queryable. Audit-readiness isn't a feature — it's the substrate everything else sits on.
Leadership
Operators who've been on both sides of the contract
Our directors have led teams inside government, telcos and the big four banks before joining TSRegistry. They know what good looks like.
Aisha Mahomed
Chief Technology Officer
Distributed systems and cryptography. Former Discovery Health, AWS Cape Town.
Sibusiso Naidoo
Director, Public Sector
20 years in National Treasury and SITA. Steered our G-Cloud accreditation.
Lerato Mokoena
Head of Design
Service design for citizen-facing products. Royal College of Art alum.
We're hiring
Join a team that takes craft, citizens and code seriously.
We hire senior practitioners with a builder's mindset — and graduates from our annual cohort programme. Quarterly profit share, real ownership over your work, and sabbaticals every four years.
Work with us
Bring us a hard problem. We’ll bring the team.
From feasibility studies to multi-year programmes, TSRegistry builds long-term partnerships with the institutions that move South Africa forward.