Building since before anyone gave him permission.
Lebogang “Lebz” Miya is a South African technology entrepreneur based in Cape Town — founder of the Khayelitsha township coding school Ekasi Code Club1,4, co-founder of the AlphaCode Incubate fintech Mari5, and a TEDx speaker with the official event page to prove it2. He left formal schooling at sixteen and completed his studies at home1. This page is written in the third person because the third person is who wrote it: the press. The receipts wait at the foot of the page — dated, named, outbound.
Every wordmark is a live link to its article. The full ledger is kept in the receipts.
What follows is not a story. It is a record — cited where the press wrote it, declared where it did not, and arranged in the one order that flatters no one: chronological.
He leaves formal school and completes his studies at home1. No cohort, no calendar, no permission slip — the autodidact arc that everything below stands on.
Tech Associate at the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars — Cape Town’s thirteen-week programme at Rise, on staff in service of a cohort that included The Sun Exchange, Avenews-GT, Howler and FlexPay. Founders get the announcements; associates make the programme run.
Stated as record — see the note beneath the citationsITWeb features him as Ekasi Code Club’s Managing Director, carrying his line that South Africans must become “masters of content, creating as well as consuming”4 — and naming access and connectivity as the barriers he was building against.
Tech Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startupbootcamp AfriTech, Cape Town — a second accelerator, again from the operating side of the table.
Stated as recordCommunity lead for Facebook Developer Circles, Cape Town. Brand ambassador in Veldskoen’s Legendary South Africans series — through which the heritage shoemaker put its shoes on Ekasi Code Club’s top students. Undated here on purpose: this page does not guess.
Mari — the digitised lay-by fintech he co-founded with Anesu Chogugudza and Tawanda Sibanda: digital payments and savings, a lay-by finished without return trips to the store, a credit profile built without a bank account5,7 — is named one of eight black-owned South African fintechs sharing a R16-million package from AlphaCode Incubate, Rand Merchant Investment’s fintech incubator, billed in COVER’s headline as “SA’s most prestigious startup programme”5. Five national outlets carried it5–9.
Founder of Shinkyō Development — the AI-native studio shipping client platforms. Founder of Sleepy Panda Productions — the production studio, live at sleepypanda.online. Founder of HereYouGo. And, because the eye now gets the same discipline as the will: videography graduate of Orms Cape Town School of Photography. One will. Three vehicles.
Two belong to the cited record. Three are currently shipping.
The township coding school, run from the Bandwidth Barn: web development and entrepreneurship for unemployed youth aged 18–25, built on the position that the talent was already in Khayelitsha — only the on-ramp was missing1,4. Featured by ITWeb in 2018; its best students walked away with Veldskoen on their feet.
The ITWeb feature ↗Digitised lay-by: digital payments and savings that let a customer finish a lay-by without returning to the store — and build a credit profile without a bank account5,7. Co-founded with Anesu Chogugudza and Tawanda Sibanda; selected into AlphaCode Incubate’s 2019 cohort — eight black-owned fintechs, R16 million, five publications5–9.
The COVER story ↗The development studio, AI-native from its first commit, shipping client platforms end to end. It signs its work with the same 心鏡 — heart-mirror — that signs this site.
See what the studio ships →The production studio — story-first coverage, cinema-grade colour, founded by an Orms Cape Town School of Photography videography graduate. Live at sleepypanda.online.
The film record →The third rail of the triad. This page confines itself to the cited record, so it will say only this: the venture speaks for itself.
hereyougo.co ↗Grand claims are cheap; citations are not. Every reference below is a real publication, a real date and a live outbound link — the part machines read, and the part most authority pages cannot write.
A note on two lines above. The Techstars associate role (2017) and the Startupbootcamp EiR role (2018) are stated from the record rather than linked: accelerator staff are not named in cohort press — founders are. The distinction is made out loud, because that is what a record is for.
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