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About · founder-led

A studio that is still an extension of its founder.

Group 9 Technologies is Tlaitirang Sekgobela Rathete's practice, incorporated. One engineer's standards, applied by a small team, across every kind of software an organisation runs on.

Registry

Legal name
Group 9 Technologies (Pty) Ltd
Registered
30 June 2026
Type
Private company · Exempted Micro Enterprise
B-BBEE
Level 1 · 135% procurement recognition
Ownership
100% Black-owned · 100% Black youth-owned
Certificate
Certificate number available on request
Domain
gr9technologies.co.za

B-BBEE certificate and registration details available on request for vendor onboarding.

The story

Group 9 Technologies is the company behind the work of Tlaitirang Sekgobela Rathete — a South African engineer who builds across web, native iOS, cloud infrastructure and Power BI, and who started writing a spec before every build long before it was a company policy.

The studio was registered in June 2026 to put that way of working on a proper footing: a legal entity clients can contract with, a B-BBEE certificate procurement teams can file, and a team that can carry more than one project at a time. The first months went into shipping four production sites for a group of healthcare, engineering and logistics businesses — sites that are live today and linked from this one.

The range is deliberately wide. Most organisations we work with do not need a web agency, a cloud consultant, an IT company and a licensing reseller — they need one partner who can do the software work and be accountable for it. So the services list is long, and the answer to "do you do this?" is usually yes, and occasionally an honest referral.

Two things stay constant across every engagement: documentation you keep, and no handoff of the hard parts. If we build it, we can host it, secure it, license it, support it and explain it to whoever comes after us.

People

Drawn by, checked by.

TS

Founder · Lead engineer

Tlaitirang Sekgobela Rathete

Tlaitirang founded Group 9 Technologies to give South African organisations a software partner who can explain the brief, build the system and hand it over clearly. He works across web, native iOS, cloud and Power BI, and writes the spec before the code.

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BM

Head developer · AI & full-stack

Bubele Mabandla

Bubele leads day-to-day delivery across web and mobile builds, with range across C# / ASP.NET, React, Python automation and AI workflows.

C# / ASP.NETReactPythonMongoDBPrompt engineering

Standards

What every project gets.

  • 01

    Documentation-first.

    Every project ships with a brief, a technical spec and handover docs. Your next developer reads the system instead of guessing at it.

  • 02

    South African by default.

    POPIA, B-BBEE, PayFast, Section 18A and procurement paperwork are built in, not bolted on.

  • 03

    No-handoff engineering.

    From database schema to DNS, we own the full stack. We do not hand off the hard parts.

  • 04

    If it's software, ask.

    Web, apps, cloud, IT, licensing, data, AI. If the problem is software, we most likely do it — and if we don't, we'll say so and refer you.

Brief us

Tell us what you need built. We reply within one business day.

+27 78 893 9247