Building Capabilities Through Impact Investments.

Inkanyezi Development Solutions is a Development Firm driven to capture and improve the authentic texture and shape of individual lives in society’s neglected intersects. Our communities are served by a passionate team with over 23 years combined experience implementing development solutions across the Renewable Energy, Mining, Banking Sectors, Trusts and Multilateral Organisations.

Simply put, we are focused on concrete human lives and the way they unfold and as such, we are a development firm anchored by the Capabilities Approach. Meaning, we believe in measuring development by what people are empowered to do as a result of interventions or nurtured investments. Putting the spotlight on what genuine opportunities and quality of life people have access to and the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty that exist. Which simultaneously shines a light on the corrective contextual steps that need to be taken at the level of each community.

Ashleigh Sibanda

Founder and Managing Director

Ashleigh Sibanda has been a Development Professional for a decade, with the bulk of her experience spent serving Renewable Energy Communities and the rest of it split between the Mining and the Banking Sector. Across organisations such as the United Nations, Sibanye Gold, FNB and Anglo American. She has always been incredibly passionate about the human psyche and restoring the dignity of people of colour and being a Development Professional perfectly married these two passions for her, and this in turn, is how Inkanyezi Development Solutions was birthed.

With a Masters background in Political and Development Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand, with a specific focus on how to authentically empower our underserved communities and breed resilience and diversify the economic ecosystem in each community, enabling them to better withstand local and global economic shocks. She has also been responsible for leading the nationwide FNB Social Entrepreneurship Impact Lab (SEIL) and the implementation of Socioeconomic and Enterprise Development programmes in Marikana, Touwsriver and Victoria West. In addition to this, compiling Community Development Plans in communities like Marikana (North West), the Wild Coast (Eastern Cape) and Dipaleseng (Mpumalanga) which informed the development trajectory for each community.