The authors

Zuko Leonard Rabotapi
Founder, My African Dream (Pty) Ltd
Founded My African Dream and leads it hands-on: strategy, engineering, operations and the brand, across every venture at once.
Zuko Leonard Rabotapi founded My African Dream (Pty) Ltd, an independent South African organisation that builds ventures meant to leave a lasting human legacy: in technology, health, education and publishing, philosophy and the creative arts.
He leads the company hands-on. He sets the strategy of a connected ecosystem of businesses sharing one sign-in, one shop and one command centre; he directs the engineering and DevOps behind every product, from the family tree to UNDERDOG, MAD's own AI desk; and he approves every change that reaches a live system.
He writes as Dibosto Dibosto, the pen name behind the dibosto dibosto series of books on the human condition for AI times, published by MAD-BOOKS.
- Strategy for the AI era
- Engineering and DevOps
- Product across the MAD ecosystem
- Writing, as Dibosto Dibosto
Articles
- A vision for Africa in the AI era: taking back control · 11 November 2026
- Business strategy in the AI era: an African agenda · 11 November 2026
- UNDERDOG: our own AI desk · 11 November 2026
- AI in every part of the operation · 10 November 2026
- Hands-on leadership and accelerated execution · 8 November 2026
- Valkey: one cache for every MAD app · 6 November 2026
- dibosto dibosto: six books on the human condition, for AI times · 5 November 2026
- One sign-in, one command centre · 4 November 2026
- One brand, many products: the Ndebele strip · 23 October 2026
- Build once, deploy to many: how MAD runs its code · 16 October 2026
- African data on African servers · 21 September 2026
- My African Dream: today's ideas, tomorrow's legacy · 7 September 2026
- Why we build an ecosystem, not an app · 12 August 2026
Dimpho Rabotapi
MAD-Executive Trainee Associate
Owner of Dimple's Joy and lead of Curio Earth and My Family Tree, writing about the legacy of humankind: families, their stories and the questions we leave the earth.
Dimpho Rabotapi owns Dimple's Joy, My African Dream's family fun hire, and leads Curio Earth and My Family Tree, the company's projects on the legacy of humankind: the questions people leave for future generations and the family histories they pass on. She is a MAD-Executive Trainee Associate at My African Dream (Pty) Ltd.
- Dimple's Joy
- Curio Earth
- My Family Tree
- Legacy of humankind
Articles
- Dimple's Joy: making the day about family · 25 October 2026
- My Family Tree: families as they really are · 2 November 2026
- The Family Book Library: a family's books, read live · 24 August 2026
- Curio Earth: a time capsule of real questions · 20 July 2026
Letlotlo Rabotapi
MAD-Executive Trainee Associate
Owner of TLOTLO and lead of ORC Clinic, writing about health and savings culture in Africa.
Letlotlo Rabotapi owns TLOTLO, the independent shopping app that shows a family its basket at the till and lets shoppers share where items are cheaper, and leads the Octavia Rabotapi Private Family Clinic online. Her focus is health and savings culture in Africa: families on limited incomes, stokvels and community savings, and technology that strengthens them. She is a MAD-Executive Trainee Associate at My African Dream (Pty) Ltd.
- TLOTLO
- ORC Clinic
- Stokvels and community savings
- Health and savings culture
Articles
- Stokvels, burial societies and every rand: Africa's savings culture meets technology · 14 September 2026
- TLOTLO: shoppers helping shoppers find the cheaper shelf · 26 August 2026
- ORC Clinic: affordable primary healthcare in De Deur, now online · 27 July 2026