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OurJourney

Trace the path from Salatiso.com’s solo voice to Mlandeni Notemba Investments — an Ubuntu homecoming where personal mastery, family stewardship, and digital tools fuse into one ecosystem.

The evolution of this app mirrors Salatiso’s own story — from a single practitioner and author to a family collective that brings the work back home under the Mlandeni Notemba banner.

20+
Years of Professional Practice
8+
Books & Longform Works
3
Advocacy & Community Projects
9
Apps & Tools in Development

Ubuntu: The Foundation of Everything We Do

“I am because we are” - This ancient African philosophy guides every decision, every product, and every interaction in our ecosystem. Ubuntu teaches us that our humanity is bound up in the humanity of others.

Interconnectedness

Every solution connects and enhances others

Collective Prosperity

Individual success strengthens the whole

Purposeful Impact

Every action creates positive change

Our Timeline

Key milestones marking the shift from professional practice and publishing into a family-led ecosystem of apps, training, and shared legacy.

Public Health Foundations
2003 • Q1

Began serving as a Junior Environmental Health Practitioner in the Eastern Cape, grounding the work in community care, inspections, and Ubuntu-centred public health.

Key Achievements:

  • Delivered hygiene education programmes for rural communities
  • Built inspection and compliance routines that still inform today’s checklists
Industrial Safety Leadership
2004 – 2012

Led ventilation, occupational hygiene, and rail safety programmes across Anglo Platinum, SARCC Metrorail, and Liberty Group, honing crisis response and governance discipline.

Key Achievements:

  • Awarded “Best Trainee” at Anglo Platinum (2004)
  • Rolled out national SHE reforms for SARCC Metrorail
  • Implemented incident recovery systems for Liberty Group
Entrepreneurial Risk Practice
2012 – 2020

Established 5G Property Consultants and advised national brands on compliance, continuity, and built-environment risk, turning decades of practice into independent stewardship.

Key Achievements:

  • Served clients including Ster-Kinekor and Alexander Forbes
  • Integrated business continuity with family-first governance
  • Documented lessons that seeded future publications
Books, Advocacy & Flamea
2016 – 2023

Turned lived experience into public scholarship — publishing books, articles, and podcasts while launching Flamea to fight for equality before the law. LifeCV served as the proof vault for every milestone.

Key Achievements:

  • Released works like “Beyond the Grave” and “Goliath’s Reckoning”
  • Launched Flamea advocacy collective and podcast
  • Opened salatiso.com as a free knowledge hub
Prototype Year for the Ecosystem
2024 • Q3

Shifted from publishing to product, committing full-time to application builds. LifeCV, PigeeBack, Sazi Life Academy, and Homestead OS took shape inside modern Next.js stacks.

Key Achievements:

  • Designed LifeKey identity flows and LifeCV proof architecture
  • Prototyped PigeeBack guild training and Sazi Life Academy curricula
  • Mapped Homestead OS playbooks into household-ready software
Return Home as Mlandeni Notemba Investments
2025 • Q1

Rebuilt salatiso.com into MNI, bringing the individual journey back to the family, consolidating training, library, and intranet resources under one Ubuntu-aligned portal.

Key Achievements:

  • Unified family intranet, training academy, and library
  • Introduced Kids Zone and multi-generational missions
  • Set the stage for public app launches and partner pilots

Looking Forward

2025 is about hardening the prototypes, publishing transparent proof trails, and inviting partners into a family platform that honours both the individual story and the collective home.