Every year, Africa Tech Festival brings together the people building Africa's digital future, on stages, in exhibition halls, and in the conversations that happen in between. Sometimes those conversations change a life. That's exactly what happened to Mpumelelo Pinky Mbhamali.

Pinky is a Systems Administrator at Edunova_SA , an AWS Community Builder, and the founder of Sip And Cloud Tech, a community she built to bring cloud computing, AI, cybersecurity, and digital inclusion to communities across South Africa. She first came to Africa Tech Festival in 2024, and it was her second visit to the festival, this time as part of the CAPACITI programme through UVU Africa, that changed the course of her career.

We asked Pinky to share her story, in her own words.