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Biography
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi is a South African entrepreneur, A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and founder and CEO of Avatar Agency one of South Africa's largest integrated agencies and Medium Advertising Agency of the Year 2016. Zibusiso is a Trustee of the National Economic and Education Trust (NEET), which has provided over 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged ICT students. He is also founder of David’s League, a mentorship programme designed to uplift and empower young entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds in their business pursuits.
Entrepreneurship
Zibusiso founded Csonke Holdings in 2000 with R2000.00 capital at 17 years old. In 2007 he led a merger of his web development business and Csonke Holdings subsidiary Csonke.com with KRAZYBOYZ to form KRAZYBOYZ digital, a digital marketing agency based in Sandton and Cape Town. He started avatar agency in 2012 with Veli Ngubane and now employs 60 people in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Accolades
- BBQ Young Business Achiever in 2007
- 100 Young South Africans June 2007
- Top ICT Individual in Africa and Top ICT Young Entrepreneur in Africa, both in 2008
- Men's Health Best Man Editor's Choice Award in 2009
- 200 Young South Africans
- IT Personality finalist for 2009 and 2010
- World Economic Forum Young Global leader 2011
- Finalist for Best Individual Contribution to SA Digital Marketing, 2011.
- Named Top 25 media game changer, 2012 and Media Rockstar 2013.
- Financial Mail Adfocus New Broom Award, 2014
- Top 40 under 40s in The Media, 2015 .