Siboniso Thwala

AUTHOR PROFILE

AUTHOR, ANALYST, BANKER, ENTREPRENEUR AND COMMUNITY

DEVELOPER

WRITING

He's writing is so far is focused on business management,

entrepreneurship solutions and financial literacy and it's inspired by

the idea of living a legacy behind.

Quotes about writing

"The best way to avoid making mistakes is to learn from the past, for

the best way to live in the present time with peace is to have the

knowledge of how and while living in the present and preparing for

the future one must be opened to learn new things from other

people" - Siboniso Thwala

Publications

Automotive Excellence - Exploring the intuitive art of business

repetitive excellence

Published in the year 2016.

It's a book dedicated for those interested in business management,

entrepreneurship and those who want to improving in sales.

2020 Hangover - Financial Remedy By a Banking Analyst

Financial Literacy self help book. Published in the year 2020 .

FINANCE, ANALYTICS AND BANKING CAREER

He began his career as a debt collector at MBD Attorneys

(MunnikBasson Dagama) in 2005 while enrolled for his National

Diploma in Banking at UNISA. He worked approximately for 2 years

at MBD Attorneys.

Then moved on in 2007 and became manager for a debts collections

at the age of 22 years for one of the major banks in South Africa.

In 2010 he gained interest in the analytics world and he took up on a

role of a Business Intelligence Analyst. In 2014 he grew more interest

in analytics and continued the passion by expanding his experience

in analytics but with a change in focus by specializing as Product,

Pricing and Profitability Analyst. In the year 2014 he still remained

in the Analytics world but took up an opportunity as a Quantitative

Analyst. Currently he still maintains his role of a Quantitative Analyst

in the banking sector.

His daily motivation for thriving in the Finance, Analytics and

Banking career.

"Each day is a brand new day with a brand new opportunity to

improve customers experience, banking solutions and the business

of banking and finance as whole. I'm still chasing that day which

brings the opportunity where I innovate and be quoted in the

industry as that man who brought the most profits to the industry

but also at the same time be quoted as a man who brought the most

comfortable financial journey for the bank customers. "

ENTREPRRENEURSHIP

As a teenager he has been interested in the business world as

mentioned in his book "AUTOMOTIVE EXCELLENCE", since the high

school days where he started as a street vendor and selling goods in

the trains and soccer stadiums.

Business initiatives

2012 - ST Desktops and Laptops

He ran a computer fix and sales business. Where he bought broken

computers, fixed them and sold them mostly to his target market

which was university students who wanted affordable computers.

The skill of fixing computers he got it from a friend who used to do it

on a full time bases for a living. The friend which he met while he was

in grade 10, in high school. With the spread of ipads and tablets the

business got slowed down in profits because he didn't have the skill

to fix tablets and ipads. He decided to stop in 2014.

2014 - SiboCEE

Sibo Cooking and Events Enterprise

He bought his first mobile kitchen, started to do catering at events

and hiring out cooking equipment for events, such as Funerals,

weddings, parties, weddings and sports events. Later in 2015 he

expanded by having a fast food turk shop. As he was thriving to

expand, he started to a partnership with someone who was helping

him with building mobile kitchens but the partnership didn't go well

and he ended up being demotivated but still wanted to give it another try as quoted on his interview with the Mail and Guardian news

paper.

2018 CoolEvent

In 2018 he decided to grow in the events business, though the

SiboCEE business came with challenges, he decided to stick to events

and introduce another branch to it by adding entertainment and

hiring out sound systems.

References.

He was referenced in the book of his fellow writers and friend

Tiisetso Maloma for providing creative solutions and objectivity in

finalizing the book which released in 2015 with the title:

The Anxious Entrepreneur.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

He has initiated various community development projects in the past

more especially after his first publication as he has always been

inspired by sharing knowledge and the idea of leaving a legacy

behind. He then stared started KSE (Knowledge Sharing Enterprise).

In 2017, he tried to convince some people to form a partnership with

him for this initiative, however he ended up continuing this journey

with Sihle Picasso a private chef, who had a slot at Kasi FM about food

lessons and culinary arts. The MFBL (Mobile Food Business Lessons)

which educated people on how to start and grow mobile food

business was his initiative as quoted in the Daily Sun News paper.

Later on he also joined forces with Sebenzile a radio station manager

at Rainbow FM, to do more community work where he began to do

public speaking by engaging with young school young kids at Soweto.

Besides the MFBL between 2017 and 2018 he has also done various

public talk sessions where some were sponsored by the department

of education, some for financial literacy and some based on his book

Automotive Excellence.