Sivu Kotela is an Afro-impact advocate, entrepreneur and strategist. He was born and bred in Port Elizabeth, where he also studied Software Development, and after working in different industries, started his own technology business. After a couple of years successfully running the purely-for-profit enterprise, he started sensing a discomfort that made him long for, what he calls, “something deeper than the bottom-line”.

At that time, he understood this longing to be a call to full-time pastoral ministry. He then completely left his business and enrolled for and graduated with a BA Theology degree. With time his Christian faith; personal life story; entrepreneurial disposition and love for Africa collided, corroborated and subsequently crystallised into the personal mission of “inspiring a generation that loves and changes Africa”. He calls himself an Afro-impact evangelist.