Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd

A Diversified African Holding Group
Building Scalable Enterprise Ecosystems

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is a South African holding company focused on long-term value creation through strategic ownership of businesses across digital innovation and cultural enterprise sectors.

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Corporate Overview

Structured for
Long-Term Value

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is a South African holding company with a mandate to build, own, and develop a diversified portfolio of businesses across high-growth sectors. Through its portfolio companies, the Group delivers capability across digital innovation and cultural enterprise — sectors it has identified as central to Africa's economic future.


The Group's portfolio is structured across two primary verticals: digital innovation infrastructure and cultural enterprise economy. Each portfolio company carries its own brand, leadership, and market identity — backed by the Group's strategic ownership and governance framework.


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Long-Term Mandate

Portfolio

Our Companies

Imqomoyi Group holds ownership stakes in independently operated businesses. Each company carries its own brand, leadership, and market mandate.

IMQ Digital

Digital innovation, branding systems, and SME enablement infrastructure. A technology-forward operating company building the digital backbone for South African businesses at every growth stage.

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Roots Fest

Cultural economy platform focused on live events and creative industries. Roots Fest builds spaces where African heritage, contemporary expression, and community commerce converge.

Visit Roots Fest

Sector Exposure

Industries We Operate In

Digital Innovation & Systems
Cultural & Creative Economy
SME Ecosystems
Media & Events
Enterprise Development

Strategic Direction

Built for the African Century

Imqomoyi Group is structured around a singular conviction: that African enterprise, when properly capitalised, structured, and governed, produces outcomes of lasting significance.

The Group is built for the long arc — identifying sectors where digital infrastructure and cultural economy intersect with the lived realities of South African and African communities, and building ownership structures that endure across market cycles.

Governance discipline, brand integrity, and operational independence define how portfolio companies are managed. The Group's role is to hold, develop, and protect — not to centralise.

Ownership
Strategic, long-term holding structures with governance frameworks built for scale.
Independence
Portfolio companies operate with full operational autonomy under the Group umbrella.
Africa First
Rooted in South Africa, oriented toward the broader African economic opportunity.
Integrity
Decisions anchored in transparency, accountability, and long-horizon thinking.

Read Our Vision for Africa

Get in Touch

Contact the Group

Reach out to the Group for stakeholder communications, strategic enquiries, or general correspondence. For product and service enquiries, our portfolio companies — IMQ Digital and Roots Fest — can be contacted directly using the details below.

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd

Telephone
014 061 0982
Email
info@imqomoyigroup.co.za
Location
South Africa

Corporate Profile

About Imqomoyi Group

An institutional-grade holding company with a long-horizon mandate to build and govern diversified enterprise ecosystems across Africa.

What We Are

A Strategic Holding Company

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is a South African holding company with a mandate to build, own, and grow a diversified portfolio of businesses across digital innovation and cultural enterprise sectors. Through its portfolio, the Group brings strategic capability, governance structure, and long-term investment thinking to the businesses it owns.

The Group creates enduring enterprise value through disciplined ownership and structured business development. Each portfolio company is separately incorporated, independently managed, and fully accountable for its own commercial performance — with the Group providing strategic oversight and institutional backing.

Portfolio Structure

Two Verticals, Two Operating Companies

The Group's current portfolio spans two primary sectors: digital innovation and cultural enterprise. Each vertical is anchored by an operating company with its own brand, team, commercial model, and customer base.

IMQ Digital operates in the digital services and technology enablement space, serving businesses across South Africa with infrastructure, systems, and digital capabilities.

Roots Fest operates in the cultural economy — programming live events, supporting creative industries, and building platforms for African cultural commerce and expression.

Governance Model

Structured Independence

The Group maintains a clear delineation between holding-level governance and portfolio-level operations. Portfolio companies are not managed through the Group's central office — they operate with full autonomy under their own leadership structures.

The Group's governance function focuses on ownership oversight, strategic positioning, capital allocation, and ensuring that each portfolio company has the structural foundation to scale appropriately within its market.

Strategic Mandate

Long-Term Value Creation

Imqomoyi Group's strategic mandate is oriented toward structural, long-horizon value — building and holding businesses that compound capability and market position over time, rather than optimising for near-term yield.

The Group evaluates portfolio additions based on alignment with its core sectors, quality of founding or operating leadership, market defensibility, and capacity for structured growth within the African economic context.

Geographic Focus

South Africa HQ. Africa Mandate.

Imqomoyi Group is incorporated and headquartered in South Africa. Its primary operational focus is the South African market, with a broader strategic orientation toward the African continent as portfolio companies mature and regional expansion becomes viable.

The Group's positioning reflects a deliberate conviction that Africa's next generation of durable enterprises will be built by Africans, structured with institutional discipline, and scaled across borders from a solid domestic foundation.

Portfolio Companies

Our Companies

Imqomoyi Group holds strategic ownership in two independently operated businesses. Each company carries its own identity, leadership, and commercial mandate.

IMQ Digital Logo

Website
imqomoyidigital.co.za
Email
sales@imqomoyidigital.co.za
WhatsApp
+27 71 227 2195
Sector
Digital Innovation & Technology

IMQ Digital

IMQ Digital is a South African digital services company operating as a subsidiary of Imqomoyi Group. It exists to equip businesses — particularly small and medium enterprises — with the digital infrastructure, systems, and capabilities needed to compete in a connected economy.

The company's portfolio of offerings spans web design and development, hosting, VoIP and communication systems, branding, digital marketing, and business automation. IMQ Digital does not operate as a generalist agency — it builds purposeful, structured digital ecosystems for its clients.

IMQ Digital maintains its own brand identity, commercial relationships, and operational team. It is an independently operated portfolio company — backed by the Group's ownership structure and strategic mandate.

Web Design Hosting & VoIP Digital Branding SME Enablement Business Automation
Roots Fest Logo
Website
rootsfest.co.za
Email
info@rootsfest.co.za
WhatsApp
+27 62 094 8963
Sector
Cultural Economy & Live Events

Roots Fest

Roots Fest is a cultural economy platform and live events business operating as a subsidiary of Imqomoyi Group. It builds and programmes spaces where African heritage, contemporary creative expression, and community commerce converge.

The company's work sits at the intersection of events production, cultural curation, and economic activation — creating platforms that are both commercially viable and culturally significant. Roots Fest is not a festival brand alone; it is a vehicle for building sustainable creative economy infrastructure.

Roots Fest operates with independent branding, its own team, and direct market relationships. It is an independently managed portfolio company within the Imqomoyi Group ecosystem, handling all client, partner, and community engagement through its own channels.

Live Events Cultural Curation Creative Economy Heritage & Identity Community Commerce

Strategic Vision

Vision for Africa

Imqomoyi Group's long-range perspective on African enterprise development, digital transformation, and the structured building of scalable business ecosystems.

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African Enterprise as a Long Game

Imqomoyi Group operates from the conviction that durable African enterprises are built over years, not quarters. The temptation to optimise for near-term output — at the cost of structural integrity — is one the Group deliberately resists.

The companies held within the Group's portfolio are not positioned for rapid exit. They are built to compound: to grow in capability, market position, and institutional strength over time. This orientation shapes every ownership and governance decision the Group makes.

Africa's economic history is rich with examples of promising enterprises that collapsed not from lack of opportunity, but from lack of structure. Imqomoyi Group's mandate is to be structurally serious — from day one.

02

Digital Transformation as Infrastructure, Not Service

Too often, digital transformation in Africa is treated as a product to be sold rather than infrastructure to be built. The distinction matters enormously. Products get consumed. Infrastructure compounds.

Through IMQ Digital, the Group invests in the digital layer of small and medium enterprise Africa — building the hosting, connectivity, automation, and branding systems that allow businesses to operate with the same digital efficiency as larger competitors.

The vision is not a once-off website or a logo refresh. It is a long-term digital infrastructure relationship — one that grows with the businesses it serves and strengthens the broader ecosystem in the process.

03

Cultural Economy as a Serious Commercial Sector

African cultural economy — the economic activity generated by creative industries, live events, heritage platforms, and artistic commerce — is systematically undervalued and underinvested. Imqomoyi Group holds a different view.

Through Roots Fest, the Group operates in a space that most holding companies ignore: the intersection of culture and commerce. The premise is that cultural economy is not a charitable endeavour or a secondary priority. It is a legitimate, scalable commercial sector that, when properly structured, produces genuine economic returns alongside social and cultural value.

The Group's position in this space is intentional. It reflects a belief that the economies of the future will belong to those who understand the full spectrum of value — not only the transactional, but the cultural and communal.

04

Structured Business Ecosystems Over Fragmented Ventures

The Group's model is not a collection of unrelated bets. It is an intentionally designed ecosystem — where portfolio companies can, over time, develop synergies, share knowledge, and collectively represent a broader value proposition for the markets they serve.

This ecosystem thinking is embedded in how the Group evaluates future additions to its portfolio. The question is never simply "is this a good business?" The question is: "does this business belong in a structured ecosystem of African enterprises that compound together over time?"

That is the standard. It is a high one. And it is the standard that Imqomoyi Group intends to hold itself to, regardless of short-term pressure to move faster than discipline allows.

Legal

Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026  |  POPIA Compliant

1. Introduction

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd ("the Group", "we", "us") respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information submitted to us through this website, in compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (POPIA).

2. Information We Collect

We collect only the personal information you voluntarily provide through this website, including:

  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Telephone or mobile number
  • Content of messages submitted via our contact form

We do not automatically collect sensitive personal information unless expressly provided by you.

3. Purpose of Data Collection

Information submitted through this website is used solely to:

  • Respond to your enquiry or correspondence
  • Route your communication to the appropriate person or portfolio company
  • Maintain records of stakeholder communications at the Group level

We do not use your personal information for unsolicited marketing, profiling, or automated decision-making.

4. Data Storage and Protection

Personal information submitted through this website is handled with reasonable technical and organisational safeguards to prevent unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. Information is stored securely and retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law.

5. Sharing of Information

Imqomoyi Group does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third parties. Where an enquiry is best addressed by a portfolio company (IMQ Digital or Roots Fest), we may forward your communication to that company with your implicit consent at the time of submission. We will never share your information beyond the Group's portfolio ecosystem without your express consent.

6. Your Rights

Under POPIA, you have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Request deletion of your personal information, subject to lawful retention requirements
  • Object to the processing of your personal information
  • Lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at info@imqomoyigroup.co.za.

7. Cookies

This website does not currently use cookies for tracking or analytics purposes. Should this change, this policy will be updated accordingly.

8. Policy Updates

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in applicable law or our data practices. The most current version will always be available on this page.

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Terms of Use

Last updated: June 2026

1. Nature of This Website

This website is operated by Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd for corporate information and stakeholder communication purposes. It presents the Group's portfolio, strategic positioning, and contact information. Nothing on this website constitutes a binding commercial offer on behalf of the Group or any of its portfolio companies unless confirmed in a separate written agreement.

2. Portfolio Companies

The portfolio companies referenced on this website — including IMQ Digital and Roots Fest — are independently operated entities with separate legal identities, mandates, branding, and operational functions. Each company is responsible for its own representations, offerings, and commercial conduct.

Any commercial relationship you enter into with a portfolio company is governed by that company's own terms and agreements. Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is the holding entity and strategic owner; specific contractual obligations rest with the relevant portfolio company unless otherwise confirmed in writing by the Group.

3. Accuracy of Information

Imqomoyi Group makes reasonable efforts to ensure the information on this website is accurate and current. However, no warranty is given regarding the completeness, accuracy, or fitness for purpose of any content published here. Information may change without notice. Users are encouraged to verify critical information directly with the relevant entity.

4. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from:

  • Use of or reliance on content published on this website
  • Inability to access this website
  • Actions taken based on information obtained from this website
  • The conduct or performance of any portfolio company

5. Intellectual Property

All content on this website, including text, logos, imagery, and design elements, is the property of Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd or its respective portfolio companies. No content may be reproduced, copied, or distributed without prior written authorisation.

6. External Links

This website may contain links to the websites of portfolio companies or other third parties. These links are provided for convenience only. Imqomoyi Group does not endorse, control, or accept responsibility for the content of any linked external site.

7. Governing Law

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Any disputes arising from use of this website shall be subject to the jurisdiction of South African courts.

8. Amendments

Imqomoyi Group reserves the right to amend these Terms of Use at any time. Continued use of the website following any amendment constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

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Holding Company Disclaimer

Last updated: June 2026

Important Notice

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is a holding company. Its subsidiaries operate as independent entities with separate mandates, branding, and operational functions. Group-level enquiries are handled centrally; product and service enquiries should be directed to the relevant portfolio company.

Group Structure and Service Delivery

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd operates as a holding company that owns and governs a portfolio of operating businesses. Commercial activity, client relationships, and service delivery are conducted by the Group's portfolio companies — IMQ Digital and Roots Fest — each operating under its own brand and legal identity. For enquiries related to specific products or services, please contact the relevant portfolio company directly.

Portfolio Company Independence

IMQ Digital and Roots Fest are separate operating companies with distinct legal identities. They are not divisions, departments, or trading names of Imqomoyi Group. They operate with their own leadership, staff, accounts, and market relationships.

Any representation made by a portfolio company in its own commercial dealings does not constitute a representation by Imqomoyi Group at the holding level, and vice versa. Contractual obligations with a portfolio company are governed by that company's own agreements and applicable law.

Investment and Financial Disclaimer

Nothing on this website constitutes financial advice, an investment offer, or a prospectus. Imqomoyi Group does not solicit investment from the public. Any reference to strategy, value creation, or growth is for informational and contextual purposes only and does not represent a guarantee or forecast.

Brand and Identity Disclaimer

The use of portfolio company logos and brand assets on this website is for identification and informational purposes only. The appearance of a portfolio company's brand on this site does not imply endorsement of group-level statements, nor does it transfer any liability to the portfolio company for representations made at the Group level.

Contact Routing

Enquiries submitted through this website are handled by Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd. For product, service, or event-related enquiries, users are directed to contact the relevant portfolio company directly via the contact information provided in the Our Companies section.

Imqomoyi Group (Pty) Ltd is a registered South African holding company. Commercial and service enquiries are handled by our portfolio companies, IMQ Digital and Roots Fest. Full Disclaimer  |  Privacy Policy (POPIA)