Statotech Systems and Ebenworks
Nationality
Zimbabwe
Category
Business leader, entrepreneur or startup of the year
Session
KAFXA Awards — 3rd Edition
Why they were nominated
Achievements:
Statotech Systems and Ebenworks are Zimbabwean software and AI companies based in Seoul, founded in 2026. They build software products, applied AI subscription services, web services, and consulting for African businesses, and they build and give away digital infrastructure for the African community in Korea.
Seventeen products are in production today, the newest of them in pilot, across two continents—all of them built since January 2026.
In May 2026 the Zimbabwe Warriors played the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in a gold and purple kit with heritage patterns sponsored by the two companies, at a tournament running on software they built. Sixteen nations, thirty-two matches across two pitches in Pyeongtaek, roughly 1,300 people in attendance, and Cameroon beat South Africa 1–0 in the final. The software was provided at no charge.
The products:
1. Shop POS — a shop till that handles USD and ZiG on one screen, with EcoCash and OneMoney built in, for an economy that runs on two currencies at once.
2. MenuWise — a printed restaurant menu replaced by a QR code customers order from, with prices you can change instantly.
3. ZimSchool ERP — school management and fee collection, built for how schools here actually work.
4. ZimRate — Zimbabwe's exchange rates published live, with a free public API.
5. AfriRate — the same rate data for 28 African countries, also free to any developer. Sixteen central-bank sources, including shared-currency zones: one BCEAO feed serving the eight WAEMU states, and the CMA rand zone.
6. ToraShaout — personalised video messages from celebrities.
7. Clinic Manager — clinic management given to Zimbabwean clinics free, with hosting included.
8. Imali — a bookkeeper that lives inside WhatsApp, for informal traders without access to an accountant. Live in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It identifies a trader's country from their phone number and applies the right currency and tax rules with no setup. Input can be a text, a voice note, or a photograph of a receipt. The record it builds gives a cash business something it is rarely offered: a credit history.
9. Chingu — a Korean-speaking voice companion for elderly people living alone, with an app for their family and a dashboard for their welfare worker.
10. Phila — patient records and triage that keep working on a cheap phone when the network drops, which is the normal condition in the clinics it is built for. A nurse or doctor makes every decision; the software only helps them see.
11. BidWright — drafts tender responses for contractors bidding on work.
12. Izwi Label OS — everything an independent record label needs to run itself.
13. Tzohar Sites — personal websites and portfolios.
14. A–Z Dates — city guides across fourteen countries.
15. StatoSports — a tournament platform any organiser can run themselves, carrying seven competitions.
16. KAFCON — the match centre for the Korea Africa Cup of Nations: fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and a referee console. Donated.
17. Zim-Korea Hub — the community platform for Zimbabweans across Korea. Donated.
An eighteenth is in delivery: Horizon Foncier, a national digital land administration platform for Gabon covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
The commercial products fund the free ones. Card payments run on the companies' own billing platform, and the subscription products share a single sign-on account.
Contributions and Impact:
Three of the platforms are public service: built by the two companies, sponsored by them, and charged to nobody.
Zimbabweans in Korea had no shared digital home. What the community did lived in WhatsApp groups and vanished when people left them. The Zim-Korea Hub was built and handed over at no cost, neutral by design and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea whatever group they belong to. It now holds the community's memory — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular visit notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — plus six guides on what actually trips people up here: ARC registration, banking, remittances, shipping, phone plans and healthcare. The promise on the site is three phrases long: "No cost. No subscription. Just community."
KAFCON had no digital home either. Edmond Atemnkeng of Afro Entertainment founded the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, and five editions have been played in Pyeongtaek. Most community tournaments run on a spreadsheet and a few WhatsApp groups. A match centre was built with fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and match officiating, and it grew into StatoSports, where any organiser can run their own tournament. It carries seven competitions and the full KAFCON record from 2022 to 2026.
The support is financial as well as technical. The two companies sponsored the Warriors' KAFCON 2026 kit. In July they sponsored Liberia's 179th Independence Day celebrations in Korea and ran the Liberian Association's tournament on StatoSports — a Zimbabwean-founded company sponsoring another African nation's national day, which is the kind of cooperation between African communities these awards exist to recognise.
The same approach runs through the commercial work: a dual-currency till rather than pretending Zimbabwe works like anywhere else, fee collection built for local schools, bookkeeping for traders no accountant will visit, exchange-rate data given away so other African developers can build on it, and clinical records that survive a dropped connection.
The model is now being asked for elsewhere. The Liberian and Kenyan communities in Korea have asked for platforms of their own, and Gabon has the same team building national land administration infrastructure.
Why the nominee deserves the award:
The impact in Korea. The African community in Korea has digital infrastructure today that did not exist before these two companies built it. Zim-Korea Hub is the permanent home of the Zimbabwean community's record — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — donated outright and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea, whatever group they belong to, alongside six guides on the things that actually trip people up here. KAFCON, the tournament that brought sixteen African nations and roughly 1,300 people together in Pyeongtaek this May, runs its fixtures, live scores, standings and match officiating on software these companies built and gave to it. The Liberian Association ran its 179th Independence Day tournament on the same platform, sponsored by the two companies. The Zimbabwe Warriors took the field at KAFCON 2026 in a kit they sponsored. Three communities, three different nations, one set of infrastructure — built in Korea, by Africans in Korea, for Africans in Korea.
The impact in Africa. The same work runs south. Imali puts a bookkeeper inside WhatsApp for informal traders in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and builds them the credit history a cash business is rarely offered. AfriRate publishes central-bank exchange rates for 28 African countries free to any developer, so others can build on African data without paying for it. Shop POS gives Zimbabwean shops a till that handles two currencies because Zimbabwe has two currencies. ZimSchool ERP collects fees the way schools here actually collect them. Clinic Manager is free to Zimbabwean clinics with hosting included. And Horizon Foncier is now taking the same team into national infrastructure — the digital land administration platform for Gabon, covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
Why this is deserved. None of it is a foreign product shipped south and relabelled. Every one of these was designed for these conditions by people living in them, and the pattern is consistent: the public service is given away and the commercial work carries it. The Hub was donated. The clinic software is free, hosting included. The rate APIs are free. The match centre was handed to KAFCON. Another African nation's independence celebration was sponsored directly. That is a deliberate structure, not occasional charity — and what it produces outlasts the companies' involvement. Take the two of them out of the picture tomorrow and the Zimbabwean community in Korea still has its digital home, KAFCON still has the record of its own history, and the Liberian Association still has a platform for its tournament.
What the recognition would mean. It would not sit only with the two companies. The Hub, the match centre and the tournament platform belong to communities that had none of this before, and recognition would put them in front of more of the people they were built for — more Zimbabweans finding the guides, more organisers running their competitions properly, more traders learning that bookkeeping can happen in the app already on their phone. It would also say something worth saying to the next African founder in Korea: that building for your own community here is real work, that it is possible from this side of the world, and that it is seen.
All of this can be checked at statotec.com, ebenworks.co, zimkorea.statotec.com, kafcon.statotec.com, statosports.statotec.com, and imali.ebenworks.co.
Statotech Systems and Ebenworks are Zimbabwean software and AI companies based in Seoul, founded in 2026. They build software products, applied AI subscription services, web services, and consulting for African businesses, and they build and give away digital infrastructure for the African community in Korea.
Seventeen products are in production today, the newest of them in pilot, across two continents—all of them built since January 2026.
In May 2026 the Zimbabwe Warriors played the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in a gold and purple kit with heritage patterns sponsored by the two companies, at a tournament running on software they built. Sixteen nations, thirty-two matches across two pitches in Pyeongtaek, roughly 1,300 people in attendance, and Cameroon beat South Africa 1–0 in the final. The software was provided at no charge.
The products:
1. Shop POS — a shop till that handles USD and ZiG on one screen, with EcoCash and OneMoney built in, for an economy that runs on two currencies at once.
2. MenuWise — a printed restaurant menu replaced by a QR code customers order from, with prices you can change instantly.
3. ZimSchool ERP — school management and fee collection, built for how schools here actually work.
4. ZimRate — Zimbabwe's exchange rates published live, with a free public API.
5. AfriRate — the same rate data for 28 African countries, also free to any developer. Sixteen central-bank sources, including shared-currency zones: one BCEAO feed serving the eight WAEMU states, and the CMA rand zone.
6. ToraShaout — personalised video messages from celebrities.
7. Clinic Manager — clinic management given to Zimbabwean clinics free, with hosting included.
8. Imali — a bookkeeper that lives inside WhatsApp, for informal traders without access to an accountant. Live in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It identifies a trader's country from their phone number and applies the right currency and tax rules with no setup. Input can be a text, a voice note, or a photograph of a receipt. The record it builds gives a cash business something it is rarely offered: a credit history.
9. Chingu — a Korean-speaking voice companion for elderly people living alone, with an app for their family and a dashboard for their welfare worker.
10. Phila — patient records and triage that keep working on a cheap phone when the network drops, which is the normal condition in the clinics it is built for. A nurse or doctor makes every decision; the software only helps them see.
11. BidWright — drafts tender responses for contractors bidding on work.
12. Izwi Label OS — everything an independent record label needs to run itself.
13. Tzohar Sites — personal websites and portfolios.
14. A–Z Dates — city guides across fourteen countries.
15. StatoSports — a tournament platform any organiser can run themselves, carrying seven competitions.
16. KAFCON — the match centre for the Korea Africa Cup of Nations: fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and a referee console. Donated.
17. Zim-Korea Hub — the community platform for Zimbabweans across Korea. Donated.
An eighteenth is in delivery: Horizon Foncier, a national digital land administration platform for Gabon covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
The commercial products fund the free ones. Card payments run on the companies' own billing platform, and the subscription products share a single sign-on account.
Contributions and Impact:
Three of the platforms are public service: built by the two companies, sponsored by them, and charged to nobody.
Zimbabweans in Korea had no shared digital home. What the community did lived in WhatsApp groups and vanished when people left them. The Zim-Korea Hub was built and handed over at no cost, neutral by design and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea whatever group they belong to. It now holds the community's memory — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular visit notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — plus six guides on what actually trips people up here: ARC registration, banking, remittances, shipping, phone plans and healthcare. The promise on the site is three phrases long: "No cost. No subscription. Just community."
KAFCON had no digital home either. Edmond Atemnkeng of Afro Entertainment founded the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, and five editions have been played in Pyeongtaek. Most community tournaments run on a spreadsheet and a few WhatsApp groups. A match centre was built with fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and match officiating, and it grew into StatoSports, where any organiser can run their own tournament. It carries seven competitions and the full KAFCON record from 2022 to 2026.
The support is financial as well as technical. The two companies sponsored the Warriors' KAFCON 2026 kit. In July they sponsored Liberia's 179th Independence Day celebrations in Korea and ran the Liberian Association's tournament on StatoSports — a Zimbabwean-founded company sponsoring another African nation's national day, which is the kind of cooperation between African communities these awards exist to recognise.
The same approach runs through the commercial work: a dual-currency till rather than pretending Zimbabwe works like anywhere else, fee collection built for local schools, bookkeeping for traders no accountant will visit, exchange-rate data given away so other African developers can build on it, and clinical records that survive a dropped connection.
The model is now being asked for elsewhere. The Liberian and Kenyan communities in Korea have asked for platforms of their own, and Gabon has the same team building national land administration infrastructure.
Why the nominee deserves the award:
The impact in Korea. The African community in Korea has digital infrastructure today that did not exist before these two companies built it. Zim-Korea Hub is the permanent home of the Zimbabwean community's record — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — donated outright and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea, whatever group they belong to, alongside six guides on the things that actually trip people up here. KAFCON, the tournament that brought sixteen African nations and roughly 1,300 people together in Pyeongtaek this May, runs its fixtures, live scores, standings and match officiating on software these companies built and gave to it. The Liberian Association ran its 179th Independence Day tournament on the same platform, sponsored by the two companies. The Zimbabwe Warriors took the field at KAFCON 2026 in a kit they sponsored. Three communities, three different nations, one set of infrastructure — built in Korea, by Africans in Korea, for Africans in Korea.
The impact in Africa. The same work runs south. Imali puts a bookkeeper inside WhatsApp for informal traders in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and builds them the credit history a cash business is rarely offered. AfriRate publishes central-bank exchange rates for 28 African countries free to any developer, so others can build on African data without paying for it. Shop POS gives Zimbabwean shops a till that handles two currencies because Zimbabwe has two currencies. ZimSchool ERP collects fees the way schools here actually collect them. Clinic Manager is free to Zimbabwean clinics with hosting included. And Horizon Foncier is now taking the same team into national infrastructure — the digital land administration platform for Gabon, covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
Why this is deserved. None of it is a foreign product shipped south and relabelled. Every one of these was designed for these conditions by people living in them, and the pattern is consistent: the public service is given away and the commercial work carries it. The Hub was donated. The clinic software is free, hosting included. The rate APIs are free. The match centre was handed to KAFCON. Another African nation's independence celebration was sponsored directly. That is a deliberate structure, not occasional charity — and what it produces outlasts the companies' involvement. Take the two of them out of the picture tomorrow and the Zimbabwean community in Korea still has its digital home, KAFCON still has the record of its own history, and the Liberian Association still has a platform for its tournament.
What the recognition would mean. It would not sit only with the two companies. The Hub, the match centre and the tournament platform belong to communities that had none of this before, and recognition would put them in front of more of the people they were built for — more Zimbabweans finding the guides, more organisers running their competitions properly, more traders learning that bookkeeping can happen in the app already on their phone. It would also say something worth saying to the next African founder in Korea: that building for your own community here is real work, that it is possible from this side of the world, and that it is seen.
All of this can be checked at statotec.com, ebenworks.co, zimkorea.statotec.com, kafcon.statotec.com, statosports.statotec.com, and imali.ebenworks.co.
Achievements
Statotech Systems and Ebenworks are Zimbabwean software and AI companies based in Seoul, founded in 2026. They build software products, applied AI subscription services, web services, and consulting for African businesses, and they build and give away digital infrastructure for the African community in Korea.
Seventeen products are in production today, the newest of them in pilot, across two continents—all of them built since January 2026.
In May 2026 the Zimbabwe Warriors played the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in a gold and purple kit with heritage patterns sponsored by the two companies, at a tournament running on software they built. Sixteen nations, thirty-two matches across two pitches in Pyeongtaek, roughly 1,300 people in attendance, and Cameroon beat South Africa 1–0 in the final. The software was provided at no charge.
The products:
1. Shop POS — a shop till that handles USD and ZiG on one screen, with EcoCash and OneMoney built in, for an economy that runs on two currencies at once.
2. MenuWise — a printed restaurant menu replaced by a QR code customers order from, with prices you can change instantly.
3. ZimSchool ERP — school management and fee collection, built for how schools here actually work.
4. ZimRate — Zimbabwe's exchange rates published live, with a free public API.
5. AfriRate — the same rate data for 28 African countries, also free to any developer. Sixteen central-bank sources, including shared-currency zones: one BCEAO feed serving the eight WAEMU states, and the CMA rand zone.
6. ToraShaout — personalised video messages from celebrities.
7. Clinic Manager — clinic management given to Zimbabwean clinics free, with hosting included.
8. Imali — a bookkeeper that lives inside WhatsApp, for informal traders without access to an accountant. Live in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It identifies a trader's country from their phone number and applies the right currency and tax rules with no setup. Input can be a text, a voice note, or a photograph of a receipt. The record it builds gives a cash business something it is rarely offered: a credit history.
9. Chingu — a Korean-speaking voice companion for elderly people living alone, with an app for their family and a dashboard for their welfare worker.
10. Phila — patient records and triage that keep working on a cheap phone when the network drops, which is the normal condition in the clinics it is built for. A nurse or doctor makes every decision; the software only helps them see.
11. BidWright — drafts tender responses for contractors bidding on work.
12. Izwi Label OS — everything an independent record label needs to run itself.
13. Tzohar Sites — personal websites and portfolios.
14. A–Z Dates — city guides across fourteen countries.
15. StatoSports — a tournament platform any organiser can run themselves, carrying seven competitions.
16. KAFCON — the match centre for the Korea Africa Cup of Nations: fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and a referee console. Donated.
17. Zim-Korea Hub — the community platform for Zimbabweans across Korea. Donated.
An eighteenth is in delivery: Horizon Foncier, a national digital land administration platform for Gabon covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
The commercial products fund the free ones. Card payments run on the companies' own billing platform, and the subscription products share a single sign-on account.
Seventeen products are in production today, the newest of them in pilot, across two continents—all of them built since January 2026.
In May 2026 the Zimbabwe Warriors played the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in a gold and purple kit with heritage patterns sponsored by the two companies, at a tournament running on software they built. Sixteen nations, thirty-two matches across two pitches in Pyeongtaek, roughly 1,300 people in attendance, and Cameroon beat South Africa 1–0 in the final. The software was provided at no charge.
The products:
1. Shop POS — a shop till that handles USD and ZiG on one screen, with EcoCash and OneMoney built in, for an economy that runs on two currencies at once.
2. MenuWise — a printed restaurant menu replaced by a QR code customers order from, with prices you can change instantly.
3. ZimSchool ERP — school management and fee collection, built for how schools here actually work.
4. ZimRate — Zimbabwe's exchange rates published live, with a free public API.
5. AfriRate — the same rate data for 28 African countries, also free to any developer. Sixteen central-bank sources, including shared-currency zones: one BCEAO feed serving the eight WAEMU states, and the CMA rand zone.
6. ToraShaout — personalised video messages from celebrities.
7. Clinic Manager — clinic management given to Zimbabwean clinics free, with hosting included.
8. Imali — a bookkeeper that lives inside WhatsApp, for informal traders without access to an accountant. Live in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It identifies a trader's country from their phone number and applies the right currency and tax rules with no setup. Input can be a text, a voice note, or a photograph of a receipt. The record it builds gives a cash business something it is rarely offered: a credit history.
9. Chingu — a Korean-speaking voice companion for elderly people living alone, with an app for their family and a dashboard for their welfare worker.
10. Phila — patient records and triage that keep working on a cheap phone when the network drops, which is the normal condition in the clinics it is built for. A nurse or doctor makes every decision; the software only helps them see.
11. BidWright — drafts tender responses for contractors bidding on work.
12. Izwi Label OS — everything an independent record label needs to run itself.
13. Tzohar Sites — personal websites and portfolios.
14. A–Z Dates — city guides across fourteen countries.
15. StatoSports — a tournament platform any organiser can run themselves, carrying seven competitions.
16. KAFCON — the match centre for the Korea Africa Cup of Nations: fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and a referee console. Donated.
17. Zim-Korea Hub — the community platform for Zimbabweans across Korea. Donated.
An eighteenth is in delivery: Horizon Foncier, a national digital land administration platform for Gabon covering the cadastre, a property marketplace, professional training and government workflow.
The commercial products fund the free ones. Card payments run on the companies' own billing platform, and the subscription products share a single sign-on account.
Contributions & Impact
Three of the platforms are public service: built by the two companies, sponsored by them, and charged to nobody.
Zimbabweans in Korea had no shared digital home. What the community did lived in WhatsApp groups and vanished when people left them. The Zim-Korea Hub was built and handed over at no cost, neutral by design and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea whatever group they belong to. It now holds the community's memory — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular visit notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — plus six guides on what actually trips people up here: ARC registration, banking, remittances, shipping, phone plans and healthcare. The promise on the site is three phrases long: "No cost. No subscription. Just community."
KAFCON had no digital home either. Edmond Atemnkeng of Afro Entertainment founded the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, and five editions have been played in Pyeongtaek. Most community tournaments run on a spreadsheet and a few WhatsApp groups. A match centre was built with fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and match officiating, and it grew into StatoSports, where any organiser can run their own tournament. It carries seven competitions and the full KAFCON record from 2022 to 2026.
The support is financial as well as technical. The two companies sponsored the Warriors' KAFCON 2026 kit. In July they sponsored Liberia's 179th Independence Day celebrations in Korea and ran the Liberian Association's tournament on StatoSports — a Zimbabwean-founded company sponsoring another African nation's national day, which is the kind of cooperation between African communities these awards exist to recognise.
The same approach runs through the commercial work: a dual-currency till rather than pretending Zimbabwe works like anywhere else, fee collection built for local schools, bookkeeping for traders no accountant will visit, exchange-rate data given away so other African developers can build on it, and clinical records that survive a dropped connection.
The model is now being asked for elsewhere. The Liberian and Kenyan communities in Korea have asked for platforms of their own, and Gabon has the same team building national land administration infrastructure.
Zimbabweans in Korea had no shared digital home. What the community did lived in WhatsApp groups and vanished when people left them. The Zim-Korea Hub was built and handed over at no cost, neutral by design and open to every Zimbabwean in Korea whatever group they belong to. It now holds the community's memory — Independence Day from 2023 to 2026, the Presidential diaspora engagement, consular visit notices, the Sables' win over Korea, Seoul Africa Festival, every KAFCON campaign — plus six guides on what actually trips people up here: ARC registration, banking, remittances, shipping, phone plans and healthcare. The promise on the site is three phrases long: "No cost. No subscription. Just community."
KAFCON had no digital home either. Edmond Atemnkeng of Afro Entertainment founded the Korea Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, and five editions have been played in Pyeongtaek. Most community tournaments run on a spreadsheet and a few WhatsApp groups. A match centre was built with fixtures, live scores, standings, brackets and match officiating, and it grew into StatoSports, where any organiser can run their own tournament. It carries seven competitions and the full KAFCON record from 2022 to 2026.
The support is financial as well as technical. The two companies sponsored the Warriors' KAFCON 2026 kit. In July they sponsored Liberia's 179th Independence Day celebrations in Korea and ran the Liberian Association's tournament on StatoSports — a Zimbabwean-founded company sponsoring another African nation's national day, which is the kind of cooperation between African communities these awards exist to recognise.
The same approach runs through the commercial work: a dual-currency till rather than pretending Zimbabwe works like anywhere else, fee collection built for local schools, bookkeeping for traders no accountant will visit, exchange-rate data given away so other African developers can build on it, and clinical records that survive a dropped connection.
The model is now being asked for elsewhere. The Liberian and Kenyan communities in Korea have asked for platforms of their own, and Gabon has the same team building national land administration infrastructure.
