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October 2019
Tumi Phake is a South African based entrepreneur, author and speaker. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Zenzele Fitness Group, a fitness and wellness company that operates multiple gym facilities across South Africa. His company was the first black company to build a chain of health clubs that primarily offers services to corporations and Universities. He recently won the 2017 South African entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Early life He was born in Katlehong Township, but was raised by his entrepreneur grandmother from Tembisa township. Tumi was always an avid sports person and he spent most of his childhood years playing basketball, soccer and running track. He was inspired by his entrepreneur grandmother to have passion in business. After high school, his dreams was to move to the USA to play University basketball. Due to lack of access to sponsorship funding, he was not able to full ill his dream. He then decided to find work and landed his first job at a book store. He fell in love with reading and was exposed to business books. This inspired him to enrol for a financial management degree at the University of South Africa.

He become a banker with seven years in the industry, specialising in structured lending and investment banking. During this time, he identify a gap in the South Africa market, that health clubs are only accessible to a few people in South Africa and had a passion to create a fitness and wellness to all South Africans.

Phake spent a lot of time learning and leveraging off industry experts. Inspired by his passion for health, fitness and business, in 2014 Tumi founded Zenzele fitness Group. Zenzele delivers turnkey fitness and wellness solutions for corporate and government clients who seek to promote employee wellness. Furthermore, Zenzele designs, furnishes, outfits, operates and manages fitness facilities, extending beyond the idea of a simple gym. Top-of-the-line technology and equipment allows for the tracking of all activities and facilities while working closely with medical experts across the country to deliver excellent service to users. Currently Zenzele prides itself with multiple established gyms in some of South Africa’s most successful companies including one at an internationally recognised institution of higher learning which launched in January 2017. Since the inception of the company, Phake has managed to raise multi million funding He plans to expand not only in South Africa, but to the rest of the African continent as a publicly listed company, dominating the industry as the first black player. Phake previously served as a junior board member for FNB Wealth. In 2015, he was recognised by the Mail&Guardian’s Top 200 Young South African’s list, an initiative that recognises South Africans under the age of 35 who are ground breakers in various industries. In 2016, Phake was selected as a South African ambassador for the prestigious Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) in the United States of America, a leadership programme established by former president Barack Obama for young African Leaders. During the programme he studied Business and Entrepreneurship at Virginia Commonwealth University and had the great honour of meeting former president of the USA, Barack Obama. He is now contributing to the entrepreneurial development journey of others as a business mentor at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. He is also been appointed as an Advisory board member for Tswane University of Technology

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