Zimile

BOB KABEYA

BUSINESS UNIT HEAD: TRANSPORT

BEng Civil | BEng Honours Transport | MBA | Pr Eng | MSAICE

Bob is a registered professional civil engineer (ECSA) and strategic project manager with over a decade of experience in transport, mobility systems and traffic engineering across Africa. As business unit head: transport at Zimile, he leads transport planning, traffic systems, public transport and smart mobility initiatives, delivering context-appropriate solutions for developing economies. He has led multimillion-rand projects in more than 14 African countries and is recognised for his expertise in traffic flow optimisation, road safety, public transport systems and transport data analytics. Previously, he served as managing director of Transdata Consult and held senior roles at GoMetro and GoAscendal, leading World Bank-funded and city-scale mobility programmes. His deep understanding of African transport dynamics, combined with multilingual fluency in English, French, Lingala and Swahili, underpins his reputation as a trusted leader in regional transport and mobility development.

Zimile’s core competency is the design, construction and supervision of various infrastructure projects through a single source support framework from concept planning through to completion. We are a Proudly South African, Level 1, 100% black-owned and managed company with a strong focus on youth employment.

Our company has an extensive footprint across South Africa with a strong presence in both the public as well as private sectors. Our experience across diverse industries and includes, but is not limited to, work on several rehabilitation, maintenance and upgrades of roads; preliminary, detail design and environmental impact assessments; tender documentation; taxiway reconstruction; and the rehabilitation of runways.

We are Zimile – where bold ideas meet practical solutions. We fuse technical excellence with imaginative thinking to design infrastructure that serves today and shapes a sustainable tomorrow. Rooted in African ingenuity, we engineer with purpose, passion, and a commitment to meaningful impact.

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