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About Sitoza

Quiet confidence, earned with evidence

We’re an independent South African assurance and cyber security firm. Our job is to tell you the truth about your posture, clearly, calmly, and backed by proof the board can trust.

Our story

Founded to replace fear with facts

Sitoza was founded by Brenda Funo, an IT audit, governance and business-intelligence leader with more than 20 years across South African banking and insurance, who kept seeing the same thing across boardrooms: alarming reports leadership couldn’t act on.

The advice was either too technical to govern by, or too vague to trust. So the firm was built around a simple discipline: every claim is traceable to evidence, every finding maps to a control, and every report is written for the people who have to make the decision.

Today Sitoza serves regulated enterprises across banking, mining, energy, the public sector and beyond, combining independent IT audit and technology assurance with cybersecurity and AI assurance. It stays deliberately local: rooted in South African law and reality, POPIA, King IV and the Information Regulator, and continuously monitoring posture rather than checking in once a year.

35+ yrs
Combined — banking, consulting & software development
Jo’burg
Independent & locally rooted
Evidence
Every finding mapped to a control
What we stand for

Values

Independence

We don’t resell the products we assess. Our only stake is an honest, defensible picture of your risk.

Evidence

Every finding is backed by proof and mapped to a control, nothing asserted that can’t be shown.

Clarity

Board-ready on top, technical depth underneath. Everyone reads the same report and understands their part.

Local expertise

Rooted in South African law and reality: POPIA, King IV and the Regulator, not a template from elsewhere.

Leadership

Meet the leadership team

Three decades and more of combined experience across banking, consulting and software development.

Brenda Funo, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sitoza
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Brenda Funo

Brenda founded Sitoza and leads it as Chief Executive Officer. An IT audit, governance and business-intelligence specialist with over 20 years across South African banking and insurance, she has held IT Audit Manager and IT Operations Manager roles at Absa Internal Audit and led business intelligence at Standard Bank and Munich Reinsurance of Africa. A Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with deep strength in SAP audit, data analytics, IT general controls and ISO 27001, she founded Sitoza on the belief that assurance should reduce anxiety, not manufacture it, translating complex control weaknesses into practical business action.

CISA (2026)BCom & Hons Business Informatics (UNISA)Data Science (Explore AI)Duke · IMD Executive Education
Ayanda Kunene, Chief Operating Officer of Sitoza
Chief Operating Officer

Ayanda Kunene

Ayanda is Sitoza’s Chief Operating Officer. A Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), he has spent more than 14 years leading IT audit and technology-risk engagements across banking, professional services and enterprise, including as Vice President of Internal Audit at Absa and roles at Nedbank and KPMG. His work spans IT audit, cybersecurity, SAP controls, continuous monitoring, data analytics and AI assurance, and he drives Sitoza’s delivery and operations.

CISACOBIT (APMG)ISACA & IIA MemberMIT Sloan · Duke Executive Education
Tsolo Moahloli, Chief Information Officer of Sitoza
Chief Information Officer

Tsolo Moahloli

Tsolo is Sitoza’s Chief Information Officer and the founder of Uhuru AI, an applied-AI and software-development studio. He leads Sitoza’s software and programme-development capability, building the platforms, integrations and data tooling behind its assurance work. Through Uhuru AI he brings deep expertise in AI and automation, and his focus is building technology that makes assurance faster, clearer and more resilient.

Founder, Uhuru AIAI & Software DevelopmentCloud & Automation
Ecosystem

Strategic partners

We work alongside specialist partner organisations to deliver assurance and software at scale.

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Work with an assurance partner that tells you the truth

Whether you need an IT audit, SAP or AI assurance, certification support or continuous monitoring, we’ll give you a clear, evidence-led picture of where you stand.