The founder behind every session
Every program on this site is built and delivered by the same person. The method is not borrowed theory. It was built from inside three decades of telecommunications, infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.
Sthembiso Dlamini grew up in Ncangosini, a rural area close to Hlathikhulu, and attended Ebenezer Primary and Ebenezer High. He went on to complete a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, majoring in Telecommunications, graduating in 2009. Before entering the telecommunications industry full time, he spent a short period lecturing the Delphi programming language at Oxford College and completed a four-month internship at Swazi TV, now Eswatini TV.
His telecommunications career began as a consultant on the setup of a fixed mobile network later branded One, built under the then Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (now EPTC), through the management consultancy Rubiem Technologies. That consultancy work carried him to Harare, Zimbabwe, where he continued delivering network consultancy engagements at NetOne, TelOne, and Africom.
Returning to Eswatini, he joined the telecommunications sector first as a Human Resources Development Officer before transitioning into the technical ranks, starting as a cadet engineer in the Network Operations Centre (NOC). He rose to Senior Engineer for Research & Development and Planning before departing in January 2016 to focus fully on Touch IT Networks, a company he had already started in 2012. Under his leadership Touch IT Networks became a WiFi pioneer in the country, earning a GECS license from ESCCOM in 2017, while he simultaneously led the network consultancy that built Swazi Mobile, now Eswatini Mobile, from the ground up. He went on to pioneer the build of the Eswatini Ministry of ICT network from 2018, through the years that followed into the COVID-19 pandemic.
He then established Touch IT Networks South Africa in Johannesburg, followed by Quadrupleplay, building it into a creator of other internet service providers across South Africa before extending operations into Zambia on 4G and 5G networks. In South Africa he reinvented how fibre-to-the-home networks are delivered, pushing that delivery model into rural areas and sustaining it through the country's most severe stage-6 load shedding. Quadrupleplay, in his words, does not just build internet service providers. It builds the ecosystem those providers depend on.
The advance of artificial intelligence gave rise to MessageFlowQ, an entity built to simplify business processes and increase business value, and from that same body of work came QhraalOne, built to interpret the how behind that value: the energy a founder and a team actually need to deliver it.
In July 2026 he completed a Master of Business Administration in Digital Transformation at the University of Johannesburg, enrolled since May 2022. Partway through that degree, in 2025, he began a two-year mentorship under Daniel Strauss, a renowned South African billionaire-mindset author and an active investor in more than 80 startups to date. He has long been a student of authors who study the energy entrepreneurs and their employees need to perform, and QhraalOne is the direct expansion of that study into a company of its own.
Across his entrepreneurial career he has faced a long series of real obstacles, and he treats each one as a working example in the rooms he now leads, not a story left behind.