Capability travels. Recognition should too.
The people, the experience and the cross-cultural perspective behind Bantu Agency.
A CV tells you where someone has been.
It rarely tells you what they can do.
Bantu weighs what you can do, not where you learned to do it.
Built across continents. Close to the ground in each.
Bantu Agency is African-Australian owned, with established roots in Perth, a home in Lusaka and a hub taking shape in the UAE. That footprint is not a sales map. It means that when someone’s experience crosses a border, there is somebody at both ends who knows what it is worth.
Bantu’s experience is concentrated where it runs deepest: mining and resources, recruited across Australia and southern Africa. Technology hiring is growing in Australia, and the new UAE hub opens into construction, energy, aviation, banking and hospitality.
Bantu began with a problem Harriet kept seeing.
Zambian-born and Perth-based, Harriet spent more than ten years in human resources across mining and civil construction — long enough to watch capable people arrive in a new market and start over, their experience discounted because it was earned somewhere else. She started Bantu to stop it happening.
Local knowledge, not a head office view.
Every market Bantu works in has Bantu people in it. That is the difference between recruiting into a country and recruiting from within one.
Australia
Perth-based and established, with the employer relationships that take years to build.
South Africa
A growing reach into South African markets, built on existing regional relationships.
UAE
The newest hub, opening into construction, energy, aviation, banking and hospitality.
What Bantu is for.
Our vision
To shape a world of work where people are recognised for their capability, given fair access to opportunity and empowered to build careers that reflect their true potential.
Our mission
To connect capable people with the right opportunities through recruitment that is fair, authentic and locally informed, while helping organisations build stronger teams with talent they can trust.
The people accountable for it.
Bantu Agency’s directors, across the markets it works in.
Harriet Banda
Managing Director
Perth, Australia
Harriet leads Bantu’s vision and growth across its markets. Drawing on her HR, recruitment and mining experience, she is building Bantu around a belief that capability deserves recognition and opportunity should be created fairly.
Mike Hampinda
Operations Director
Lusaka, Zambia
Mike leads Bantu’s operational delivery in Africa, supporting the systems, people and processes behind consistent recruitment delivery. He helps translate Bantu’s strategy into reliable execution across its growing regional operations.
Ilitongo Lubinga
Director of CSR
Lusaka, Zambia
Ilitongo leads Bantu’s social responsibility agenda, connecting business growth with meaningful impact. He helps ensure Bantu’s commitment to opportunity extends beyond recruitment to the people and communities connected to its work.
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