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A day in the life of a ... Small-business MD

Ziaan Hattingh balances running a training and software development company with family life and competitive archery.

01 February 2012

Ziaan Hattingh’s day begins at 4:30am, when he wakes up and heads off to the gym to ‘keep the vitals strong’, as he puts it. Hattingh is MD of IndigoCube, a Johannesburg-based specialist in business analysis and software development that’s been going for five years now.

Hattingh has had a varied background: 18 months military service in Kimberly, including officer training, a BComm degree from Wits and experience in the banking sector (he was once the youngest branch manager in United Bank at 26), a stint in corporate and structured finance, before going into consulting and software. He is also currently one of the top ten archers in the country. Far too much of our conversation is spent on the ins and outs of archery and it’s clear that the mental discipline of the sport has had an effect, if not directly, on the way he thinks and goes about his business.

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