Sakhumzi Maqubela has gradually out-grown the image of simply being a successful entrepreneur rather has evolved into a role model for many youth as well as professionals itching to start a business. In an era of BBEEE wherein many youth perceive wealth creation as entitlement/free shares by large corporations or tenders by govt.

Sakhumzi is a trail-blazer for his generation who were born in 1976 most of whom missed out on tertiary education because of disrupted township schools as well as police brutality during 80s & 90s. The generation of township-based entrepreneurs prior to Sakhumzi are luminaries like Herman Mashaba, Alex Polokwane, and Monguni Ngema.

This trail-blazing role has not gone unnoticed, resulting in extensive interest by credible media platforms such as:

 Mango In-flight Magazine
 British Airways In-flight Magazine
 Destiny MAN Magazine
 Black Business Quarterly
 SABC TV & Radio
 Radio 702
 ETV/eNCA (Against All Odds)
 Soweto-TV (10YR Special Anniversary)

Formal requests for public speaking as motivation to emerging entrepreneurs with highlights as off:
 Citi Bank
 Deloitte & Touché
 Alan Gray
 Gibbs
 Univ Jhb
 WITS Business School (Young Global Leaders Forum, a subsidiary of World Economic Forum).