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Johannesburg

Johannesburg Introductions Collective

Stop cold calling Johannesburg. Get introduced to it.

letsema. The Sesotho and Setswana tradition of neighbours working one person's field together, then moving on to the next.

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What is the Johannesburg Introductions Collective?

A working group of Johannesburg professionals who trade introductions, properly, to people each of them actually knows.

It exists because this city runs on who you know, and the usual alternatives, the breakfast with forty strangers, the LinkedIn message nobody answers, waste a morning you do not have.

Johannesburg's Leading Introducers

These four give more introductions than almost anyone on the platform. That is not a compliment, it is their rank.

Trusted Advocate

Daniel Brauer

Medical cannabis extraction · GET Pharmaceuticals

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Trusted Advocate

Sara Jumbe

Executive assistant and office administrator · Maltix Ltd

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Super Connector

Ruaan van der Walt

Marketing, funnel architecture and web design · E-Cat

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Trusted Advocate

Claudia Archary

Executive assistant, project and office management · Motara Consulting Quantity Surveyors

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So what stops it turning into another spam list?

Nobody can bulk load contacts.Every connection is added by hand, by somebody confirming they know that person. The shortcut simply does not exist.
Nothing sends itself.Each introduction leaves from the member's own inbox or WhatsApp. No robot is writing to anyone in your name.
Takers get found out.Rank on the Trust-O-Meter comes from introductions given and recommendations earned. Someone who only asks stays at the bottom, visibly.
No mutual contact is not a dead end.A member who knows the person is asked directly, with every party copied in, and is free to decline.

Worth a read

Read What do you do when nobody you know knows the person you need to meet?

Most advice on warm introductions assumes you share a mutual contact. This covers what to do when you share none, how to ask a stranger who does know them without being a nuisance, and how to tell whether an introduction actually happened.

Want in?

Talk to one of the four above. They will tell you straight whether it is worth your time.

Letsema is how a whole community's crop got in when no single family could manage it alone. You do not get to skip the other fields and still expect help with yours.

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