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South African rental and design company Blackmotion invests in Robe

Blackmotion Production, founded and headed by Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini, is a technical production and rental company based in Kew, Johannesburg, South Africa. The company has over 100 Robe moving lights in its inventory, and these fixtures are constantly busy servicing a range of corporate, business, and social events.

Backmotion invested in Robe right from the start. In 2005, and for the next four years Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini was initially focussed on lighting design work. The trajectory shifted around 2009 when he started purchasing kit, and the first moving lights - six Robe ColorSpot 250E ATs - joined the company then. Backmotion continued investing in Robe over the years, the latest acquisition being additional LEDBeam 150s, and through all this business and interaction, has forged a great partnership with Robe’s southern Africa distributor, DWR.

Robe products currently in the Blackmotion inventory include LEDWash 300s, Pointes, Spiiders, Robe LEDBeam 100s and Patt 2013s in addition to the LEDBeam 150s, and Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini is looking forward to getting his hands on some of the new LedPointes, stating, “of course everything going forward will be LED”.

Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini spends around forty percent of his time designing lighting shows for Blackmotion Designs. His career as a lighting professional started in television and film lighting, and much of Blackmotion’s work is still in this sector, together with a mix of agency work for business events and corporates to whom they offer technical solutions. In addition to lighting, they offer audio, LED, rigging, staging, and streaming services.

Kagiso Moima Wa Masimini and his team work throughout South Africa, and in several other African countries via a network of partners - a business model that allows them to scale up and innovate as needed. For specific shows, they will bring in other LDs.

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