AfroDroneTek · Gaborone, Botswana

Building the foundation of Africa’s low-altitude economy.

AfroDroneTek builds sovereign airspace infrastructure for African civil aviation regulators — the registration, licensing, authorisation, and oversight layer that turns a drone rulebook into a working drone economy. Denga Redu is the platform. BLAMS is its flagship instance.

Foundation first — then flight

The platform

Denga Redu — the regulator’s own operating system for the low sky.

Not a UTM vendor’s app. A secure platform on which a civil aviation authority administers its drone regulations end-to-end: operators register online, officers adjudicate in a structured inbox, certificates issue digitally, and the sky itself becomes visible. Built natively to the regulation it serves and aligned to the ICAO Model UAS Regulations — hosted on infrastructure the authority controls.

The authority holds the keys. Self-hosted, sovereign, and auditable end to end.
Denga Redu
Shona · “our sky”

The name is the thesis: a nation’s low-altitude airspace is a national commons, administered by its own authority, on its own infrastructure — never a lane rented from a foreign vendor. One platform, instanced per country, owned where it runs.

AfroDroneTek company Denga Redu platform BLAMS instance · Botswana
Running today — at production grade

Eight capabilities. Live now.

Everything here runs today — not a mockup, not a roadmap. What you see in a demonstration is the real system.

Online operator registration

The public front door to a compliant drone economy.

Officer adjudication inbox

Review, request, approve or reject — every action attributed.

Digital Certificates of Registration

A QR code any inspector verifies on a phone, in the field, in seconds.

Regulator-grade audit trail

Every event logged, timestamped, exportable; nightly backups.

Live operations map

Remote-ID telemetry (ASTM F3411) rendering real traffic over a national map.

Digital geofences

The authority’s airspace rules — drawn, stored, enforced in software.

Secure field endpoints

Hardened operator terminals reaching the platform over encrypted channels.

Decision notifications

Operators informed automatically; nothing lost to the post.

The flagship instance · Botswana

BLAMS — the Botswana Low Altitude Management System.

Statutory Instrument 71 of 2024 gives Botswana a modern drone rulebook — and with it a substantial administrative workload. BLAMS carries it digitally: the first national instance of Denga Redu, built in Gaborone to Botswana’s own regulations, running today at production grade.

Sovereign by design
Self-hosted in Botswana on infrastructure the authority controls. Data protection assessment and threat model completed.
Pays for itself
Funded from the regulatory fee flow it administers and grows — an administration engine, not a cost centre.
Built here
Purpose-built in Gaborone, at a fraction of foreign-vendor cost, with local support in the same time zone.
Continuity assured
Source-code escrow, run-off obligations, and an open-technology core: continuity never depends on any one person.
The company

AfroDroneTek. Built in Gaborone, for the continent.

AfroDroneTek is a registered business of Girdle Tech (Pty) Ltd, Botswana. We build the digital foundation of the low-altitude economy — the layer of trust that makes a drone economy safe, legal, and governable — as sovereign infrastructure a regulator owns, not a service it rents.

Dr. Taboka Gerald Peswa
Founder, AfroDroneTek

A physician building the infrastructure of the low sky. The idea began on hospital night shifts, with a blood run a drone could have flown — and with the realisation that the delivery drone was never the hard part. The hard part is everything around it: registration, licensing, airspace rules a machine can read, an audit trail a regulator can stand behind. So he built that.

Get in touch

Let’s put the low sky under sovereign command.

For regulators, operators, funders, and partners. The fastest way in is a short working-level demonstration of the live system.

A 25-minute demonstration.

The live system for your Aviation Safety / RPAS team — at your offices, or on our hardware. No procurement commitment. No preparation required from your side.

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