Nikilitha Mantungwa is a 22 year old South-African music supervisor and entrepreneur who founded Kopton Music in 2023. Her career began while working as a sync licensing agent during her gap year after high school, where she landed her first placement on Netflix's 3rd season of Blood & Water, which inspired her pursuit of a career in the music industry.

 

By the time Kopton Music was founded, Nikilitha was completing her 2nd year in a Bachelor of Music degree, where she majored in Music Education, Classical Guitar, Arts Management and Music Technology. During her studies, she played percussion in the NWU Symphony Orchestra in 2023, before getting elected as the Head of Marketing in 2024 and re-elected in 2025. In 2024, she was selected to be a panelist on the youth advisory board of Girl Effect, which is an NGO founded by Nike in 2008. 

 

Since inception, Kopton Music has doubled its roster size as well as its services by extension into music publishing, consultation and music supervision with clients such as Netflix, Showmax, Weetbix, Astron Energy, MTN and DSTV. In addition to this, Kopton Music had its first international partnership in the United Kingdom with Standard Music Library and FOLD Music, in the form of a sub-publishing deal for all African territories.

 

She is dedicated to nurturing the upcoming talent of South-Africa by showcasing music that audiences might not have heard before through music licensing in Television, Film and commercials. As such, Kopton Music got its name as "The Home of Sound"!

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Nikilitha is currently completing the final year of her studies (Honours) at the University of North-West and is working on a research project related to the South-African music industry.