Sabi is the innovation director at the DG Murray Trust, a strategic social investor that works towards building a South Africa where all people can fulfil their potential. Her work focuses on investing in human potential from the start, specifically in early childhood and in the foundation phase of education. Sabi held a joint-post as a departmental lecturer in African history the University of Oxford. Previously, she was a lecturer at Stanford University's Bing Centre for Overseas Studies, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research (FHISER), a Machel-Mandela Fellow at the Brenthurst Foundation and a consultant at the Department of Political Affairs in the African Union Commission. She has also worked at the African Leadership Academy, the Africa List at the CDC Group, and the Peace Research Institute of Oslo. As an avid public speaker and advocate for women's rights, she has spoken at the African Union Summit and at the United Nations Commission on the status of women. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, a Mandela Scholar at Amherst College, and a Senior Fellow of the Moremi Initiative for Women's Leadership in Africa. She obtained her master's degree and Ph.D. in history and African studies respectively at the University of Oxford.