This week we feature content from who’s who South
Africa. As we continue with Women’s
Month celebrations, the below blog post touches on the most influential
businesswomen in South African according to Mail and Guardian.
Dawn Mokhobo is an Independent Non-Executive Director for
Allied Electronics Corporation Limited. She was the first black woman to be
elected to the management board of Eskom. She is the Chairperson of African
International Advisors and the Ombudsman Council for Long Term Insurance and
Executive Deputy Chairperson of Partnership Investments, a woman-controlled BEE
enterprise. She won the Businesswoman of the Year award in 1993.
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| Dawn Mokhobo |
Salukazi Dakile Hlongwane is Chief Executive of Nozala
Investments. Nozala Investments is a leading investment company with interests
ranging from hospitals and education to construction materials and telecoms.
She is former Assistant General Manager of Specialised Finance at BoE, and
Senior Manager of the structured finance unit and Former Senior Project Officer
at the Lesotho National Development Corporation. She is also the Director of
Educor, Tsogo Sun, Eskom Enterprises, and the CEO of Eqstra Holdings Limited.
Joan Joffe is a Lead Independent Non-Executive Director of
Datacentrix Holdings Limited. She has been in the IT and telecoms industry
since 1960. In 1977 she started Joffe Associates, where she sold the company 10
years later. She is a founding member of broad-based women empowerment group
Nozala Investments.
Christine Ramon is an Executive Director and the Chief
Financial Officer of Sasol Limited. She is a member of the risk, safety, health
and environment committee. She is also a former Non-Executive Director of
Transnet Limited. Ramon is a Chartered Accountant and completed the Senior
Executive Programme at Harvard Business School in conjunction with Wits
Business School. She currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Financial
Reporting Standards Council in South Africa.
Santie Botha is the Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University. Botha also serves as the Independent Non-Executive
Director of Tiger Brands Limited.
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| Susan Botha |
Su Birch is the CEO Wines of South Africa, the industry
organisation responsible for the promotion of all South African wine in export
markets. Birch is former Marketing Manager of Capespan.
Wendy Luhabe is a South African businesswoman, social
entrepreneur and author. She gained ten years of national and international
corporate experience with Vanda Cosmetics and for the BMW Group. In 1991,
Luhabe founded Bridging the Gap, her first exercise in social entrepreneurship.
In 1994, she pioneered the founding of Women Investment Portfolio Holdings,
which listed on the JSE in 1999. In 1999 she was also honoured as one of the 50
Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World. She was inaugurated as Chancellor of
the University of Johannesburg in September 2006.
Totsie Memela Khambule is Managing Director of Postbank, in
2006. She joined First Rand in 2001 and prior to moving to Postbank, was CEO of
customer services and retention for First National Bank home loans division.
Mamphela Ramphele is the Chairperson of Circle Capital
Ventures Limited. She is the former Chairperson of Goldfields Limited. She is
also an academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid
activist. She was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement,
along with Steve Biko. Mamphela Ramphele was voted 55th in the Top 100 Great
South Africans in 2004. She is currently serves as a Director of Medi-Clinic
Corporation Limited and Business Partners. In February 2013 she officially
launched a new political party platform called Agang, which is Sesotho for
‘build’.
Established in 1992, Jenna Clifford Designs is a brand which
is synonymous with quality, style and luxury. The company originally focussed
exclusively on jewellery design, but today has grown to include four innovative
brands: Jenna Clifford Fine Jewellery, Renaissance Jewellery by Jenna Clifford,
Jenna Clifford Homeware and Jenna Clifford Trophies. By adding a personal touch
to the purchase of jewellery, Jenna Clifford Designs has differentiated itself
from any other jewellery designers and manufacturers. The jewellery is still
designed by Clifford herself, who is assisted by highly qualified designers who
have received years of training, honing their skills to create jewellery which
carries the signature Jenna Clifford style.
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| Jenna Clifford |
Libby Lloyd started out as a journalist, working mostly in
radio for Capital Radio in South Africa, National Public Radio in the United
States and BBC Ireland. CEO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency. She
was chosen as Vodacom Media Woman of the Year in 2005.
Khanyi Ntsaluba is the Director of Mvelaphanda Platinum
Limited. She served as an external audit committee member for the Gauteng
provincial government.
Financial Director of Mvelaphanda Resources
Phuti Mahanyele is Director of Energy at Shanduka Group.
Prior to joining Shanduka Group, she headed the Project Finance South Africa
unit at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Phuti Malabie was listed as
one of the “Top 50 women in the world to watch in 2008” by the Wall Street
Journal and awarded the “Most Influential Woman in Government and Business by
Financial Services” in 2009.
Khanyi Dhlomo is the Managing Director of Ndalo Media, which
she founded in 2007. She is also the founder of DestinyConnect and the Founding
Editor of Destiny Magazine. Prior to beginning her own media company, Dhlomo
served as editor of True Love magazine for eight years. She was named most
influential woman in South African Media by The Media Magazine in 2003 and made
the 2011 Forbes list of 20 Young Power Women in Africa.
Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS
Aviation, a 100 percent black female owned aviation company that provides
personal and professional flights to global destinations. In 2007, Sambo was
named a Leader of Tomorrow by Fortune magazine, and in 2008, Sambo featured in
the World Bank report entitled Doing Business: Women in Africa.
MD of SRS Aviation
Precious Moli-Motsepe is an Executive Chairperson for
African Fashion International. Her company owns and hosts Fashion weeks in
South Africa. AFI's mission is to promote and develop South African and African
fashion and to bring it into the mainstream. Through partnerships with various
companies and government, AFI brings together fashion designers, media,
retailers and consumers. This gives fashion designers media publicity and
orders from retail buyers and the public. She is also a Chairperson for Leisureworx.
Moloi-Motsepe was a speaker on 'Women and Health in the Workplace' at the
Global Summit of Women held in South Africa in 2000. She has worked in public
hospitals in Johannesburg and Pretoria, specializing mainly in Paediatrics. She
then went to Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. where her interest in women's health
first began. She holds a Diploma in Reproductive Health and Child Health.
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| Precious Moli-Motsepe |
Lulu Letlape is a Communications Practitioner and business
leader; Executive Director for Mercedes-Benz South Africa (Proprietary)
Limited. Former Group Executive for Corporate Communication and Brand
Management at Telkom.
Adria Greene is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
Lawpoint. The World Economic Forum named Greene a Young Global Leader
(2009).She is a Founding Member of the South African Legal Process Outsourcing
Association and is an active member of a number of boards and non-profit
organizations.
Tania Holgate is the Sole Member Zulugas Fuel and Transport.
Zulugas Fuel and Transport was formerly known as Zululand Gas and Outdoor, the
company name was changed in 2006. Holgate was a finalist in the 2008
Businesswoman of the Year competition.
Portia Maurice is Chief Officer of Corporate Affairs at
Vodacom Group Limited. She is also a member of the Vodacom Group Executive
Committee. Maurice was previously Vodacom’s Chief Officer of Public Affairs and
Sustainability. She has been Chief Executive Officer of environmental
management company Tedcor and Nehanda Group, a women’s investment company of
which she remains a non-executive board member. She spent five years as a
General Manager at the MTN Group. Maurice is a Non-Executive Director of Ga Ra
Geng Travel. She is a former journalist, she has worked in a range of media
houses including The Argus, Mail & Guardian, Sowetan and the South African
Broadcasting Corporation.
Leigh Meinert is a co-founder and Managing Director of the
Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA), a private not-for-profit
provider of higher education based in Cape Town. TSiBA offers emerging leaders
an opportunity to study towards an innovative and enriched business degree that
is focused on entrepreneurship and leadership.
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| Leigh Meinert |
Maud Motanyane is the Chair of Kagiso Media Limited. She is
the founding editor of Tribute magazine.
Kerrin Myres Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at
Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. She was the founder and
CEO of Resonance (a research-based consultancy which specialises in the design
and evaluation of entrepreneurial development programmes). Myres also
established the Richard Branson School of Entrepreneurship at Cida City Campus.
