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our speakers

Mr Sango Ntsaluba

Mr Ntsaluba is a founding member and Chairman of NMT Capital. He represents NMT Capital in various Boards which include Basil Read, Goldplat Recovery and ELCB. He has vast business experience as a Businessman, a Senior Executive and in the auditing profession with experience that spans over 30 years.

He is an independent board member of Barloworld Limited and chairs its Audit Committee as well as being a member of other committees including the Risk and Sustainability Committee. Mr Ntsaluba serves on various Public Sector Boards such as the National Housing Finance Corporation, where he chairs its Audit Committee in addition to being a member of other committees.

He serves on the Board of Pioneer Foods and is a member of their Audit Committee, Risk and Nominations Committee. Mr Ntsaluba also serves on the board of Kumba Iron Ore and chairs its Audit Committee as well as other committees.

He founded Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo, one of the large Auditing and Accounting firms in South Africa.

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Mr Bongani Khumalo

Professor Bongani Khumalo is the former chief executive of Gidani Limited, the former national lottery operator, now Gidani International. He is a well recognized leader in business as well as the broader socio economic environment.

His work in management and leadership has been recognized by, amongst others, the Institute of people Management (IPM), International Association of Business Communicator (IABC), the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Stellenbosch. Companies and organisations through which Mr Khumalo has served in the past years Eskom, the Presidency, South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Transnet Limited, Wits University and UNISA.

He is also the past Chairman of the UNISA School of Business Leadership, an independent non-executive director of the Boards of Anglo American Platinum as well as an independent non-executive director of the SABC.

Prof Khumalo is a consummate strategist, executive, entrepreneur, company director, transformation champion, humanitarian and a philanthropist.

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Ms Puseletso Modimogale

Ms Modimogale is currently with the SAICA Enterprise Development where they work to develop entrepreneurs focusing on SMMEs and ensuring their sustainability. She has over 22 years experience in health and wellness of body and mind and holds a degree in Somatology.

Ms Modimogale is the CEO of Therapeutic Touch Studio, which provides synergies to addressing both organizational changes and individual based stress management strategies. She is the author of Mind Retirement, a book that promotes self-discovery and personal transformation. She is founder of a movement called Woman Emancipate Yourself Foundation (WEY). She is the 2016 TEDX Talk Speaker and is one of the most sort after life transformation coaches and speakers in her area of expertise.

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Mokgadi Mabela

Mokgadi is a BA Political Studies graduate from the University of Pretoria. After a stint as a bureaucrat at the national department of human settlements, she decided to leave government to start a business.

She is now owner of Native Nosi a beekeeping business based in Polokwane. Mokgadi is keeping the legacy of beekeeping in her family alive. She is a third-generation beekeeper who specialises in organic honey production. She launched The Native Nosi in 2015 with the aim of producing local, quality pure honey, alleviating poverty through job creation and providing rural beekeepers with access to urban markets.

She is ambitious, driven and probably busy as a bee. She has ambitious plans of expanding her enterprise and has in some instances resorted to creative ways of raising funds in order to expand her business, including crowd funding. Currently, beekeeping in South Africa is largely a preserve of the ageing white males, and to ensure food security the industry needs to attract more new young entrants.

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Tshilidzi “Chilli” Matshidzula

Tshilidzi is 2016 Eastern Cape’s Agri SA Toyota Young Farmer of the Year, manages and partly owns a diary operation near Alexandria in the Eastern Cape. He has been instrumental in converting the farm, Little Barnet, from a failed land reform project into a dairy farm with an annual turnover of R 14,5 million.

Chilli matriculated in Thohoyandau, Limpopo, in 2004, attended the Tshwane University of Technology in 2005 and completed a National Diploma in Animal Science and Production. He moved to the Eastern Cape in January 2007. In August 2007, Chilli was offered a management position in a share-milking operation on a land reform farm near Alexandria, Little Barnet.

In October 2007, the first 49 cows were milked. As more pastures were established, the number of cows was increased to 190 in 2009. Fast forward almost a decade and the farm now has over 500 cows that produce 11000 litres of milk a day and has just made history by becoming the first black managed and owned commercial farm to win a top agricultural award in over 50 years.

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Thapelo Maleke

South African Youth Chamber of Commerce (SAYCC)

Current:

Executive Chairman at MALEKE GROUP

Past:

Project Manager - National Youth Development Agency.
Director - Project Management Division at VUKANIKIDS (PTY) LTD.
Manager: Corporate Communication and Marketing - Centre for Leadership Development at the University of Pretoria.

Education:

He studied Education, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business Management, Economics, International Relations, Research Techniques, Project Management, Human Rights, Contemporary African Leadership. Monitoring and Evaluation.

Summary:

He is an Economic Transformation Activist who is working tirelessly and contributing to developing a generation of Young Entrepreneurs who will move Africa forward through innovation and Entrepreneurship.  He has a rich experience in the Youth Entrepreneurship development field as both the Project Manager and as a judge for the SABC 1 Rize Mzansi, Enablis Business Plan Competition, South African Youth Awards, FUTURE100 Awards, Y-StartUp Business Plan Competition, SMARTSTART Challenge and Young Women-in-Business Awards.

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