BUSINESS LEADERSHIP SOUTH AFRICA - Key Persons


Bonga Mokoena

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • BDO As CEO
Bonga Mokoena joined BDO as CEO in May 2022 taking over from Mark Stewart at the end of his term. He is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA),

Busisiwe Mavuso - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Executive Director
  • Chartered Accountant With the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants
Busisiwe Mavuso is the Chief Executive Officer of Business Leadership South Africa, a position she holds since 1 July 2019. She previously held the position of Chief Operations Officer at the BLSA from November 2017. Before joining BLSA, Mavuso was the Managing Director of the Black Management Forum (BMF), an organisation she joined in May 2009 and served in positions of Chief Financial Officer and Operations Director. She is a non-executive director on the boards of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Resultant Finance (a PiC investee company) and BMF investment (Pty) Ltd. Mavuso started her career in Finance in 1995 in the banking industry and has worked for various companies in industries ranging from training, consulting, telecoms and the healthcare industry (Netcare) over the past 23 years. Mavuso is a Chartered Accountant with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants in the United Kingdom (ACCA-UK) and holds a Master's degree in Business Leadership from Unisa SBL; a Postgraduate Qualification in business Management from GIBS and a B Compt from Unisa She is known as an advocate for inclusive socio-economic growth, transformation and people's development.

Current Nolitha

Job Titles:
  • President of the Minerals Council of South Africa

Dr Adrian Enthoven

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Executive Chairman of Yellowwoods
Dr Adrian Enthoven is Executive Chairman of Yellowwoods, an international private investment group. He is responsible for the African portfolio of insurance and hospitality investments. He serves on the boards of the group's South African based businesses, including chairing the Hollard Insurance Group. He is involved in initiatives addressing youth employment, education, social justice and the arts. He is Deputy Chairman of the Solidarity Fund and serves on the board Citizens ZA, Business Leadership South Africa and the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. He is co-chair of the Millennium Labour Council and a member of the advisory boards of MISTRA, CASAC and the African Centre for Cities. He was educated at Michaelhouse School and at Oxford University (BA Hons in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and PhD in Political Science). He is married with four children.

Dr Leila Fourie

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
With over 25 years of international experience, primarily in financial services, Leila Fourie has served on multiple boards and held senior roles in banking, capital markets and payments. Leila was appointed as CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange effective 1 October 2019. Leila also currently holds the role of Co-chair for the United Nations Global Investors for Sustainable Development convened by the UN Secretary General. Prior to this role, Leila served as Executive responsible for Consumer Finance at Australia's largest bank, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and served as the NSW Vice President of the Economic Society of Australia and on the Board Audit Committee of Lifeline Australia. Before this, Leila she held the role of CEO of the Australian Payments Network. Before moving to Australia, Leila served on the Board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as Executive Director. Leila previously worked for one of South Africa's largest banks, Standard Bank as Card Division Managing Director. During this time, she served as Chairman on the board of Diners Club and Board Member on Discover's Chicago-based Diners Club International Advisory board. Leila started in Standard Bank's Investment Bank as Global Director Credit analytics, capital and portfolio management for SA, UK, Hong Kong, Russia, Brazil and Argentina. Leila has a PhD in Economic and Financial Sciences and won the Economic Society South Africa Founders' award in 2012 for best Masters Economics thesis in the country. Leila has published several articles in academic journals and actively advocates for policy development in various sectors. Leila is an active rock climber, mountaineer and cyclist and plays the piano in her spare time.

Lungisa Fuzile

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Chief Executive of the Standard Bank of South Africa
Lungisa is currently the Chief Executive of the Standard Bank of South Africa (SBSA and he is responsible for the bank's operations in South Africa since January 2018. Previously, he worked in the Public Service in what was to become a 20 year career, culminating in his role as Director General at the National Treasury. He sits on the Standard Bank of South Africa Board, the Stanbic Botswana Board and the Standard Bank Group Leadership Council. He chairs the South Africa Executive Committee and its appropriate sub committees in addition to being a director of the Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation. Lungisa is also the Chairperson of the Banking Association of South Africa ( Board, a member of the Business Leadership South Africa ( Board as well as a Council member for the Walter Sisulu University.

Michael Katz

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director

Mike Brown

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Deputy Chairman
  • Chief Executive of Nedbank Group Limited
Mike Brown is Chief Executive of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited. He was previously the Chief Financial Officer of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited. Prior to that he headed Property Finance at Nedbank and before that he was an Executive Director of BoE Limited. Brief Career History: After attending St John's College (Harare) and completing schooling at Maritzburg College, Mike graduated from Natal University (Pietermaritzburg) in 1987 where he received the Jack Armstrong award as the best final year student. Post having passed his final qualifying examinations as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, Mike completed his articles at Deloitte & Touche (Durban) specialising in financial services where NBS was a major client. After articles, Mike worked for Deloitte & Touche in the USA and then spent a year working in London before returning to Deloitte & Touche Durban as an Audit Manager. Mike left Deloitte to join NBS Treasury shortly thereafter in the role of Manager: Special Projects. He later moved to NBS Corporate and was instrumental in setting up the Structured Finance and Private Equity divisions within NBS Corporate, which developed into significant profit contributors to the Group. Mike led the merger of NBS Corporate and the commercial industrial lending division of BoE Private Bank and was appointed as Deputy Managing Director of BoE Corporate and then Managing Director of BoE Corporate as well as a main Board Director of BoE Limited. Post the merger of BoE and Nedbank in 2002/3 , Mike was appointed to the role of Managing Director: Property & Asset Finance and oversaw the complex four-way merger of the commercial and industrial property divisions of BoE/Nedbank/NIB and Cape of Good Hope to create the market-leading Property Finance business in South Africa. In June 2004, Mike was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Nedbank Group and was an integral part of the team under Tom Boardman responsible for the design and execution of the successful turnaround of Nedbank Group. In March 2009, Mike was appointed Chief Executive (CE) designate, to succeed Tom Boardman who retired from the Group in February 2010. On 1 March 2010, Mike assumed the role of Chief Executive of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited. He concluded his two year tenure as Chairman of The Banking Association of South Africa on 25 June 2020 and is currently the Deputy Chairman of Business Leadership South Africa. In 2020 Mike was awarded the Sunday Times Business Leader of the Year award in South Africa, an award based on the outcome of the votes of the CEOs of the top 100 companies listed on the JSE.

Neal Froneman

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Executive Director and CEO of Sibanye - Stillwater
Neal Froneman was appointed executive director and CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater on 1 January 2013. Over the past ten years he has led the transformation of Sibanye-Stillwater from a 1.5Moz South Africa-based gold miner into a leading diversified metals producer with an international operating footprint. The company now ranks as the world's top primary producer of PGM metals with a leading position in the PGM recycling industry. Under Neal's leadership, Sibanye-Stillwater has now started building an international portfolio of battery metal operations along with growing involvement in the circular economy and tailings reprocessing businesses. Neal's career spans nearly 40 years during which time he worked at Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields), Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) and JCI Limited. In April 2003, Neal was appointed CEO of Aflease Gold Limited (Aflease Gold), which, through a series of reverse take-overs, became Gold One International Limited (Gold One) in May 2009. He was primarily responsible for the creation of Uranium One Incorporated (Uranium One) from the Aflease Gold uranium assets. During this period, he was CEO of Aflease Gold and Uranium One until his resignation from Uranium One in February 2008. He held the CEO position at Gold One until his appointment at Sibanye-Stillwater. Since 2021, he has been appointed as a member of the Wits Foundation Board of Governors. He also serves on the Councils of international mining bodies including the ICMM and the World Gold Council.

Nolitha Fakude

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Chairman of Anglo American 's Management Board
Nolitha Fakude is the Chairman of Anglo American's Management Board in South Africa as well as the Group Director responsible for South Africa on Anglo American plc's Group Management Committee (GMC). Nolitha sits on the Anglo American Platinum Board as a Non-Executive Director and previously served on the Board of Anglo American plc from 2017 to 2019. Nolitha brings to Anglo American significant management experience gained in various functional leadership roles across the oil and energy, chemicals, financial services and retail industries. Nolitha has worked in and held senior executive positions in various industries and sectors including Retail, Financial Services, Mining and Oil and Gas. Until 2016, Nolitha served as an Executive Director at Sasol Limited and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Strategy and Sustainability. Nolitha was the President of the Black Management Forum (BMF) from 2003 to 2006 and its Managing Director between 2000 and 2003. She now serves as a member of the Council of Elders, and is a respected authority on transformation and empowerment in South Africa. Current Nolitha serves as the President of the Minerals Council of South Africa (MINCOSA), Non-Executive Director of the JSE Limited and Vice President of the International Woman's Forum South Africa (IWFSA). She is a Patron of Guild Cottage home for girls. Her previous board roles include serving as Deputy Chair and Lead Independent Director of Datacentrix Holdings Limited, Chairperson of Sasol Mining and as a Non-Executive Director of Harmony Gold Mines, Woolworths Holdings and Discovery Holdings, amongst others. Her accolades include: The 2004 Most Influential Businesswoman by Financial Mail, Impala Platinum Young Entrepreneur Award and the National Honor by the Golden Key Society of the University of Johannesburg. Nolitha has led from the front and has not been shy to tackle the tough issues that the mining sector and Minerals Council have to deal with. She is playing a pathfinding leadership role in encouraging structural reform in government to unlock the real inclusive growth potential of the mining sector. Nolitha is an author of a book titled, "Boardroom Dancing - Transformation stories from a Corporate Activist", published in 2019. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Psychology from the University of Fort Hare and completed the Senior Executive Programme at Harvard Business School in the United States.

Nonkululeko Nyembezi

Job Titles:
  • Independent Non - Executive Director
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Chairman of the BLSA Board of Directors
Nonkululeko Nyembezi is the Chairman of the BLSA board of directors and current Chief Executive Officer of Ichor Coal N.V., an international mining company focusing on thermal coal production in South Africa. The company owns and operates its own coal resources with customers in South Africa and beyond. In addition, Ichor Coal holds minority positions in other coal mining companies. Ms Nyembezi was previously Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal South Africa, the largest steel producer on the African continent and subsidiary of the ArcelorMittal Group, which in turn is the largest steel producer in the world. Ms Nyembezi has served as an independent non-executive director on numerous boards in both the public and private sectors. She currently serves as non-executive chairman of Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, the JSE and Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Limited.

Shameel Joosub

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Non - Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Vodacom Group Limited / Chairman of the Vodacom Group Executive Committee & Vodacom ( Pty ) Limited
Member of the Vodafone Group Executive Committee Member of the Vodacom Group Social & Ethics Committee Shameel joined Vodacom / Vodafone in 1994 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Vodacom Group Limited, a position he has held since 2012. He has extensive telco experience having operated at a senior level in various companies across the group for the last 22 years, including Managing Director at Vodacom South Africa and Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone Spain. Shameel holds board positions at Vodacom Group Ltd, Safaricom Plc, Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications S.A.E and a number of subsidiary boards across the group. He also sits on the board of Business Leadership South Africa. He was appointed to the Vodafone Group Exco in April 2020, and is responsible for all its African operations. He holds an Honours degree in Accounting Science from the University of South Africa, an MBA from the University of Southern Queensland and an Advanced Management Program Certificate from Harvard University.

Shirley Machaba

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • CEO for PricewaterhouseCoopers
Shirley is CEO for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Southern Africa and Regional Senior Partner, Southern Africa from 1 July 2019. She has been a Partner in PwC Assurance Services practice for 18 years. She is a Chartered Accountant and qualified Chartered Director Southern Africa (CD (SA)), and has over 28 years internal, external audit, risk management, compliance and governance experience within private and public sector across all industries. She has published several articles on internal audit in the professional journals of the IPFA, JUTA and IIA. She is a renowned speaker and has presented at National, Regional level and International conferences. She served as a board member of the IIA SA and chair of its Audit, Finance and Risk Committee for 6 years before becoming President, a role she diligently played for two terms, ie 4 years. She served as Chief Audit Executive (CAE) for National Department of Justice from 1999 until March 2004. Before her CEO role she served in various leadership roles within PwC including the following: PwC South Africa Governance, Risk and Internal Audit Leader: July 2006 - June 2009 PwC Southern Africa Governance, Risk and Internal Audit Leader: July 2009 - June 2014 PwC Africa Governance, Risk and Internal Audit Leader and a member of the Global Leadership Team: July 2014- June 2019 PwC Government & Public Sector Leader and a member of the Global Leadership Team : July 2016 to June 2019 Partner-in-Charge - PwC Menlyn Office : July 2016 to June 2018 PwC Africa Diversity & Inclusion Leader and a member of the Global Leadership Team : July 2018 to June 2019 PwC SA Governing Board Chair : October 2012 to June 2018 PwC Africa Governance Board Member : October 2012 to June 2018 PwC Global board Member : March 2015 to June 2017 She served on the PwC Global Government and Public Sector Leadership as well as the Global Diversity and Inclusion Leadership team. She is currently Partner-in-Charge of the Waterfall Office since 1 July 2018. She serves on the PwC Africa Leadership team and is chairperson of PwC Southern Africa Leadership team. She has been proactively involved in the internal audit profession at local, regional and global levels. She has proactively served on IIA local, global and regional structures including the recent one as Trustee member of the Internal Audit Foundation. She served as past past President of IIA SA and served on the IIA SA board since June 2015 until 30 July 2019. She was a member of various committees of the IIA SA board while serving as President, past President and past past President. She served as chair of the Institute Relations Committee (IRC) since July 2017 until June 2020, an IIA Global Board Committee where she has been a member for 6 years. She served as a member of African Federation of Institutes of Internal Auditors (AFIIA) representing Southern Africa, then Secretary General. She is currently a member of Board of Trustee of Internal Audit Foundation, an IIA global organisation since March 2020. She has presented on Diversity and Inclusion matters locally, regionally and globally, including at Africa WEF in Cape Town and UN Women side events in New York as well as at the Forbes Woman Africa Leading Women's Summit, the Standard Bank Top Women Leaders Conference and IWFSA women leadership summit. She serves on the Judging Panel for the Gender Mainstream Awards since 2018. She has had an opportunity to write publications and co-present with Prof Mervyn King on governance, risk and internal audit matters locally and regionally. She serves on Africa Initiative Advisory Council - an IIA Global initiative to assist African countries Institutes of Internal Auditors in advocating Internal Audit profession. She is a thought leader and trusted advisor on matters of Governance, Risk and Controls. She is currently an ambassador of Standard Bank Top Women. She also serves as judge for Standard Bank Top Women Empowerment awards as well as BlackBark Rising Stars awards. She is passionate about education and people progression in general in particular youth and women. She is a mentor to most youth and women aspiring to leadership with the aim of developing future leaders locally, regionally and globally. She participated in Partner Development Leadership (PDLP) by GIBS, PwC global Network Key Talent Pool (NKTP) and Reinventing the Future (RtF) programmes and she is now a fully fledged Futurist. She has received several accolades as follows: In 2002 she was honoured by the Institute of Internal Auditors in recognition of her excellent achievement in the development and growth of internal auditing in the Public Sector. In 2003, she was named Internal Auditor of the Year by the IIA SA. Shirley was honoured by the BWA in June 2006 with the Regional Businesswoman of the year award. She was also honoured the outstanding contribution award by IPFA in 2004. She was a finalist of the "Africa's Most Influential Woman in Business and in Government" during 2013. She was nominated finalist of the "Top Black Female Leader of The Year" by Top Media Communications during 2014. She was honoured by African Woman Chartered Accountants as "Audit Partner of the year" in 2016. She was also honoured by Black Management Forum as "manager of the year" again in 2016. She was honoured "Regional Businesswoman of The Year" award by BWA in 2006. She was honoured by South African Professional Services Awards with the "Big 4 Professional of the Year" as well as being named the overall "Woman Professional of the Year" in February 2018. She is the nominee of "Businesswoman of the Year" for 2018 by BWA. She was honoured by South African Professional Services Awards for the "Accounting Industry Leader of the Year" and "Overall Professional of the Year" in 2020. She was nominated finalist for the "Role Model of the Year" by Gender Mainstream Award in September 2020.She was honoured by African Business Leadership Award (AABLA) for "Africa Business Woman of The Year" in June 2022. She was also honoured with the "AWCA Luminary Award" at the AWCA 20 th anniversary celebration in August 2022. She was recently honoured by ABASA with ABASA women lifetime Achievement Award" during September 2022. Her memberships include: South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Black Management Forum (BMF) Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA) Business Women's Association (BWA) African Women Chartered Accountants (AWCA) Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) Member of International Women Forum South Africa (IWFSA) Member of Africa Advisory Council, an Initiative by IIA Global Institute of Directors South Africa (IoDSA) Member - Regional World Economic Forum (WEF) Board and Audit Committee member - American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Board and Audit Committee member - Business Leaders South Africa (BLSA) Board of Trustee member - Internal Audit Foundation (IAF) an IIA global governance structure Member - CEOs Champions initiative on climate action - National Business Initiative (NBI) initiative

Vivien McMenamin

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Chief Executive Officer of Mondi South Africa
Vivien McMenamin is the Chief Executive Officer of Mondi South Africa since September 2017. She joined the Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) board of directors in May 2023.