Top Women in Business: South Africa

Most influential businesswomen in South African according to Mail and Guardian

Dawn Mokhobo: Dawn Mokhobo 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.
Executive Deputy Chairperson of Partnership Investments

Salukazi Dakile-Hlongwane: 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.
CEO of Nozala Investments

Joan Joffe: Joan Joffe 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.
South African Businesswoman

Christine Ramon: 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.
Chief Financial Officer of Sasol Limited

Susan Botha: Susan Botha is the Chancellor of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Botha also serves as an Executive Director of Management Services at MTN Group.
Executive Director for Marketing of MTN Group

Su Birch: 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.
CEO Wines of South Africa

Wendy Luhabe: 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 she 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.
Co-founder of WIPHOLD

Totsie Memela-Khambule: 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.
MD of Postbank

Mamphela Ramphele: Ramphele is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She was one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), along with Steve Biko. Mamphela Ramphele was voted 55th in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004. She is currently chairperson of Circle Capital Ventures and serves as a Dreictor of Medi-Clinic Corporation Limited and Business Partners.
Chairperson of Goldfields

Jenna Clifford: 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.
Founder of Jenna Clifford (Pty) Ltd

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