Our People

The Board

daphneDaphne Mashile-Nkosi (Chair)

the chairperson of WDB Investment Holdings and the deputy chairperson of the WDB Trust where she was a founding member and a development officer for WDB Micro Finance, assisting women to access financial
resources in the rural areas of South Africa.

She is also.a founder member, shareholder and director of Temoso Technologies. Mashile-Nkosi serves on the
boards of Eyesizwe Coal, Nuworld Logistics and Thari Mining. She is also a shareholder of Cellsaf, one of the companies which have a share at Cell C, and also chairs the Mpumalanga Gaming Board.

Currently, she is the chairperson of Kalagadi Manganese. Mashile-Nkosi was nominated by WDB to study development economics in Nagoya, Japan.


faithFaith Khanyile

Faith Khanyile has a BA (Hons) in Economics (Cum laude) from Wheaton College Norton, MA, USA, and
a Masters in Business Administration (MBA)-Finance Bentley Graduate School of Business, Waltham, MA, USA. She belonged to the Massachusetts Economics Society
which is a society that recognises achievers in this field. Currently, Khanyile is a director of structured debt finance
with Standard Bank.

She is the chairperson of the structured debt finance equity forum which is instrumental in the promotion of
black economic empowerment and transformation within SCMB and a member of the Standard Bank’s credit committee. From March 1995 to December 2000, Khanyile worked for private equity fund manager Brait Capital Partners as an investment analyst.

In the latter part of 1998, Khanyile was seconded, full time, to WDB Investment Holdings. She was instrumental in the establishment of the company as well as the necessary investment structures.
Her main responsibility was to make investments and to manage key strategic relationships.

Khanyile is currently a director of the following companies: Uthingo Management Services where she is chairperson of its audit and finance committee, member of social responsibility committee and the Uthingo Trust; BP South Africa; and Adcorp Holdings. She is also a South African Meteorological Services committee member.


audreyAudrey Mokhobo

Audrey Mokhobo is the chief executive of El- Cubed Millenim Solutions and executive director at African
Access Holdings, a company focusing on the procurement and distribution of goods and logistics (in the education sector), property development, facilities management and ITC.

She is responsible for the strategic direction of the
company and looks after the property portfolio. Until November 2003, she was a general manager at Eskom Enterprises where her main tasks were shareholder liaison and the restructuring of Eskom Enterprises’ non-core assets. Mokhobo worked at Eskom from 1995 and has worked in several divisions.
In 1998, she was seconded to the ministry for public enterprises for two years as special adviser on the restructuring of stateowned assets. Her focus area was Transnet.

Before joining Eskom, Mokhobo worked at the Development Bank of Southern Africa for five years. She started as an institutional specialist and progressed to international coordinator for the last three years of her employment. Previously, she was assistant general manager of African Bank Insurance Brokers for seven years where she was responsible for all the bank’s insurance. She has an MA in Public Administration from Ohio University and several certificates in management training, life and short-term insurance and has completed the Wits/Haward Business Management Executive Course.

She is a trustee of the M-Net/Phutuma Trust and serves on the boards of Capital Alliance Life, Saambou Life, WDB and African Access Holdings. Mokhobo is the founder of El Cubed
CRM and Secretarial Services which provides customer relations management through the use of a call centre.


tsakaniTsakani Mudau

Tsakani Mudau is the managing director and 49% shareholder of Mintbrooke Technologies, an
electronics company which installs, repairs and maintains National Lottery machines, as well as doing electrical
installations, base stations maintenance and service.

Mudau is involved in Broadband Wireless Project, which sells variable speed drives and GPS Soft Starter supported by Control Techniques Southern Africa, a subsidiary company of Emerson Electrical from the United Kingdom.

Mudau is a founder member Omama Electronics and National Technology Development Project. The objective of the project is to expose children from nursery and primary school, women, youth and the unemployed to computer literacy and business skills.

She is the managing member and 60% shareholder of TM MaAfrika Kopanang Project. Mudau obtained her N1, N2 and N3 Diploma at the Highveld Technical College. Her other studies include A+ (PC Engineering), N4 Maths and Electronics with Highveld Tech Business skills with Winning
Business Systems Leadership Skills, Business Communication from Damelin and an NMP from Wits. Mudau is a board member of WDB Investment Holdings.


tania_slabbertTania Slabbert (Executive)

Tania Slabbert joined WDB Investment Holdings in 1999 and has been chief executive for the past seven years, building up and managing a portfolio of investments to support the WDB Group’s mission of the economic development of women in South Africa.

Her work entails managing the executive team, overseeing the sourcing, negotiating, structuring, and monitoring of investments, as well as mentoring SMEs and ensuring placement and promotion opportunities for women within these investments.

Investments sourced and finalised to date are in the energy, leisure, services, financial services, IT and mining sectors. Before joining WDB Investment Holdings, Slabbert spent four years in the diplomatic corps, working in the political division of the South African embassy in Paris, France. Prior to this, she spent a number of years in West Africa working in the NGO sector where her focus was on economic development policies and their implementation.

Her other directorships include BP South Africa, Rennies Travel, Bidvest Group, Discovery Holdings and Dinatla Investment Holdings. She is also a non-executive board member of the
Business Women’s Association.

 

tandiTandi Nzimande (Executive)

Tandi Nzimande is chief financial officer of WDB Investment Holdings where she assists in managing
a large portfolio of investments on behalf of the WDB Trust. In addition to the overall financial control of WDB
Investment Holdings, Tandi’s role includes executing transactions and the monitoring of ongoing investment
relationships.

Nzimande qualified as a chartered accountant from
KPMG in 1996 and has a Higher Diploma in Company Law. She was previously a senior associate in the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank, where she spent five years gaining experience in mergers and acquisitions locally and internationally.

Her directorships include Paracon Holdings, where she chairs the Audit Committee, Rennies Travel, Masana Petroleum Solutions, Mintbrooke and FirstRand. Nzimande also sits on the actuarial committee of Discovery Holdings.
 

The Staff

• Tania Slabbert (Chief Executive Officer)
• Tandi Nzimande (Chief Financial Officer)
• Nicola Gubb (Executive: Investments)
• Mpumi Maesela (Investments)
• Lauren Flack (Executive Personal Assistant)
• Elizabeth Zengele (Executive Personal Assistant)
• Makgabo Pela (Frontline Manager)
 

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