Tsotsi in the boardroom

Tsotsi in the boardroom: Lulu Letlape

Written by Phillippa Yaa De Villiers
Monday, 19 December 2011 12:07

No stranger to the boardroom, Lulu has an impressive list of accolades on her CV having most recently held the position of executive director of corporate affairs at Mercedes-Benz SA, where she provided strategic functional leadership at executive committee and board level and managed stakeholder relationships in addition to serving as the chair of the transformation forum. Prior to this, she was group executive of corporate communications at Telkom, director of Celebrity Services Africa, chief executive officer of World Vision South Africa, senior manager at the Telkom Foundation and public relations manager at the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency. Lulu holds a bachelor in education from the University of Natal, a master’s degree in public and development management from The University of the Witwatersrand as well as global executive leadership certificates from the Aspen Institute in Colorado and IMD business school in Switzerland.

Tsotsi in the boardroom: Alex Okosi

Written by Brendah Nyakudya
Monday, 03 October 2011 17:22

ALEX OKOSI, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & MANAGING DIRECTOR, MTV NETWORKS AFRICA

The name MTV Networks Africa is synonymous with African success. The legend of MTV Base as a music channel has shed the spotlight firmly on a calibre of African performers that have the confidence to pit themselves against the best musical talent on the international stage. This pan-African entertainment network launched in early 2005, and since its launch, the channel has experienced an intense period of growth. It went from a pay-TV channel to a pan-African TV network that is accessible to more than 90 million viewers across Africa.

Rose Francis: The belle of South African literature

Written by Denise Mhlanga
Monday, 22 August 2011 10:24

Africa’s jewels and treasures are often hidden in the most ordinary things. Its people, history and music continue to fascinate and encourage story telling through various media. Rose Francis, managing director of African Perspectives Publishing, loves the simplicity and authenticity that is found in Africa. Her company creates a platform for African literature and African writers with a perspective on African matters.

She publishes and distributes literature with a focus on history, knowledge and politics. “There is no greater subject than history in my opinion as it underpins every aspect of existence,” she says.  She carefully explains that the articulation of a people’s history – defined by a body of text where the critical points of knowledge include substantive findings that are either theoretical or methodological – is engaging and intellectual.

Africa’s Queen of Letters

Written by Denise Mhlanga
Thursday, 07 July 2011 13:41

Nigeria-born Moky Makura is a multi-talented go-getter with a vision for Africa – to tell her own stories and highlight achievements of her heroes and heroines in their various fields of endeavour.

Moky Makura’s Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs (Penguin, 2008), which tells the success stories of the continent’s top entrepreneurs – talent and jewels of African business we do not often hear about. Makura writes in her introduction, “As Africans we often hesitate to tell our own positive stories and if we don’t highlight our achievements and take responsibility for the future image of Africa, nobody else will.”