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Africa 2015

Nthanbisend Ntsele

Head of legal service | National Empowerment Fund

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Nthanbisend Ntsele

Head of legal service | National Empowerment Fund

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‘I think I’m a lot more relaxed than when I started two years ago’, Nthabiseng Ntsele says of her role at the National Empowerment Fund. ‘Now it’s just keeping the momentum going’. Praised widely for her positive and innovative approach, Ntsele has shown her commitment to improving social welfare throughout her career, having previously focused on major international development projects.

Supporting both legal and compliance at the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, she worked on funding a major water purification project in Sudan and a biomass waste project in Mpumalanga. Becoming legal head for the body tasked with bringing South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment policy to life, has meant both a change in step and considerable new management responsibilities.

Ntsele thought long and hard about how she was going to approach this, she explains. ‘I’m heading up a team of 13 lawyers – the biggest challenge I had was how to inspire them’, she says. ‘I don’t really do the “You have to be here at 8, you have to take lunch from 1 to 2”. I try to focus on the person and what they are good at and how I can get the best out of them’. Ntsele is affiliated with the Institute of Directors of South Africa and the Association for Black Securities and Investment Professionals. She is also an Andre Dreyer Motors director and a former trustee of the South African Intellectual Property Fund.

 

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