Main Event Speaker

Tantaswa is the Founding President of Women of ABASA.
She is currently employed at Barloworld Limited as a Group Executive: Human Capital & Transformation. She also, serves as a board member for Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa, Barloworld Logistics Africa, Barloworld Siyakhula and Barloworld SA Limited.
Previously worked for KPMG SA and KPMG Africa as an Executive Head for People (HR) & Transformation, and served on both the Executive committee, Transformation Committee and the Board. In addition to this, Tantaswa has previously worked for Standard Bank as a Group Risk Manager, looking after the Reserve Bank reporting requirements for Standard Bank SA, Africa and London.
She also served as a Non-Executive Director for numerous companies including Santam Limited and Grindrod Limited and Grinrod Bank. She also served – on both companies – as a member of the Audit Committee. She chaired the Audit Committee of the Public Investment Corporation. Tantaswa also served Umalusi Council for Quality Assurance in General and Higher education as the chairman of the Audit Committee.
She has also previously served as a trustee of Tshephang Trust and Soul City.
Tantaswa has also served the following professional institutions:
SAICA (South African Institute of Chartered Accountants)
1. Board Member
2. Education Committee member
3. Examinations Committee member
IRBA (Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors)
1. Board Member
2. Audit Committee member
ABASA (Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in Southern Africa)
1. President
2. Board Member
3. Member of the Past Presidents’ Council
4. Trustee of Investment trust

During her spare time, Tantaswa volunteers her time to mentor and empower the women and the youth of South Africa. She writes poetry, enjoys reading, spending time with her family and loves flowers.

Main Event Speaker

Mamokgethi Phakeng (formerly Setati) began her term of office as Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Cape Town on 1 July 2018, as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research
and Internationalisation since January 2017. Previous to this appointment she served as Vice
Principal for Research and Innovation at the University of South Africa (Unisa) for five years, after
serving three years as Executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at the
same university. She holds a PhD in Mathematics Education from the University of the
Witwatersrand. She has been invited to deliver over 40 keynote/plenary talks at
international conferences, and as a visiting professor in universities around the world (in Australia,
Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon,
Lesotho, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Senegal, South Korea,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA). She has won numerous awards for her research and community
work, including the Order of the Baobab (Silver) conferred on her by the President of South Africa in
April 2016. In August 2014 CEO magazine named her the most influential woman academic in Africa
and in August 2016 she was awarded the prestigious Businesswoman of the Year Award in the
education category. In July 2019 the University of Bristol conferred on her an Honorary Doctorate in
Science in recognition of her leadership role in mathematics education in South Africa.
Kgethi, as she is popularly known, was elected as a member of the Academy of Science of South
Africa (ASSAf) in November 2007; an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour
Society in May 2009, an honorary life member of the Association for Mathematics Education of
South Africa (AMESA) in July 2009 and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2018. In 2008
she became the first black South African researcher to be appointed to co-chair a study
commissioned by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. The study entitled
“mathematics and language diversity” has completed its work and published a volume in 2016,
which she co-edited.
She is a member of the board of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG); a
trustee of the FirstRand Foundation; the South African Student Solidarity Foundation for Education
(SASSFE) and the Pearson Marang Education Trust (PMET). In 2016 she was appointed by the then
Deputy President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, to chair the Human Resource Development
Council standing committee on Mathematics and Science Education. She served as member of the
board of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and chaired its Research
Development and Innovation Committee from January 2015 till September 2017. She was elected in
2011 as the first woman President of the Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand and
served for five years till 2016. She led the Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa
(AMESA) as its first woman National President from 2002 to 2006, served as founding chairperson of
the Board of the South African Mathematics Foundation (SAMF) from 2004 to 2006 and secretary
and member of the executive committee of the International Group for the Psychology of
Mathematics Education (PME) from 2003 to 2007.
Kgethi is founder of the Adopt-a-learner Foundation (www.adopt-a-learner.com)

Welcome

Conference Opening Address

Pre Event Masterclass Speaker - Tools for Accountants

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Post Lunch Webinar : Leading a Pan African Business Plenary - Facilitator

Mandisa is the Head of Stakeholder Relations at Old Mutual Limited, responsible for driving the Group’s ongoing engagements with its primary stakeholders while employing a stakeholder-inclusive model across all markets. In her previous roles at Old Mutual, Mandisa served as the Group Marketing Manager to Old Mutual plc (while on secondment to the Group’s former Head Office in London) and the Executive Assistant to the Managing Director for Retail Affluent.
Mandisa holds an MA in International Trade and Investment Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, which she earned whilst on a Fulbright scholarship in the USA. Mandisa believes that enabling organisations to develop and maintain strong social and relationship capital bases is an integral part of securing their financial performance. As a result, she is passionate about promoting active corporate citizenship and fostering collaborative approaches to solving Africa’s social challenges.

Post Lunch Webinar : Leading a Pan African Business Plenary - Panelist

Joanita Jaggwe Office of the Prime Minister Uganda, Expert - Financing
Joanita serves as an Expert Advisor on Financing within the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda, Prime Minister's Delivery Unit.
Previously, and at the time she received the Angaza Award, Joanita served as Country Head of Risk and Compliance at KCB South Sudan, where she helped improve the bank’s operations by introducing risk management structures and frameworks that have stymied losses. Through her efforts, the bank’s write-offs have drastically reduced with zero losses due to fraud and full compensation to affected customers, averting all potential penalties and reputational damage costs. She has implemented robust Anti-Money Laundering (AML)and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CFT) systems for rigorous monitoring of customer profiles and transactions in South Sudan, which is a “hotspot” area for U.S. and UN sanctions and embargoes; this has created a competitive advantage for the bank and enhanced confidence and continued business with international partners.
For these interventions, KCB South Sudan is recognized for attaining the highest Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Index Score within KCB Group. She also has been instrumental in building an effective compliance and risk management culture which has reinforced system efforts to minimize operational errors and/or failures and promote operational efficiency.
Previously, she served as Governance and Control Manager at ABSA Bank Uganda Ltd., where she contributed to firm performance by sealing income leakages through fraud detection and prevention that reduced the bank's operational loss expense from 20 percent to 6 percent of Profit Before Tax.
Within the community, Joanita supports the Juba Teaching and Referral Hospital, where she has organized and secured funding to procure medical equipment, including delivery beds for expectant mothers, mattresses and wheelchairs.

Post Lunch Webinar - Leading a Pan African Business Plenary

Arthur currently serves as the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) for the UAP Old Mutual Group in East Africa. Prior to his appointment as the GCEO, Arthur served as the Acting Group Chief Financial Officer UAP Old Mutual and the Group Chief Operations Officer for Old Mutual Africa Holdings.
Prior to joining the wider Old Mutual Group, Arthur worked for Standard Bank Africa, where he held various finance roles in South Africa, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda and Nigeria. While at Standard Bank of South Africa, Arthur oversaw various business transformation initiatives including rolling out of SAP FI into 10 countries across Africa
His deep experience in the financial services industry has seen him work in various executive and leadership positions across Africa establishing intercultural communication and strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. His expertise includes strategy formulation and execution, business turnaround and transformation, financial and operations management.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Economics & Sociology) from the University of Nairobi and is a Certified Accountant registered with the Institute of Certified Accountants in Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. He serves as an executive director in various boards within the UAP Old Mutual Group.

Post lunch webinar: Leading a Pan African Business Plenery-Panelist

Fields of expertise: Accounting & Audit, Corporate Governance, budget management, Workforce management, strategic planning and management.
Major projects/professional highlights:
PFM reporting guide (co-developed with GIZ) identifying strengths and weaknesses in a country’s PFM process.
Research paper to determine the level of resilience of SAIs in sub-Saharan Africa to meet stakeholder expectations during the COVID-19 disaster leading to a pocket guide for SAIs to perform real time disaster audits.
Developing strategies and initiatives
Building capacity at institutions such as Parliament, Executive authorities and Accounting authorities to improve the management and accountability.
Meisie believes the key to the success of any business is effective leadership and the quality of its employees. In recognition of this, she never misses an opportunity to influence others to work toward organisational goals. She enjoys developing and maintaining sufficient cohesiveness and motivation to keep the team working together as a functional unit, while learning how to adapt her leadership style to increase her effectiveness.