Boardroom Dancing: Transformation Stories from a Corporate Activist

Our next guest grew up as a shopkeeper’s daughter in the Eastern Cape, studied at the University of FortHare. When she entered the workplace in 1990, she started as a graduate trainee at Woolworths. Over a career spanning 35 years, she has spearheaded programmes that ensure the development of women and marginalised communities in the workplace and society. She has raised in the corporate ranks at multiple JSE listed companies. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, she has earned a well-deserved reputation as a corporate activist.

Although Boardroom Dancing is her personal journey, it is also a lesson for South Africans committed to the transformation of boardrooms and the economy, and for women looking for role models as they climb corporate ladders and become thought-leaders. To quote an extract: "My hope in writing this memoir… is that it will invoke in you, the reader, the urge to want to have a much more open and deeper discussion about what our shared future should look like and what the common values of South Africa should be, and how best to move forward as a country towards defining a peaceful co-existence among all South Africans of all races". To share more about her journey to the Boardroom and if we are getting closer to this vision, we are joined by....

Guest:  Nolitha Fakude  - chairman of Anglo American’s management board