Guest: Senzo Ndlangamandla, CA and HoD for Accounting Science at Walter Sisulu University

Senzo Ndlangamandla is an accomplished education and leadership professional, having served as the JSE Investment Challenge Coordinator in the Mthatha region from 2015 to 2018, introducing students and learners (predominately from rural communities) to stock exchange dynamics. He has climbed the rank in the academic world to being formally appointed as head of department in 2022.

Guest: Nonkululeko  Gobodo

Nonkululeko Gobodo is the CEO of AWAKENED Global, a social initiative. She is the former Chairman, and founder of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, now SNG Grant Thornton, the largest, black auditing and accounting firm in South Africa. 

Nonkululeko is the first black woman to qualify as a chartered accountant in South Africa, in 1987.

She is an author of a book, “Awakened to my true self”, which was launched in October 2022.

In 2011, Nonkululeko played a key role, as one of the leaders in the successful merger of Gobodo Inc. and SizweNtsaluba to form SizweNtsalubaGobodo. This was a move that changed the

landscape of the accounting profession in South Africa.

Nonkululeko started her career as a junior lecturer at Walter Sisulu University, formally known as University of Transkei, in 1984. She proceeded to begin her training as an accountant with KPMG in the Mthatha office. Subsequently, she joined the Transkei Development Corporation (TDC) as

a Chief Financial Officer. In 1992 she established her own accounting practice in Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape. She expanded the practice in 1996 to form Gobodo Inc which had offices in other

cities in South Africa.

She serves on the boards of PPC LTD and Shoprite Holdings which are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Lesaka Technologies Inc (which is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange) and was appointed as the Chancellor of Walter Sisulu University in April 2023.