Zuma appoints new BEE council

They are: Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies;

 

- Susan Shabangu, Minister of Women in the presidency;

 

- Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant;

 

- Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi;

 

- Zingiswa Losi, the second deputy president of the Congress of SA Trade Unions;

 

- Tantaswa Fubu, president of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of SA;

 

- Puleng Tsebe, deputy chairman of Disabled People SA;

 

- Sandile Zungu, vice-president of the Black Business Council;

 

- Clive Manci, member of the Board of Business Unity SA;

 

- Eltie Links, chairman of Doing Business in Africa at the Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business;

 

- Chantyl Mulder, senior executive for professional development and transformation at the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants;

 

- Lefadi Makibinyane, CEO of the Council for Consulting Engineers SA;

 

- Thami Mazwai, executive chairman of Mtiya Dynamics;

 

- Yershen Pillay, chairman of the National Youth Development Agency;

 

- Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, former housing minister and Central Energy Fund chairwoman;

 

- Mike Mlengana, president of the African Farmers Association of SA;

 

- Zinhle Cele, deputy secretary general of the Progressive Professionals Forum;

 

- Koko Khumalo, deputy president of the Black Management Forum and;

 

- Caroline Magadla, treasurer general of the SA National Apex Cooperative.

 

The directors-general of the departments reporting to the ministers serving on the council would serve as alternate members of the council.

 

The council provides guidance and monitoring of broad-based black economic empowerment performance in the economy. It makes policy recommendations.

 

Zuma welcomed the new council members and thanked their predecessors.