Winnie has more than 23 years of high productivity experience in business. 15 years of which have been spent in supervision and management of other resources including people.  She has an excellent ability to work with people from different sectors of society - from judge to street sweeper.

 

She has carved her own successful career working with corporations (Liberty Life, Anglo American), banks (The World Bank and Nedbank/Nedcor), foundations (Liberty Life and African Bank) and non-governmental organisations – locally and internationally.

 

Winnie is a trustee of three non-profit boards – Aggrey Klaaste Nation Building Projects, Hantam Community Trust and Business Arts South Africa.  She  is a founding member and director of Classic FM South Africa. She started the African Bank Foundation from scratch, managing director of a Micro Finance company specialising in provision of finance for low cost housing; started and managed a microfinance company geared to lending money to small  and micro enterprises. Her experience in financial education of the masses is inspiring. She produced and conducted an hour long financial management conversations on Thetha FM, a community radio station.

 

Winnie studied Business Management at The University of Witwatersrand, attained a post graduate qualifications from GIMT, and attended the Senior Executive Program Harvard Business School in Boston USA.