 |  |  |
Nolitha Fakude - Immediate Past President (2004-2006)
| Mr. Bheki Sibiya (1999-2003)
| Mr. Lot Ndlovu (1995-1999)
|
Ms Nolitha Fakude is the Executive Director at Sasol responsible for Group Strategy
and Human Resources. She sits on the Boards of BMF Investment Company, Harmony Gold Mines,
Woolworths Holdings as well as WHEAT(Women Hope for Education and
Training) Trust. Nolitha is a Council member of BUSA and NEPAD Steering Committee.
She was named as one of 20 most influential Businesswomen for 2004 by
Financial Mail.
| Mr Bheki Sibiya headed the BMF after Lot Ndlovu between 1999 and 2003. He was Executive Director of Transnet and also chaired South African Airways, Air Chefs and Apron services Boards. He has climbed the ladder within BMF from ordinary member to the Presidency of this great organisation. His main contributions were around the issues of business and community.
| Vice-Chairman of the Nedbank Group. Previously he was CEO of Peoples Bank
Ndlovu is a doyen of the black empowerment movement in SA. He was president of both the Black Management Forum (BMF) and the Black Business Council. The Black Economic Empowerment Commission was initiated by the BMF under his presidency.
Ndlovu studied business management at Unisa, Wits, North Western University (US) and Harvard Business School. He holds an honorary doctorate from Pretoria Technikon (now Tshwane Institute of Technology). |
 |  |  |
Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu (1991-1995)
| Mr. Don Mkhwanazi (1986-1991)
| Mr. George Negota (1984-1986) |
Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu was president from 1991-1995. A chartered accountant that led the BMF during a critical period in South Africa's history, when the political environment was undergoing revolutionary change. Nkuhlu was a university principal and lecturer, and has headed various development and economic fora.
| Mr. Don Mkhwanazi was the president of the BMF from 1987-1991. He is a management development commentator and leading exponent of black economic empowerment. It was during Mkhwanazi's term in office that BMF started reaching out to all key players outside the business domain, including the banned ANC and PAC and the union federations.
| Mr. George Negota took over the reigns of BMF from 1984-1986. He has become a keen black business Development Corporation and proprietor of a business development consultancy. Between 1990 and 1991, Negota was a director of the ANC's Department of Manpower Development.
|
 |  |  |
Mr. Don Ncube (1982-1984)
| Mr. Martin Sebesho (1981-1982)
| Mr. Eric Mafuna (1977-1981)
|
Mr. Don Ncube held a managerial position at Anglo-American at the time of his BMF presidency in 1982-1984, becoming group Industrial Relations Consultant in 1990
| Martin Sebesho is also one of the BMF's founding fathers. An active policy-maker in human resources development. He led debates about emerging policies on black empowerment. He previously held managerial positions at, among others, Union Carbide and Comad.
| A former student activist, Mafuna's involvement with the BMF preceded its launch. He was one of the founding members who campaigned for the establishment of the organisation in the 1970s, at a time when he was employed as a Director of Research and Planning at J Walter Thomson. He was re-elected as President in 1985.
|
