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Lindani Dhlamini

12th June 2015

  

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Full Name: Lindani Dhlamini

Position: CEO of SekelaXabiso

Main Activity of the Company: SekelaXabiso is a professional services firm that provides internal audit, information technology audit, forensic audit and business consulting services

Date and Place of Birth: Umlazi

Education: BSc (computer science), BCom, CA (SA)

First Job: Systems developer, Southern Life

Career History Prior to Current Position: After leaving Southern Life, I studied to become a chartered accountant before joining Deloitte and then starting Xabiso Chartered Accountants

Size of First Pay Packet: R2 500 a month

First Job with Present Group: I started the firm 11 years ago

Value of Assets under Your Control: Our biggest asset is our people and I cannot quantify their value

Number of People under Your Leadership: About 300

Management Style: I am task-orientated and try to motivate our people to achieve results. I am also passionate about empowerment and the skills development of young people

Personal Best Achievement: My children

Professional Best Achievement: They include starting this company and growing it into one of the leading black-owned firms in the country, winning the Black Business Quarterly magazine’s New Entrepreneur Award in 2006, being a finalist in 2008 in the finance category of the Passing the Torch Awards, presented by the Gauteng Department of Economic Development to honour women who contribute to the growth and development of the province’s economy, and serving on various company boards

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: My parents

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: There have been a number of influencers at the different stages of my career and life

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: I find any black woman in a position of leadership or power inspirational

Philosophy of Life: Persevere and be resilient

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Attending Adams College and the University of Cape Town, working for one of the biggest insurance firms and starting SekelaXabiso

Biggest Ever Disappointment: I do not see challenges as disappointments

Hope for the Future: The ‘normalisation’ of the black experience

Favourite Reading: The 10 000 Hour Rule, repeatedly mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers: The Success Story, captures the essence of my belief in life – to achieve excellence, you need to work at it, and work at it, and work at it

Favourite TV Programme: Suits

Favourite Music: In the morning, I need to be pumped up for work, so I listen to house music, and at the end of the day, I listen to the likes of Andreas Vollenweider

Favourite Sport: Going to the gym, running and tennis

Favourite Website: My company website

Car: Porshe 911 Carrera

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Tardiness and lack of attention to detail

Favourite Other South African Company: I really appreciate black excellence throughout South Africa, even if it is my competition

Children: Two

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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