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Founder of the Thinabantu Foundation
Tumi is an Advisor to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), an organ of the African Union (AU). She is an attorney with a multi-disciplinary background in African Development, Governance, corporate law and public policy. At APRM, she focusses on Corporate Governance and Global Partnerships. She promotes policy reforms to strengthen good governance practices, protection of Human Rights, Environmental Rights in non-state sectors in Africa, (business sector, NGOs and other Associations). She has assessed organizational governance practices in several countries, including, Ghana, Egypt, Liberia, Senegal, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Ethiopia. She also chairs the Committee on the development of African Corporate Governance Principles and Guidelines, the first ever framework for Corporate Governance in Africa and which pioneers the concept of Purpose + Profit as the foundation of good governance for enterprises.
Tumi is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and became the first black woman partner at Bowmans, an international law firm in South Africa. Recently, she founded the Organisation for Global Africa Cooperation, a platform for cooperation that brings together thought-leaders in business, government and civil society to work together and for the private sector to play a critical role to contribute towards Africa’s developmental goals and objectives.
Ms. Dlamini is an experienced Board member and has served on several boards including Foundations and Listed Companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. She is passionate about promoting access to quality education and was Chairperson of the Board of CIDA Empowerment Fund, established to secure funding for SA’s first tertiary education institution for the economically disadvantaged rural South Africans. She is the current President of Harvard University Association South Africa where she promotes access to opportunities to study at Harvard University for talented but disenfranchised South Africans. She has recently been appointed to Chair the South Africa Bid for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
She holds a Masters in Public Administration and Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she was awarded the prestigious Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program and the Kistefos Fellowship, a B Social Sciences Degree and a postgraduate degree in LLB both from the University of Cape Town.
Attorney of the High Court, South Africa
Lulama Mtanga is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and more than 20 years’ experience specialising in Competition Law.
Lulama graduated with BA in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Town and an LLB from Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in European Community Competition Law from the King’s College, University of London. She also completed a UK Foundation Management Program, at the Lex Mundi Institute, Monterey, California, USA and an Executive Leadership Development Program, Gibs Business School, Johannesburg.
She has worked for the Competition Commission of South Africa as well as at one of the leading international firms in South Africa, Bowman Gilfillan Inc., and was based in its Sandton office. She joined Bowmans as an associate and made partner in March 2007. She was a partner for 7 years and also served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
In 2014, Lulama founded Lulama Mtanga Legal Consultancy, a boutique consultancy specialising in Competition Law. She has since worked part-time with the Competition Tribunal from 1 September – 31 December 2016 and also served as a panellist for the Competition Commission in the Grocery Retail Market Inquiry, a role she commenced on in 2016 until November 2019.
She is an experienced Board member and currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of directors of two companies, one of which is a listed company. She is the Chairperson of the Social & Ethics Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the said listed company.
Ophthalmologist, South Africa & UK
The Head of Dermatology at the Harry Gwala
Parents: Rev Creswell and Mrs Dorcas Mkhize
Dr. Zamambo Mkhize is a passionate medical doctor and educator with a very keen interest in education and philanthropy. As a child she could not decide on whether to become a teacher or a doctor, and her mother said something prophetic: “you will be a doctor that teaches other doctors”. She is a qualified Specialist Dermatologist who has served in the public health system in South Africa for over 20 years.
She is currently the Head of Dermatology at the Harry Gwala Edendale Hospital where she grew up and serves patients who come as far as Ixopo, Umzimkulu, Eastern Cape and even Lesotho. The hospitals in these rural areas do not have specialist doctors and refer their complicated cases to Edendale. This was a major motivation for her to remain in the public sector and especially to serve the communities from these areas.
Concurrently, Dr. Mkhize is a Senior Lecturer and research supervisor at the UKZN School of Medicine and an Examiner and moderator of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa(CMSA), college of Dermatologists. She enjoys teaching medical students, Registrars and other doctors.
Dr. Mkhize is driven by her passion for community development and is especially devoted to rural community service. She has focused on using her skills, time and experience to give back to communities in Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas. She spends significant time mentoring young doctors in Edendale and at the University of KZN Medical School in Durban. She is also a mentor in the STEM programme run by STEM MentHER. As part of her active community engagement, she conducts dermatology and medical clinics in some of the most poverty ridden rural areas on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg.
She was recognized for her work and was awarded a Mayoral Award. In 2006, she was named the Registrar of the Year in Dermatology by the University of UKZN.
Dr Mkhize has co-authored a few research papers and presented at some Dermatology Society of South Africa(DSSA) congresses She was nominated to serve on the CMSA Council 2023-2026 triennium elections but declined this honour to focus on community work and teaching.
A proud product of Esigodini primary school, Edendale, she obtained her MBChB (UKZN School of Clinical Medicine and is a Fellow of theFCDERM(CMSA). She is currently studying towards MmedSci (UKZN School of Clinical Medicine and a Diploma in Allergology(CMSA).
She is affiliated to HPCSA(Health Professions Council of South Africa ) and the CMSA.
Programme Officer, Educator
Lungile Silokazi, is a Programme Officer for the Thinabantu Foundation She is an Educator by profession with over 22 years’ experience in the Educational fraternity. She has taught at both High school and Primary school levels. She also has worked in the private sector, in Client Services, as well as in Sales and Marketing.
Lungile has always been passionate about the upliftment and education of young girls. In 2010 she cofounded a social development organisation named “Gift-To-A-Child” which sought to address social and educational challenges of Primary school learners who were impacted negatively in their education. The organisation was awarded a grant by Lotto (National Lotteries Commission) in 2016 to run an after-school Literacy Project for the Foundation Phase learners. The aim of the project was to improve the proficiency of the children’s learning languages (English and IsiZulu), a critical aspect of the learning process as inadequate language proficiency leads to learning barriers.
As a Programme Officer, she oversees program design, development and implementation. She is also responsible for developing and maintaining of professional networks. Lungile’s personality, experiences, and passions are ideal for her position.
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The Thinabantu Foundation is centered on the philosophy of UBUNTU – humaneness, generosity, compassion, empathy and empowerment of the people whom we are part of and who helped shape us.
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