The Chief Human Resources Officer of Peermont Fihliwe Molefi says that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on work at many organisations and Peermont is no exception. The casino group closed shop for many months, and this meant that many employees took pay cuts or went without a salary during the hard lockdown. This affected families as some of the staff were eventually retrenched.
The Industrial Development Corporation’s Financial Manager Wisani Mhinga always knew that he was not meant to be in audit. It was always just a means to an end. He could not see himself becoming an audit partner. However, he did value the rare opportunity of obtaining the vast exposure to so many clients in different industries. Going through audit articles was a privilege he cherishes.
Wisani Mhinga was born at Sandton Mediclinic on 25th January 1988. He is the youngest of four children. He had an unsettled start to early schooling attending boarding school at Bishop Bavin St. George’s School in Bedfordview until grade one before joining Brother’s College in Klerksdorp for grades two to four. In 1999, he joined St. David’s Marist Inanda where he remained until matriculation in 2006.
In 1973, Bothwell Mazarura was born in rural Zimbabwe in a place called Murewa in the Mashonaland East Province. He grew up surrounded by acres and acres of endless land, enveloped by long pale green grass, umbrella-shaped trees and the freshest air imaginable. His father was an agricultural officer who would wake up each morning, jump onto his motorcycle and ride around the province visiting farmers.
Throughout her professional career and her life so far, Dineo Molefe has always been guided by values. ‘Once we have scaled the corporate heights, have made the money we will make and held the positions we will hold, it will all boil down to whether or not we have made a difference to humanity,’ the CFO of telecommunications giant MTN South Africa says.