BMF appoints Nelly Mosiane as Managing Director

The Black Management Forum (BMF) has appointed Nelly Mosiane, as Managing Director, to succeed Jerry Vilakazi who recently joined Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) as Chief Executive.

Mosiane brings to the BMF a wealth of experience on Black Economic Empowerment and Transformation from her role in one of South Africa's largest retail organisations, Edcon, where she served as Group Transformation Executive reporting to the Group CEO. During her tenure, Mosiane initiated the establishment of the Transformation Unit and was very instrumental in the consolidation of the organisation's BEE deal and pending trend setting enterprise development initiatives. A graduate from the University of the Western Cape, Mosiane left Edcon being the most senior female in the group and the only African female to sit on the Executive Committee.

Mosiane serves on various boards including the National Business Initiative (NBI); she also sat in the Enterprise Development & Preferential Procurement Committee of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). She will become a member of the BMF board and executive committee.

BMF as a progressive organization, in 2003 saw the historic election of Nolitha Fakude as its first female president at its annual general meeting. The appointment of Nelly Mosiane as MD reaffirms the organisation's position on the empowerment of women.

For the past 30 years BMF has been actively instrumental in advocating for black economic empowerment and corporate transformation. The BMF's blueprint for affirmative action published in 1993, the "Basotho Hat", was one of the key documents that formed the draft of the Employment Equity Act.