PsySSA is pleased to announce that Dr Nobuhle Judy Dlamini will deliver the Keynote Address at the 4th Annual Siphiwe Ngcobo Memorial Lecture that marks the start of the 25th Annual Psychology Congress at Emperors Palace.
The Siphiwe Ngcobo Memorial Lecture is held at the start of our national congress in honour of our Past President Professor Siphiwe Ngcobo who was killed during March 2014. In a tragic irony Professor Ngcobo had, just weeks earlier, sent a letter of concern to President Jacob Zuma offering PsySSA’s assistance regarding the level of violence in our country.
Let us now introduce Dr Dlamini
After practising as a medical family practitioner for many years, she specialised in Occupational Health and consulted for different companies. Her MBA qualification from Wits University enabled her to change careers. She worked for HSBC Investment Bank, at the Johannesburg office in the Corporate Finance division. She holds an MBChB from the University of Natal, a Doctorate in Business Leadership from UNISA, an MBA from Wits University and an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate from Stanford University.
A thriving leader in business, Dr Dlamini is both the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Mbekani Group. She served as the former Chairperson of Aspen Pharmacare Limited and has served on the boards of Anglo American, Discovery Holdings and Woolworths. Dr Dlamini has also served as the past Chairman of the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood, and Allied Workers Union Development Trust, a public benefit organisation. Together with her husband, she co-founded the Mkhiwa trust, a family public benefit organisation that focuses on rural development and education. She is also the author of Equal but Different: Women Leaders’ Life Stories.
A woman that epitomises African excellence, Dr Dlamini was the recipient of the SADC South Award for the Business and Professional Services sector at the regional and national level. She has also been awarded the African Economy Builder Lifetime Achiever Award (2016); the Fabulous Woman Award (2016) and in 2018, she was the recipient of UNISA’s Leadership in Practice Award.
Dr Dlamini is currently serving as the Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand.