Three University of Cape Town (UCT) alumna – who are sisters – are running some of South Africa’s most successful and influential companies.
Tsakani has been the Auditor General of South Africa since 2020, Basani was the first Black Female CEO of a bank after taking over at African Bank, and Refilwe now holds a senior marketing position at Discovery.
The siters grew up in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria. Their mother was a teacher, and their father was a lawyer who felt very strongly about education.
While the sisters were still young, their parents took them out of their township school amid the unrest in the final years of apartheid.
Before being taken out of school, the police…
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