Photo Gallery: 3 September 2026, Executive Day, Melrose, Johannesburg

Humbulani Tshivhase has started a new role as chief director for HR management and development at the Gauteng Office of the Premier.

A room full of women would once have been unthinkable. Nonkululeko Gobodo, pioneering business leader, entrepreneur, author, CEO of Awakened Global and Chancellor of Walter Sisulu University, reflected on just how much that picture has changed during her keynote at the 2026 Executive Communities Women’s Dinner.

Nerisha Charlton has been appointed people and organisation director for the international division at Royal Canin, expanding her leadership remit to support the pet nutrition company's operations across 115 markets in Latin America, Eurasia, the Middle East and Africa.

Sifiso Gasa once prepared himself to be a teacher, then a lawyer, before ultimately finding his calling in the space between both: working with people. Today, as CHRO at Röhlig-Grindrod Logistics South Africa, he leads the people agenda for a business of around 600 employees, but his journey to the executive table started in the unglamorous trenches of HR.

Tsebo Solutions Group has appointed Phumzile Hlatshwayo as HR director to lead the HR function.

Terence Moolman has been appointed CHRO at Lesaka Technologies.