Busisiwe Mavuso

She is an executive director and the Chief Executive Officer at Business Leadership South Africa; an independent association of the leaders of some of South Africa's biggest and most well-known organisations. Born in Soweto a township outside Johannesburg during the apartheid era, Busisiwe Mavuso did well in accounting at school. When she matriculated aged 16 in 1994, the year South Africa became a democracy, she says she decided to pursue accounting as a career ‘without really knowing what it meant’.