Daphne Mashile-Nkosi, Chairperson, Kalagadi Manganese

Daphne Mashile-Nkosi is currently the chairperson of Kalagadi Manganese (Pty) Ltd, a venture which will fund the first greenfields manganese project to be started in South Africa in over 30 years. Daphne has travelled a long journey from her childhood in Pilgrims Rest, where she was the youngest of four children growing up in an impoverished family. In those days she could never have imagined presiding over a multi million dollar business set up to complete a US$1.4 billion manganese mine and sinter plant in the Northern Cape, South Africa.

 Daphne is also the chairperson of WDP Investment Holdings and the deputy chairperson of the WDB Trust. She is a founder member, shareholder and director of Temeso Technologies and serves on the boards of Eyesizwe Coal, Nuworld Logistics and Thari Mining. She is a shareholder of Cellsaf and chairs the Mpumalanga Gaming Board.