Basetsana Kumalo is an experienced and well established Business woman.
She is the Executive Chairman and CEO of Basetsana Woman Investment Holdings
(Pty) Ltd.
Basetsana is one of south Africa's leading Business women and has
already made her mark in various communities, business and government arenas.
She is a philanthropist at heart with her interests being in Mining, Property,
Media and Technology.
Basetsana also sits on the Boards of:
Unipalm Investment Holdings
PHAB Holdings
Leungo Investment Holdings
Uzalile Investments
Basetsana, former President of the Business women’s Association of
South Africa is the Executive Chairman of Tswelopele Productions, a television
production company which produces Top Billing, Pasella, Ses’Khona amongst others.
A Director at Travel with Flair, she also owns her own optical, sunglasses and
cosmetic range.
She is a philanthropist at heart and is a Board Member of the following
NGO Charities:
Nelson Mandela Institute
Siyahamba
Joybringers
Childline
Lovelife
Life College
The following companies have been represented by Basetsana in her
capacity as a Brand Ambassador/Spokesperson:
Ackerman’s
Cadillac
Lux
Milady’s
Queens Park
Woolworths
LG
Revlon
Pampers and UNICEF
Basetsana has been privileged to have been nominated and awarded the following,
these are just a few:
Young Global Leader: World Economic Forum: 2011
The Feather Award: 2010
The Inyathelo Philanthropy Award: 2009
The SA Iconic Woman’s Award: 2009
The YOU Spectacular Award: 2009
Sunday Times Top Brands Survey: 2008
The Cape Town Icon Award: 2006
The Top 10 most glamorous women in SA voted by Femina Magazine: 2004
The most stylish female magazine/entertainment show host voted by
Sunday Times and Elle Magazine: 2002/2003
The TV Style Awards as Recipient of the Annual Rapport/City Press
Prestige Award
Miss South Africa : 1994
First Princess Miss World : 1994
The Honorary Scholarship for Overseas Study awarded by President Nelson
Mandela: 1994
Shoprite/Checkers/SABC3 Woman of the Year Award - Media &
Communication Category: 1994
Miss Soweto - 1990
Miss Black South Africa - 1990
Besides being nominated by former First Lady Graca Machel as one of
five celebrities who volunteered to take a public HIV test, Basetsana also
assisted in raising funds for the Baragwaneth Children's Hospital.
Basetsana is a volunteer for Agang Sechaba. The aim of this project was
for various professional women to come together and give something back to the
various township communities into which they were born.
A devoted Christian, Bassie received a special award from Operation
Hunger, the Cancer Association of South Africa and the RDP (Reconstruction and
Development Programme), in which she played a key role. Just to mention a few,
these included Childline, Take a Girl Child to Work and Reach for a Dream.
Bassie is a Life Champion's for Life College, an organization steered
towards being a catalyst for psychosocial and economic empowerment in Southern
Africa, by providing character and leadership education.
Bassie has a Diploma in Marketing from Damelin. She is currently
completing a degree in International Relations and Political Science.
A wonderful achievement for 2011 was that Bassie was been nominated by
the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader to represent our country
South Africa, a country that she is very proud of.
More importantly Basetsana is a mother and wife.
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