Fundiswa Roji-Maplanka

Fundiswa is a Chartered Accountant. She is the founding partner of an investment holding company, Dlondlobala Capital, which she cofounded in 2015. Ms. Roji-Maplanka has professional experience in finance, audit, corporate governance, strategy, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, investment management, and investor relations. She was a senior manager responsible for strategy and investor relations at the Imperial Group until the end of 2014. Prior to joining the Imperial Group, she worked for over a decade at Kagiso Trust Investments, and later at Kagiso Tiso Holdings as a director of investments. During her tenure at Kagiso Trust Investments, she was a member of various boards across industries including Macsteel, Bytes Technology Group, Multotec, UTI Pharma and Universal Print Group. She was a member of the boards of radio assets of Kagiso Media including JacarandaFM and East Coast Radio as part of managing the Media and ICT portfolio of the Kagiso Group. In the public arena, she has served on the board of Technology Innovation Agency and on the audit committee of the Commission for Gender Equality. She has also served as a non-executive director of the South African Venture Capital Association.