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Our Team

Our Team

Pogiso Mthimunye(MBA)

Managing Director

Pogiso is the MD of the Mining, Projects and Industrial Services firm, Sekgao189. He is a technology, operations, and strategy leader with over 15 years of experience in operational and strategic roles across the minerals, energy, and industrial sectors in Southern Africa. He has held leadership roles at BHP Billiton, South32, Exxaro Resources, and Barloworld Equipment.

Pogiso was recognised among the top 200 Young People in South Africa in 2023 by the Anglo-American Mail & Guardian Newspaper Top 200 awards in the Mining and Manufacturing category. In the same year, he was named one of the Top 5 Rising Stars in the South African Mining Industry at the annual TransUnion Rising Star award.

Education & Qualifications
  • MBA – Master of Business Administration (University of Cape Town)
  • MDP – Management Development Programme (University of Pretoria)
  • PDBA – Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (University of Pretoria)
  • Bsc Honours – Industrial Systems (University of Pretoria)
  • Certificate of Competence – Operations Management in Mining systems – (University of the Witwatersrand)
  • BEngTech – Industrial Engineering (cum laude) – University of Johannesburg

Tshego Milanzi

Operations Director

Tshego comes from the engineering fraternity of metallurgy with 15 years of mining processing experience, his previous work involvements span from exploration, production, corporate, and consultancy. He has worked in numerous projects and operations within the BHP Billiton portfolio, South32 portfolio, and South Africa Energy Coal portfolio within South Africa and Central Africa region. He has commodity strength in manganese, iron ore, and coal processing.

Tshego’s experiential engagements in BHP Billiton, South32, and SAEC have led to bottom-line benefits across all businesses/operations. He has been able to enable and achieve this through increased revenue or lower cost base by enabling operations/businesses to create new products & niche market demands, review processes, creating & focusing on the repeatability of performance and the predictability of system outputs, which lead to cost-productive, sustainable and safe operations/businesses.

Education & Qualifications
  • Masters (MSc) of Management in Engineering and Technology Management (University of Pretoria)
  • BSc Honours in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (University of Witwatersrand)
  • Employee and Life sciences Management for Mining Operations (Goldfields Development Programme)
  • Continuous Improvement Techniques (MDW, Six Sigma & Lean) (CI Consulting

Mmapula Chabalala (MBA)

Technical Director

Mmapula has spent over 16 years focusing on the technical aspects of Mining with companies such as Anglo American Coal and Thungela. She has held roles in Mine Planning, Operating Model Implementation and Mine Technical services.

Mmapula is one South Africa’s foremost emerging technical experts on a whole suite of Mine Technical services with exposure to Mine Survey, Geology, Rock Engineering and the entire planning horizon. As Technical director, she spearheads Sekgao 189’s excellence-based approach to tackling technical programmes

Education & Qualifications
  • MBA – Master of Business Administration (University of Cape Town)
  • BSc Honours in Mining  Engineering (University of Witwatersrand)

Nomcebo Mlotshwa

Special Projects Director

With more than 11 years in the industry, Nomcebo has been exposed to mining, mine planning, manufacturing, investment valuations and mineral trading. Though a classical mining engineer by training, Nomcebo brings a variety of experiences to the Sekgao189 leadership team.

Having worked for Sibanye, Exxaro, Kumba, Minova, and Emor Mining, she possesses extensive experience in mining projects, funding, trading, and the trading of various minerals. She leads Sekgao’s special projects function as an agent of business transformation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders in a project and organisation.

Education & Qualifications
  • (PDBA) Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (MANCOSA)
  • BSc Honours Mining Engineering (University of Witwatersrand)