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R29.95 (VAT INCL) SOUTH AFRICA g-FleeT Management, formally known as Gauteng Government Motor Transport (GGMT) is a trading entity of the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport. g-FleeT is a provider of vehicle leasing and fleet management services to government departments in Gauteng and currently operates a fleet of approximately 7 000 vehicles, the client base includes national, provincial and some local government departments

Meet the top three executives who are steering the g-FleeT Management ship.

CHIKANE CHIKANE governance, leadership and management, VICTOR MHANGWANA which he attributes to the years of experience in management positions he possesses.

During his spare time he enjoys reading and watching soccer and is an avid Orlando Pirates fan. Chikane also enjoys spending time with his family; he is married with three children – two boys and a girl.

Chikane is result driven in his leadership role and believes in communication to improve interpersonal relationships which are crucial in effective implementation of decisions and getting people to trust you and what you do. Victor is the Chief Operations Officer He holds a Masters of Public Administration at g-FleeT Management, a trading Chikane is the Chief Executive Officer degree from the University of Pretoria, entity of the Department of Roads and of g-FleeT Management, since 2009. Before and a Bachelor of Jurisprudence degree Transport of the Gauteng Government. joining g-FleeT, he was the CEO of the from the University of the . Victor was born and raised in Limpopo, Urban Transport Fund in the Department He has also completed various certificates many moons ago, and he has spent 24 of Roads and Transport in Gauteng, a to name a few; Advanced Labour Law years of his working life contributing his position he held for two years. He has also Programme from UNISA, Business knowledge and skills to corporate and worked as a municipal manager in the Management Development Programme medium size businesses, before joining Metsweding District Municipality. from the WITS Technikon, Arbitration the public sector. A student of Philosophy, Skills Training from IMMSA, Executive with a degree in Theology and an avid Chikane has more than 20 years Development Programme and Strategic reader of business and self-development experience in management in different Human Resources Management both from literature, he is always on the look-out for positions including in labour relations and Gordon Institute of Business GIBS. He is alternative answers that will give a spark general management. His major skills currently busy studying for his Master’s of new energy to difficult business and include project management, corporate degree in Town and Regional Planning. organisational questions. ADVERTORIAL

One of the highlights of his career of six where she is the second of Examination Part II in 2007. She is a was being part of the National four children. She has always been registered member of the Independent Inauguration Committee that prepared passionate about numbers – auditing Regulatory Board of Auditors as well for the inauguration of President Nelson and financial accounting to be specific as a member of the South African Mandela in 1994. and loves being faced with accounting Institute of Chartered Accountants related challenges. Problem solving is (SAICA). g-FleeT Management, formally He later worked for Business Against her other passion and loves assisting and derives extreme self-satisfaction known as Gauteng Government Motor Crime, IBM’s Public Safety Unit, She has a great interest in the sporting Adopt a Police Station Project, his IT when she deliver requested financial codes such as soccer and cricket and Transport (GGMT) is a trading entity of the career included working for start-up services that exceed expectations. has a lot of experience in some of the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport. local companies in sales and senior Prior to joining g-FleeT worked at minor ones like tennis, netball and g-FleeT is a provider of vehicle leasing and fleet management roles. He spent the past Guatrain Management Agency as a playing darts. She led the 1997/98 management services to government departments eight years in the transport industry finance executive. Girls (under 18s) Volleyball Apollo Club in Gauteng and currently operates a fleet of managing fleet. and assisted in leading the 1996 to approximately 7 000 vehicles, the client base As a teen and while going to college, 1996 Apollo Girls Netball Team in the He is fascinated by how technology, she worked in her family business; position of vice-captain, and coached includes national, provincial and some local smart business processes and human from answering the telephone to them to great success in amateur social government departments ingenuity combine to create value in the accounts receivables to sales to netball. If she is not working Natalie is market place. He relishes the opportunity preparing and delivering bank at some church event or at home with to combine his philosophical and IT deposits. She even did some of the her family in Durban, or spending time backgrounds with business solutions work that her dad paid his accountant with her very close friends’ which also to create value. to do. This is where she decided to always includes food. become a chartered accountant. This Victor is a seasoned speaker and upbringing provided Natalie with a She counts her greatest achievements presenter. This year, he is about to solid understanding of business which as after becoming an audit manager the publish a book on the joy of work, the helped her daily in her finance career. opportunity of travelling twice to the culmination of a project he has been United States of America to assist with working on for over 10 years. He lives Natalie attended Willow Park Primary the audit of the Bank of America and in the City of Tshwane, with his wife School and thereafter, matriculated Columbia Bank (shares, stock portfolios and two children. at Apollo Secondary School. In 1998 – was really exciting). She was the she enrolled at the University of Natal senior associate on this assignment – NATALIE GOVENDER in Durban where she obtained her which was really exciting. Thereafter Bachelor of Commerce Degree in 2001. she was seconded to the Gautrain Project during June 2007 to September Thereafter in 2002 she obtained 2012, where she (together with a the Certificate of Theory in retired partner from PwC) headed Accounting with BCom Honours in up the Finance Unit of the Gautrain Accounting, Auditing, Taxation and Management Agency wherein monthly Managerial Accounting and Finance. payments ranged from a few hundred to Her first job immediately after a few billion Rand. She admits that to completing both Honours was with date this PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. (PwC ) in was her most significant accomplishment January 2003 where she worked from in her career as she is at her best being an article clerk to an assistant when challenged. manager. After articles, the firm decided to keep her on to become an Aside from her work passion Natalie Audit Manager. is personally passionate about God, His work and her personal spiritual While completing her articles with growth. She loves to tell people that PwC, she