Skhumbuzo Macozoma

23rd May 2014

By: Zandile Mavuso

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Features

  

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Full Name: Skhumbuzo Dennis Macozoma

Position: MD of the Johannesburg Roads Agency

Main Activity of the Company: Road network planning, construction and maintenance

Date and Place of Birth: March 25, 1976, Soweto

Education: MSc (civil engineering), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)

First Job: Research engineer, CSIR Building & Construction Technology, 1998

Career History Prior to Current Position: Executive: strategic business at Sizwe IT Group, 2011; chief officer: transport (accommodation, hospitality) and logistics, FIFA World Cup Organising Committee, 2010; chief director: transport infrastructure at the National Department of Transport, 2005; director: transport infrastructure at the National Department of Transport

Size of First Pay Packet: Net salary of R4 000 a month

First Job with Present Group: MD

Value of Assets under Your Control: Over R27-billion worth of City of Johannesburg roads

Number of People under Your Leadership: 1 600

Management Style: Inspirational, consultative, people focused, visionary and decisive

Personal Best Achievement: Being a committed father to my children and a pillar of support to my family

Professional Best Achievement: Winning the seventh Gyula Sebestyen Young Researcher’s Fellowship from the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction in 2001 and receiving the award for delivering a complex logistics solution for the World Cup with my logistics team and our partners from the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport South Africa in 2010

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: God Almighty

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Professor Yunus Ballim, of Wits

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Oliver Reginald Tambo (not possible)

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Richard John Pelwana Maponya

Philosophy of Life: Kick-open every door you find and reach out to the ones coming behind you

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Conducting my fellowship research at the University of Florida, Gainesville, US, in 2001

Biggest Ever Disappointment: Getting divorced

Hope for the Future: Elimination of the terrible impact apartheid has had mentally on both black and white South Africans

Favourite Reading: Autobiographies

Favourite TV Programme: Any really funny comedy

Favourite Food/Drink: Traditional Zulu food and lots of chicken

Favourite Music: Mainstream jazz

Favourite Sport: Soccer

Favourite Website: Google – it is the gateway to everything

Hobbies: None

Car: Classics – Mustang and Cadillac

Pets: None

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Crawling and slimy creatures

Favourite Other South African Company: Royal Bafokeng Holdings and Group Five

Favourite Foreign Company: Hyundai Motor Corporation

Married: Divorced

Children: Asanda, 8; Azande, 4

Clubs: None

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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