MOGOPODI MOKOENA
Mr Mokoena began his career within the labour movement in
1989 when he was appointed Assistant National Accountant for
the Congress of South African Trade Unions. In 1991 he joined
the National Education Co-ordinating Committee where he held
the post of National Accountant and later moved to the auditing
firm, Douglas and Velcich (CA) S.A.
In 1994 he joined the Johannesburg City Council as an Internal Auditor.
He was later seconded to the Gauteng Department of Housing and
Local Government where he served on the Strategic Management Team.
A year later he was appointed as the Housing and Local Government’s
Department’s Director of Strategic Management from April 1995 to June 1996.
He was appointed as the Strategic Executive for Finance at The Greater
Johannesburg Northern Metropolitan Council in July 1996. In April 1998
he moved to the Province as head of the Gauteng Department of Housing
and Land Affairs. In October 2000 he was appointed to the post of Director
General for the Gauteng Provincial Government – a post he held until the end of
his second term in September 2008. In March 2009 he joint African Access Holdings
(PTY) Ltd as its group Managing Director.