Since she took the reins at Incwala, a South African mining-investment firm, last September, Zanele Mavuso Mbatha has been avoiding the media. She is not keen on personal publicity. "It's not a Zanele show," she says firmly. "It is an Incwala show." Yet in South Africa's mining business, still dominated by white males, Ms Mavuso Mbatha cuts an unusual figure. The 36-year-old is at the helm of $1.7 billion of platinum assets, which make Incwala one of the largest black-owned and -operated companies in South Africa's mining industry.
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