Work-Experience

Chief Operations Officer: Family-Owned Group of Companies (comprising Soxa Trading (pty) Ltd), Busoma Service Station (pty) Ltd and Good Hope Trading - Bisho, Eastern CapeSEP 2025 - Present

• Investment finance broker for mining sector.
• Compiling applications for funding of mining ventures.
• Ensuring statutory compliance in mining sector funding partnerships.

Executive Manager: Finance and Corporate services, Nongogo Guzana Icorporated, Head Office - Cape Town.JAN 2016- DEC 2022

• Management of the Admistrative Functions of Law Practice
• Oversight of the Finance Management, Human Resources, Information Technology and Client Liason Departments of the firm
• Reason for Leaving: The firm had to shut down due to the death of the sole director

Chief Financial Officer, East London Indstrial Development Zone - East London, Eastern Cape.Nov 2014 - Jul 2015

• Overseeing the accounting function, reporting function, budget and planning function, as well as the supply chain function of the entity.
• Ensuring good finacial controls, and good governance by working effectively with the Board of Directors and Board Sub-Commities
• ,Reason for Leaving: Dismissed for whistle-blowing and making protected disclosures (in terms of the Protected Disclosures Act, 2000) to the Board of Directors, Provincial Government, and the then Provincial Premier and eventually in the media about corruption and financial mismanagement in the entity.

Project Manager - Limpopo Intervention Team (Deputy Director General Level),National Department of Public Works, PolokwaneDEC 2012 - OCT 2014

Provincial Department of Public Works

• Overseeing the office of the Chief Financial Officer.
• Acting as Head of Department and performing accounting Officer duties whenever the accounting officer was absent.
• Chairperson of various tender commitees within the department

Provincial Department of Cooporative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs

• Head of Verifiacation Tast Team for low-cost housing projects in Coghsta
• Overseeing disiplinary processes of managers implicated in corruption
• Reason for Leaving: Intervention project resource scaled down as the project was nearing completion.

Founder and Managing Director, Buwa Gasa Gigaba Chartered Accountants Incorporated, JohannesburgFeb 2011 - Nov 2012

• Project Leader of Limpopo Project performing secreterial functions for all audit commitees if the Limpopo Provincial Government
• Acting as Head of Department and performing accounting Officer duties whenever the accounting officer was absent.
• Member of the Audit and Performance Committee of the City Of Tshwane
• Member of the Risk Committee of the City of Tshwane
• Member of the Audit abd Risk Committee if the Magalies water Board
• Reason For Leaving: Closed the firm to join the National Department of Public Works

Finance Lead - DMO Complex, BHP Billiton (Energy Coal South Africa), Johannesburg Oct 2010 - January 2011

• Monthly, half yearly and annual financial external reporting for the DMO Complex to the Energy Coal Customer Service Group
• Reason for Leaving: To start the Accounting Firm, Buwa Gasa Gigaba Chartered Accountants Incorporated.

TOPP Trainee towards CA(SA), South African Revenue Services, Pretoria Head OFfice Mar 2007 - January 2010

• Article Clerk, gaining understanding of the functioning of the business units of SARS.
• Issuing advance tax rullings in order to provide clarity, consistency and certainty in respect of the interpretation and application of tax laws.
• Acting share valuator for deceased estates for six months within the period of articles.
• Reason for Leaving: To start the Accounting Firm, Buwa Gasa Gigaba Chartered Accountants Incorporated.

TIPP Trainee towards CA(SA), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Polokwane Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

• Perfoming Audits for various clients of the firm.
• Reason for Leaving: Changing the audit stream from TIPP to TOPP.

Quantity Surveyor, Eskom Distribution (Northern Region), Polokwane Aug 2002 - Jul 2002

• Compiling Cos estimates and bills of quantities.
• Reason for Leaving: To pursue a full-time studies (accounting Conversions Course and Postgraduarte Diploma in Accounting) at the University of Cape Town

Project Coordinator Eskom Distribution (Northern Region), Polokwane Apr 2001 - Jul 2002

• Monitoring and providing feedback on site progress of electrification projects to Project Manager
• Reason for Leaving: Promotion to Quantity Surveyor

Engineer in Training, Eskom Distribution (NOrthern Region), Polokwane Apr 2001 - Mar 2005

• Plant Management: Initiation of projects for plant refurbishment and doing strategic spares planning.
• Project Engineering: Doing design evalutions; attending project kick-off meetings; pre-tender inspections (briefing sesssions for prospective tenderers), and site handover meetings. Attending customer request meetings for key customers.
• Customer Services, namely Acquiring knowldge of Sales and Marketing, Tarriff Strucires and Pricing, Electricity Demand Forecasting, Electricity Trading (between the generation, transmission abd distribution divisionss)
• Reason for Leaving: Completion of training, and promotion to Project Coordinator