{"id":697387,"date":"2023-06-20T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=697387"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T08:17:07","slug":"business-talk-blsa-ceo-busisiwe-mavuso-discusses-the-future-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/697387\/business-talk-blsa-ceo-busisiwe-mavuso-discusses-the-future-of-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 BLSA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso on the future of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Busisiwe Mavuso &#8211; CEO of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) &#8211; discusses the fiscal future of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mavuso is a Chartered Accountant with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants in the United Kingdom (ACCA-UK) and holds the following qualifications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Master\u2019s degree in Business Leadership from UNISA SBL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Postgraduate Qualification in Business Management from GIBS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A BCompt from UNISA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She started her finance career in the banking industry in 1995 and has since worked in industries such as training, consulting, telecoms, and healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mavuso is also known as an advocate for inclusive socio-economic growth, transformation, and people\u2019s development &#8211; which led her to become the Chief Operating Officer at BLSA in November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was then appointed as the organization\u2019s CEO in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to this, Mavuso is a non-executive director on the boards of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), Eskom, Resultant Finance (a PIC investee company), and BMF Investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Mavuso speaks to Michael Avery about her fiscal projection for South Africa over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then explains how South African businesses have developed an impressive resilience to the difficult operating conditions in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mavuso also highlights the issues that South Africa must solve to help local business grow, and provides examples of positive business initiatives that are achieving this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by providing advice to businesses that are trying to achieve growth in a difficult economic climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full interview with Mavuso can be watched below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wlZoi0EzyDU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Business Talk interview, BLSA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso discusses her projections for South Africa for the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":697393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[15351],"class_list":["post-697387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-blsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697441,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697387\/revisions\/697441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}