Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa

Phuthi joined Naspers as South Africa CEO, in July 2019. Phuthi serves as an Executive Director on the Naspers and Prosus Board, effective 1 April 2025. She is an independent director of Vodacom Group. She serves on the advisory board of Stellenbosch University’s business school. 

Phuthi also serves on the board of the United Nation’s Global Compact Network SA and is the council member of the BRICS Business Council in South Africa. Before joining Naspers, she was the co-founder and Executive Chairperson of Sigma Capital, an investment holding company formed in 2015. In 2020, Phuthi ranked number 42 in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women International list. 

In May 2016 Phuthi became a member of the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni. She has been awarded several accolades such as CNBC Africa’s All Africa Business Leaders “Woman of the Year Award” in 2019 and the Forbes Woman Africa “Businesswoman of the Year” Award in 2014. In 2013, she was awarded a “Distinguished Achievement” Award by The Douglass Society, and the Africa Investors recognised her as a “Leading Africa Woman in Business of the Year” in 2012. The Wall Street Journal counted her among the “Top 50 women in the world to watch”.