Sitholizwe Mdlalose

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Sitholizwe Mdlalose
Born1980 (age 4142)
Alma mater University of South Africa
Harvard University
OccupationAccountant and Corporate Executive
Known forBusiness expertise
Title Chief Executive Officer
Vodacom Tanzania

Sitholizwe Mdlalose is a Zimbabwean accountant and corporate executive who was appointed as chief executive officer of Vodacom Tanzania, effective August 2021. Before that, he was the director of finance at Vodacom South Africa, between 2017 and August 2021. [1]

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Background and education

Sitholizwe is a Zimbabwean national. [2] He received a Bachelor of Accountancy (B.Compt) degree, from the University of South Africa in 2002. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant (ACCA), recognized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. In addition, he has successfully undertaken the Senior Executive Programme at Harvard School of Business. [2] [3]

Career

From 1999, while an undergraduate at UNISA and for the four and one half years until August 2003, Sithole was assigned to Deloitte Zimbabwe, as a Trainee Chartered Accountant, based in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. [3]

Following that, he spent one and half years at Family Impact Zimbabwe, a non-government organisation that supports vulnerable families, based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. While there, he served as the Country Director for the NGO. He then relocated to Reading, in the United Kingdom, where he was hired by Ernst & Young as a Client Service Manager, for two years. [3]

He joined Vodafone in January 2007 and worked in various roles in the United Kingdom, including as finance manager, Head of Internal Audit Unit and as Senior Finance Manager: Africa, Middle East & Asia Pacific Regions. After nearly seven years at Vodafone, he relocated to South Africa in August 2013. [2] [3]

He joined Vodacom South Africa in August 2013. While there, he was given progressively increasing senior executive roles including (a) Internal Audit Managing Executive for the 7 units reporting to the Vodacom Group Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee (ARCC) Chairman (b) Acting Chief Operating Officer, International Business (c) Chief Financial Officer: International Business (d) Interim Group Chief Financial Officer, Vodacom Group Limited and (e) Finance Director, Vodacom South Africa Pty Limited. The period he spent at Vodacom in South Africa is reported as 8 years and 3 months. [2] [3]

Other considerations

At Vodacom Tanzania, Sitholizwe replaced Hisham Hendi who took up a new position at Vodafone in Spain. Sitho, as sometimes his first name is abbreviated, is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's business capital. [4]

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References

  1. Frank (25 August 2021). "Vodacom Tanzania appoints Sitholizwe Mdlalose as managing director". Arica Inc Magazine. Nairobi, Kenya. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tanzania Daily News (27 August 2021). "Tanzania: Sitholizwe Mdlalose – Newly Appointed Vodacom Tanzania's Managing Director" (via AllAfrica.com). Tanzania Daily News . Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Sitholizwe Mdlalose (August 2021). "Sitho Mdlalose: Finance Director: Vodacom South Africa". LinkedIn.com . Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  4. Bethsheba Wambura (25 August 2021). "Vodacom Tanzania appoints Sitholizwe Mdlalose as Managing Director". The Citizen (Tanzania) . Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Retrieved 16 October 2021.