Thandi Ndlovu

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Thandi Ndlovu
Born1953/1954
Soweto, South Africa
Died (aged 65)
North West Province, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Alma mater University of Fort Hare
University of Zambia
Occupation(s)Physician, businesswoman
Known forFounder of Motheo Construction Group

Thandi Ndlovu (1953/1954 - August 24, 2019) was a South African medical doctor and businesswoman who was best known as the founder of the Motheo Construction Group. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Ndlovu was born in Soweto, South Africa where she attended Orlando High School. [4]

In 1976, whilst a student at the University of Fort Hare, Ndlovu entered into exile in order to escape the attention of apartheid security services. Between 1977 and 1984, Ndlovu joined African National Congress as an Umkhonto we Sizwe member [2] operating outside of South Africa, moving from Mozambique to Zambia, and then onto southern Angola, where she received training; afterward, she attended a school for the Young Communist League in Moscow, USSR. [1]

In 1984 she enrolled at the University of Zambia to study medicine, after which she returned to South Africa and interned at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. [1]

Business career

Whilst practicing medicine in South Africa, Ndlovu noticed that many of the ailments among her patients from Orange Farm were related to poor living conditions due to a lack of access to adequate housing, which prompted her to found Motheo Construction in 1997. [1] [2] She was noted for her ability to break into the male-dominated South African construction industry, and for growing Motheo into a large-scale builder of government housing, [2] constructing over 80,000 homes. [4]

Death

Ndlovu died in a road vehicle incident on 24 August 2019 whilst on her way to a funeral in Rustenburg, North West Province. [1]

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References

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