To The Top! Bonang Matheba’s Mom Charlotte Mokoena Adds Another Feather To Her Cap
To The Top! Bonang Matheba’s Mom Charlotte Mokoena Adds Another Feather To Her Cap. The apple definitely didn’t fall far from the tree in this case. Now we all know why Bonang Matheba is such a high achiever. Her mother, Charlotte Mokoena has never stopped reaching for her dreams, and her latest achievement attest to that.
The Executive Vice-President of Human Resources and Stakeholder Relations at Sasol has just added another feather to her cap. Ms Mokoena has graduated with a Master of Commerce (Leadership Studies) degree, cum laude at the age of 55. Celebrated media personality, Bonang joined the thousands of well wishers who congratulated her mother on her achievement.
Mokoena was born in 1965 in Pimville, Soweto as the eldest of four girls. Following the 1976 Soweto uprisings, she and her sisters relocated to Rustenburg to stay with their grandparents and, upon their passing, attended boarding school to complete their schooling.
Matriculating in a then homeland high school prevented Mokoena from gaining entry to Wits University. She trained as a nurse and worked at Baragwanath Hospital in the mid-1980s. This experience gave her direct exposure to the violence and trauma of apartheid, while the system’s brutality also directly affected and claimed the lives of her family members.
Her other vocation is teaching. Mokoena practiced as a guidance teacher at a school in Mahikeng for about a year before returning to work for a youth development NGO in Soweto, while working in conflict resolution in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands when violence in the province was rife in the early 1990s.
Mokoena joined Sasol in February 2017. In her role, she has global responsibility for Sasol’s Human Resources and Corporate Affairs functions. The international integrated chemicals and energy company recruited her from Tongaat Hulett, an agricultural and agri-processing business, where she spent three-and-a-half years as HR executive.
