Dr Khoza is an inspiring business leader, an independent thinker, a passionate community caregiver, development activist and role model. She has a proven ability to optimize company outcomes in a results-orientated work environment encouraging teams to go an extra-mile delivering more for less. She has ensured that the delivery of infrastructure projects on the continent where Bigen works, are delivered with high quality standards, on budget and time. Her focus on ‘’Doing Good while Doing Business” has given Bigen a recognition as a social enterprise that gives back to communities. Bigen ensures that all projects contribute to socio-economic development of communities where the projects are. As the Group CEO, Dr Khoza leverages the knowledge of the Group to support governments to deliver basic services to communities also ensuring job creation, entrepreneur and enterprise development focusing more on women and youth.
Relevant key positions
Current: Dr Khoza currently chairs the boards of ETION Ltd, SNOKHO Investments, and Ka-Manowi Manor Pty Ltd. She sits on the Advisory Boards of the University of Pretoria – Water Institute; and Ubank Group as independent non-executive director chairing its Human Capital and RemCo. She is the President of a not-for-profit Organization – Agape Christian Women’s Network. Past: Dr Khoza was previously the founding chair of Knowledge Management Africa while at the DBSA. She chaired the multi-billion Rand Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority and the Water Research Commission as the first woman to fill these positions. Her other former chairmanships included chairing the Arts, Culture, Environment and National Heritage Distributing Agency of the National Lotteries Commission ; the Centre for Social Development in South Africa at the University of Johannesburg; Family and Marriage Society of South Africa; Bihati Holdings Ltd, Khayalabo Investments Ltd, and Women’s Development Business Trust. She was also a member of the following boards: National Housing Financing Corporation Audit Committee and Chaired the Risk Committee; SekelaXabiso Audit firm, chairing its Audit and Risk committee; Statistics South Africa; and Freights Dynamics. She has also served on the ministerial advisory panels for the then Ministry of Water and Forestry and Housing. In 2016 she was promoted with the Bigen Group from CEO to executive chairperson in recognition of her delivery of the company's previous five-year plan. Her previous "right-hand man" Anton Boshoff took over her previous position. In 2018 she was a judge in the All Africa Business Leader Awards.
Awards
Personal Awards 2014 Continental Lifetime Achievers Award 2015 Unashamedly Ethical Leader Award 2015 SA Top Performing Business Leader 2015 South Africa Lifetime Achievers in Business and government 2016 International African Woman Award 2017 Life Time Achievement 2019 Gender Icon Award – Standard Bank Top Awards 35 Industry Awards , Top Infrastructure Development Company of the year Council for Engineering SA 3 Awards o Business Excellence o Best International project o Best Mentoring company PMR Combined Award for civil and structural engineering 2019 - Ranked number 1 in Top 500 Best managed companies
