Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa August 2018 | Page 9

Ipeleng
Mkhari
MASTER INVESTOR
An Incredible Entrepreneurial Journey
BY ANYA VIVIERS
KEY STATS
Age: 44
Current position: CEO, Motseng Investment Holdings
Family: Married to Given Mkhari with 3 children
Qualifications: BA (Soc. Science)
Career: Serves as Independent non-executive director on a
number of listed and unlisted boards including: KAP Industrial
Holdings, Attacq Ltd, Nampak Limited am ongst many others;
Founded first black-owned CCTV company in 1998; Co-found-
ed Motseng Investment Holdings; Also serves on various
public sector and non-profit organisations: Recently appointed
Chairman of SAPOA
Awards: Cosmopolitan mover of the year 2006; Finalist
Woman entrepreneur of the year 2006; Most influential woman
business 2008 by CEO mag; listed by Destiny as one of South
Africa’s most inspirational; entrepreneur
Famous quote: “I have lost so much on my journey of 18 years.
I have also gained so much. I have succeeded. I have failed.
Everything has meant something in building me.”
M
eet SAPOA’s President Elect,
lpeleng Mkhari, founder and
CEO of Motseng Investment
Holdings.
Mkhari has been an entrepreneur for
two decades and has been on the receiving
end of many an accolade, including Cos-
mopolitan’s Mover of the Year Award in
2006, CEO Magazine’s Most Influential
Women in Business in 2008, and Forbes
Woman Africa’s Pioneer Woman of the
Year Award in 2015.
“In business you lose, you win, but you
lose more than you win, but you’re satis-
fied with that, because you’re learning,”
Ipeleng says, as she reflects on her entre-
preneurial journey. “It takes a special breed
of human being to be an entrepreneur. I
get people who say they want to be like
me, but you weren’t there when I had no
money, or when I couldn’t replace my car
tyres because they were so smooth. You
don’t know that story.”
Born in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, along
the east coast of South Africa, Ipeleng had