After finishing high school, she worked part-time for the Mthatha office of Coopers & Lybrand while studying accounting through the University of South Africa.
In 1994, ahead of South Africa's first post-apartheid elections, she was seconded to the Independent Electoral Commission as a deputy finance director.
[6] Johnnic chairman Cyril Ramaphosa appointed her as financial director in 2003,[3] and in October 2004 she became acting chief executive officer after the incumbent, Jacob Modise, resigned.
[3] Ramaphosa followed her exit and the pair were ultimately replaced by HCI's chief executive and chairman, Johnny Copelyn and Marcel Golding.
[12][13] She held the position for seven-and-a-half years, under chief executives Pat Davies and David Constable, and oversaw the company's major Inzalo black economic empowerment deal in 2008.
[17] After leaving Sasol in September 2013, she took several months' hiatus from executive work,[3] though in 2014 she began a five-year term as a non-executive director at MTN.