Vuyokazi Mahlati (died 12 October 2020)[1] was a South African social entrepreneur, gender activist and global director of the International Women's Forum.
[2][3] She was the president of the African Farmers Association of South Africa, as well as the chairperson of the Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture.
She served two terms as the Chairperson of the South African Post Office Board of Directors where she led the corporatization strategy from traditional to digital business in mail, logistics and banking.
In addition, she served as the director of Alexkor Mining Board and the fund manager of Umbono Capital now One Stone.
She founded Africa’s first indigenous wool processing plant in Butterworth, in the Eastern Cape, where she taught unemployed people how to make cashmere garments.