Our Team
Managing Director
Commercial Director
Thabile Nkomo
Thabile Nkomo is co-founder and Managing Director of Tshepa Basadi (Pty) Ltd. She holds a BSc Engineering qualification from the University of the Witwatersrand and is registered Professional Manager of Projects with the globally renowned Project Management Institute.
Having found her passion in Project Management, she set out to build a successful career in this field, navigating to a senior leadership role prior to co-founding Tshepa Basadi. Her earlier years were focused on building and honing her skill in project management and developing herself as a leader of the 21st century through personal development, mentoring and coaching. With the ability to lead and steer teams towards a common goal as one of her key strengths, she has used this to propel Tshepa Basadi’s success and ensure that it becomes the formidable force that she has always envisioned it to be. Her role within Tshepa Basadi entails overall business strategy with a key focus on sustainable performance and growth, business risk identification and mitigation, ensuring statutory compliance while building a culture of Care, Boldness and Excellence within the organisation. She is passionate about the success of women in any industry that they choose, and hopes to inspire women to always show up courageously and “remain in the arena” until they achieve their goals. She is very family orientated and strives to live a life that integrates this grounding force with her career ambitions.
As a firm believer in continuous development and learning, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration with the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
Mbali Milanzi
Mbali Milanzi is a co- founder and executive director of a niche mining project management and technical services consulting firm which is female led, Tshepa Basadi. Tshepa Basadi is a growing organisation, which offers all things PMO and has a team of 60 highly competent professional staff stationed in different parts of the country. Her function is to direct the business’ strategic growth, sales portfolio as well as their operations. She is a project management practitioner and her expertise lay in running projects and programs in the mining industry and enabling her clients to meet their capital portfolio demands. She holds a BSc Hons in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master of Engineering degree in Project Management (MPM) from the University of Pretoria (accredited by PMI, as well as a PMP (Professional Manager of Projects) certification from the International Project Management Institution (PMI). She authored a published paper entitled ‘The effects of project management on organisations with centralised procurement in the matrix mining organisation’, and presented it at the Project Management Institute Australia Conference in Sydney, Australia. Her research interests make her a great asset for feasibility and directional studies where extensive research is required. She is passionate about contributing towards employment creation in our country through project management specifically in mining communities. She enjoys making an impact in the lives of young people and seeing them develop into their potential. Lastly ad most importantly, she is a wife and mother of two, who enjoys socialising; travelling; reading and is a mining enthusiast.
Managing Director
Commercial Director
Thabile Nkomo
Thabile Nkomo is co-founder and Managing Director of Tshepa Basadi (Pty) Ltd. She holds a BSc Engineering qualification from the University of the Witwatersrand and is registered Professional Manager of Projects with the globally renowned Project Management Institute. Having found her passion in Project Management, she set out to build a successful career in this field, navigating to a senior leadership role prior to co-founding Tshepa Basadi. Her earlier years were focused on building and honing her skill in project management and developing herself as a leader of the 21st century through personal development, mentoring and coaching. With the ability to lead and steer teams towards a common goal as one of her key strengths, she has used this to propel Tshepa Basadi’s success and ensure that it becomes the formidable force that she has always envisioned it to be. Her role within Tshepa Basadi entails overall business strategy with a key focus on sustainable performance and growth, business risk identification and mitigation, ensuring statutory compliance while building a culture of Care, Boldness and Excellence within the organisation. She is passionate about the success of women in any industry that they choose, and hopes to inspire women to always show up courageously and “remain in the arena” until they achieve their goals. She is very family orientated and strives to live a life that integrates this grounding force with her career ambitions. As a firm believer in continuous development and learning, she is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration with the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
Commercial Director
Mbali Milanzi
Mbali entered the mining industry as a chemical engineering graduate. She commenced her career as a project engineer assigned to operate a feasibility jig pilot plant at the Mine Plant Complex. Post the Jigging Pilot plant she moved on to work on capital projects where she undertook various projects, from large rail infrastructure projects, water programs, and various other infrastructure projects. She is well versed in project planning and scheduling. And she has hosted various functions for the mines she has worked with. Mbali holds a BSc Hons in Chemical Engineering, from the Wits and a Master of Engineering degree in Project management (MPM) from the UP (accredited by PMI). In 2016 she obtained her PMP (Professional Manager of Projects) certification from PMI. She is extroverted, enthusiastic, self-directing, calm and composed under stressful situations, she is enterprising and dynamic which means she can adjust well to change and leverage it as an opportunity. She has a track record of delivering on her commitments and is fantastic at building relationships.
The Team
Our teams consist of highly skilled professional engineers, project managers, project managers, cost controllers, construction managers, and other technical resources, with capabilities to coordinate the design, procurement, project management, risk management, construction, operational readiness, commissioning and handover complex projects.