GEPF Conference 2026

Deputy Chairperson: Old Mutual SuperFund Umbrella Retirement
Thandeka Zondi is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with nearly two decades of executive, board and entrepreneurial experience spanning assurance, financial services, public sector leadership and technology.

She began her career at Deloitte in audit and innovation consulting, and subsequently worked alongside the Chief Executive of Old Mutual plc’s Long Term Savings cluster across London and Johannesburg. At the Auditor-General of South Africa she led the Western Cape business of approximately 240 people before joining the executive committee as Corporate Executive for Strategic Projects and Institutional Cooperation.

Thandeka founded MoneyWorks Financial Services, a supply chain financing platform enabling early-payment programmes for small and medium enterprises, which she sold in 2022. She is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thandeka Zondi and Associates a technology investment firm as well as founder of Ubukhosi Technology Consulting, a 100% Black-woman-owned company building governed artificial intelligence, data and automation platforms for public-sector and enterprise clients.

She serves on the boards of Eskom Holdings, MTN MoMo Cameroon, Old Mutual Insure, Old Mutual Alternative Risk Transfer, Thebe Investment Corporation and the Old Mutual SuperFund Umbrella Funds, and is a member of the University of Johannesburg Council. She chairs audit and risk committees across several of these mandates.