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Mrs Stellah Matamela Sikhitha (Mrs Sikhitha) is an academic specialist in Mercantile and Administrative Law. She holds a Master of Business Administration through the Wits Business School where her research project was on: “Comparative Analysis of the Adjudication and Enforcement Powers of the Companies Tribunal in South Africa”. She is an Admitted Attorney with Master degree in Law specialising in Mercantile Law.

Mrs Sikhitha has twenty-six years of working experience in the legal fraternity. Eighteen years were spent in the public administration and eight were spent in the private sector. The twenty-three years of working experience, she spent working on financial services, consumer protection and corporate regulation, governance, attending to enforcement and governance issues, monitoring, evaluation performance of independent regulatory agencies, researching, investigating, analysing and interpreting complex concepts, implementing and evaluating them. The initial three working years, she spent in legal practice as a Candidate Attorney and a Professional Assistant in the law firms.

Mrs Sikhitha joined the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission in August 2023 as a Senior Manager in the Commission and promoted to the Chief Operations Officer of the Companies Tribunal effective 01 October 2024. Whilst at the Commission, Mrs Sikhitha was blessed to have worked directly with Ntate Tshediso Matona a seasoned public servant of 27 years, 16 of which he served as Director-General.

Mrs Sikhitha is yet to complete a research paper for an LLM qualification specialising in Insurance Law and Governance with the University of Pretoria titled “A critical analysis of the dispute resolution mechanisms pertaining to funeral insurance in South Africa – Some suggestions for law reform.” Whereafter she will embark on doctoral studies. To God be the Glory as I look forward to learn more from the Chairperson, the entire staff and members of the Companies Tribunal.

We wish her well in her new position.