Mpumi Madisa: Breaking Bidvest’s glass ceiling

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Born into a family of four siblings as the only girl, to a mother who was a teacher and father who worked in insurance, Madisa started schooling at Santa Maria convent school and matriculated from Mondeor High School. “Midway through my first year we were required to operate on a rat and that’s when I realised that could not be my life. I am very terrified of rats, even now, and I was required to operate on it and with all the blood and mess, my lecturer just asked me if I realised that I had killed my ‘patient’. That is when I knew that I had chosen the wrong career and there was no way I was going to reach year seven,” she says.

Eighteen months after joining Hollard, she left to join Prestige, a Bidvest subsidiary specialising in cleaning, as client relations manager, a position that was created for her and the beginning of a career trend. Three years later, she had moved up the corporate ladder, but realised she had missed out on a lot of valued experience so went out looking for exactly that.

“The only reason I left was the elections were around the corner and the political nuances were heightened and there was not much work being done and I am not a political person. While pondering leaving I bumped into my old boss at Prestige and he asked me to return, but we agreed that I would not be doing transformation as I already knew it like the back of my hand,” Madisa says.

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