After graduating from Wits and serving articles, Phindile
Nzimande became a Professional Assistant at Wright Rose Innes.
She joined a law firm in Pretoria for a year and left legal
practice in 1994 to take up a role in government as Strategic
Management Team Advisor to the Gauteng MEC for Housing and Local
Government.
In 1996, Phindile joined the Metropolitan Council of
Johannesburg and was appointed the Executive Director of Contract
Management for the City of Joburg in 2001, which entailed managing
the relationship between the City and its utilities.
In June 2003, Phindile accepted a fresh career challenge as CEO
of EDI Holdings, the company tasked with project managing the
restructuring of the electricity distribution industry, which
essentially entails merging the distribution section of Eskom and
that of municipalities and thereafter dividing the entire industry
into six financially viable Regional Electricity Distributors
throughout the country.
She has served on a number of boards such as Nurcha, a
presidential lead project established to facilitate investment in
the financing of low cost housing. She currently serves on the
board of Momentum and Wits Council.
Phindile is single, and the proud mother of a single child,
Thandolwethu. She plans to eventually return to legal
practice.
