CEO's Corner

Maphefo Matlala joined TETA as the Chief Executive Officer in April 2008. Herewith her educational background:

Ph.D: University of Pretoria (Current)
Executive Development Programme of UNISA School of Business Leadership 2007
Presidential Strategic Leadership Development Programme at University of North West in association with SAMDI (2004). (CPSLD)
Management Advancement Programme at Wits Business School. 2003 (MAP)
Master of Education at Rand Afrikaans University (2000); Psychology of Education
Bachelor of Education (Honours) at UNISA (1996)
Bachelor of Education Pedagogy at University of the North (1986-1989)
Other Management courses & certificates

About Maphefo Matlala

Maphefo has 19 years of experience in various departments at provincial and national level. Twelve of these years were at managerial level, ranging from being a School Inspector in Mpumalanga to being Co-ordinator of Skills Development for Teachers in the National Department of Education.

She also served as Regional Director for Roads and Community Safety in the Northwest Province, where she faxed tough challenges that she feels have prepared for turning TETA around.

Before she joined TETA, Maphefo was Chief Director for Road Transport Regulation in the National Department of Transport. In this position she had to make sure that stakeholders within Road Transport Management were kept up to date with new policy development.

She is aware that there are priorities that need to be addressed immediately because of the transport sector’s crucial role in assisting with the successful hosting of the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

She is confident that progress can be made over the next year. “I want to report some real improvements in the priority areas.”

TETA’s Vision

Maphefo has set the following targets for TETA:

Playing a central role in ensuring that the transport sector as a whole has the right skills
Training Taxi drivers to fulfill their important role as ambassadors for the country in time for 2010.
Providing skills to give support for the upgrading of public transport
Targeting schools especially in the rural areas to get the right candidates involved with TETA’s bursary programme.
Accelerating training of scarce, critical and priority skills in all sub-sectors.
Expanding participation in all critical groups, by supporting NGO, CBO, CBC sector and also sustaining new venture creations owned by young people;
Recognising and supporting Institutes of Sectoral and Occupational Excellence (ISOEs);
Driving key projects by extending reach to non participating stakeholders, large companies, SMMEs and BEEs;
Improving the opportunities for learners to be exposed to workplace experience and placement particularly those in FETs and HETs; and
Align capacity to achieve the ser objectives and ensure that there is requisite capacity of TETA Practitioners at ETQA and ETDP levels.