About Us
Sifiso Publishers focuses on publishing modern educational and entertainment content for children and adults. We promote authentic indigenous content and writers to instil and inspire excellence in Africa. Sifiso Publishers is a subsidiary of Sifiso Learning Group (Pty) Ltd, a modern education group of companies co-founded by Sizwe Nxasana and Dr Judy Dlamini.
Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe holds a BCom, BCompt (Hons), CA (SA) qualifications. He started his career at Unilever. In 1989 he established Sizwe & Co, the first black-owned audit practice in Kwazulu Natal. In 1996 he became the founding partner of Nkonki Sizwe Ntsaluba, now called SizweNtsaluba Gobodo, which is the fifth largest audit firm in South Africa. In 1998 he joined Telkom SA as Chief Executive Officer and was responsible for its listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the New York Stock Exchange.
Sizwe was the CEO of FirstRand Banking Group since 2005 until he retired in September 2015. Sizwe serves as Chairman on various Foundations and Trusts. He is the Co-founder and Chairman of the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT). He was appointed Chairman of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in August 2015 and is Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team and Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP) which funds students who come from poor and working class backgrounds.
Sizwe is now a social entrepreneur who recently founded Future Nation Schools which is a chain of affordable private schools in South Africa. He also founded Sifiso Learning Group which is involved in Edtech, academic publishing and real estate.
Sizwe Nxasana has been conferred with honorary doctorates by the Universities of Fort Hare, the Durban University of Technology, the University of Johannesburg and the Walter Sisulu University. Mr. Sizwe Nxasana has been a founding member of the Human Resources Development Council (HRDC) since its establishment in 2010 and has led many of its key projects.
Dr Judy Dlamini
Judy holds a MBChB (Natal), DOH (UFS), MBA (Wits), DBL (UNISA), Stanford Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate (Stanford University) Judy started out as a medical doctor before changing into business. She is entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. She has worked in different sectors of the economy using her diverse skills sets and degrees in different subject areas.
After practising as a medical family practitioner for many years, she specialised in Occupational Health and consulted for different companies. Her MBA qualification from Wits University enabled her to change careers. She worked for HSBC Investment Bank, at the Johannesburg office in the Corporate Finance division. She is the Founder and Executive Chairman for Mbekani Group that celebrated 20 years in business in 2016. Mbekani group has operations and investments in different sectors of the economy. She is a non-executive director of SA SME Fund, an initiative between government and the private sector to create jobs and grow an inclusive economy.
Former Chairman of Aspen Pharmacare Limited (Aspen) a JSE-listed South African pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor, she is a published author of ‘’Equal but Different”, which was a bestseller for several weeks. She was selected as the 2017 Exclusive Books Homebru author in the business sector. Her second title was released in February 2019.
Judy is the Chancellor for Wits University.She is the recipient of the African Economy Builder Lifetime Achiever Award for 2016 amongst several other awards, the most recent being the UNISA Leadership In Practice Award 2018. She received honorary Doctorates in Business from the Nelson Mandela University in 2018 and University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Economics in 2019. She’s the co-founder and trustee of Mkhiwa Trust, a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) that the family uses for social investment.