Mr. Lwazi Goqwana
Divisional Executive: Engineering

 

Lwazi is an engineer by profession, with an extensive 20 year professional experience mostly acquired in Blue Chip Multinationals including Unilever, Kellogg, Tiger Brands and Barclays Africa. He has worked in various management and executive roles, including engineering management, project management and manufacturing management, from Trainee Engineer to Manufacturing Director.

In addition to his role as business executive, he was accountable for executing many business enhancements initiatives including business strategy development and execution, multiple business re-engineering programmes, operations excellence implementations (LEAN), development and implementation of Quality Management Systems, Factory Expansion projects and New Product Development. One of his Operations Excellence implementations was recognised by the Group Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Africa, in the annual employee excellence awards ceremony, “The One Awards, 2011”. As General Manager for Sales and Distribution at Tiger Brands, he was accountable (amongst others) for New Business Development and modernisation of the distribution network. Lwazi was a Project Director at Transnet Freight Rail, and was responsible for the execution of various expansion projects across the country with a total project value of R7bn.

 Academically, Lwazi has completed a B.Sc (Honours) degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cape Town and is a registered Professional Engineer (Pr. Eng) with the Engineering Council of South Africa. He also holds a Government Certificate of Competency, GCC (factories) and a Master's in Business Administration degree in Strategic General Management from the Milpark Business School.