The CMO Corner

Thabani Khumalo chats to Carel Nolte the Chief Marketing Officer at Purple Group, which owns the likes of Easy Equities, Easy Properties and Easy Crypto just to name a few. The group has made investments accessible and are set to reach 1 million users soon in less than 10 years of being in the market. Carel leads all branding, marketing and communications for the total group and its subsidiaries.

Born and raised in Soweto, Thulani Sibeko is an enthusiastic, collaborative, optimistic and assertive marketer and business leader. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accounting Major) in 1992, Thulani has held different marketing roles in different industries and companies over the past 25 years, including Gillette, Polaroid, Procter & Gamble, Vodacom, Hol...

Sydney Mbhele is a chartered marketer (SA) with a proven track record in building brands and markets. His experience stretches Financial Services (Banking, Insurance, and Investments), Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), and Telecoms. He has worked in Marketing, Communications, Sales, Corporate Affairs and led major brands for organisations that include the likes Unilever (local & Global roles in L...

My guest, Mzamo Masito is the chief marketing officer for Google Africa. His role entails bringing to life Google’s mission to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and be helpful, useful for every African, so that Google’s users and partners can grow in Africa.

I spoke to the CMO for Nando's, the South African fast food chain that specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1987, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 35 countries. We spoke about all things creativity, what makes him and his team tick and the changes the marketing industry needs as he sits in the Marketing Association of South Africa's b...

Khensani Nobanda is the Group Executive for Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Nedbank. Her marketing career spans 18 years, working across a number of local and multinational organisations. Her first marketing role was at Unilever where she started as the Rama Assistant Brand Manager. Kensi’s Unilever career culminated in her running the Skin Category for Unilever in Africa, Middle East and Turke...

On S1 E2 of the CMO corner. I chatted with a good friend/brother/mentor of mine. He is the perfect guest as we celebrate Africa Month in May. Everything he does is centered around Africa. Having been to all 55 countries in the Africa. Thebe is the founder of Brand Leadership Group which is a marketing group that has shaped brands like PRASA, Transnet, UNISA and many more SOEs. He has been recogniz...

I wanted to chat about the future of marketing, and there is no better way than to chat to Musa Kalenga, Chief Future Officer at the Brave Group and the CEO of BridgeLabs. We touched on his entrepreneurial journey, the switch to being corporate head, ditching all of it to go back into entrepreneurship, the future of marketing with all the shifts we see and how brands and marketers can start showin...

Do you want to come into a world of intimate and real conversations to learn from some of the leading current and former Chief Marketing Officers and Marketing Executives? Well, this is the podcast for you! Join Thabani Khumalo (CM SA) as he picks their brains on brands, their marketing journey and more