Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana

Biography

Bulelwa is the Interim Director for the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
She has been appointed by the UCT Graduate School of business (UCT GSB) for 2018 as a consultant to lead the development of the GSB’s strategy and resulting programs and initiatives for UCT GSB hub in Philippi Village. Bulelwa will be assisting the UCT GSB in the on-going development of UCT GSB strategy, stakeholder engagement and communication, program design and implementation, leadership at UCT GSB’s Philippi hub, fundraising and developing a monitoring and evaluation framework.
The former CEO of the Cape Town Partnership, Bulelwa is a town planner with extensive experience in managing and coordinating public-private partnerships for area based management. An urban revivalist at heart, she has spent the last twelve years with the Cape Town Partnership managing, developing and promoting Cape Town’s Central City as an economically thriving, creative and valued public and private space in which to live, work and play..
Bulelwa is a member of the board of a number of national and international bodies. These include – Pragma Holdings and she is currently a chair of Pragma Africa board. She is also a board member of the International Downtown Association (IDA- USA), Placemaking Leadership Council (USA) an ambassador for the Cape Town International Convention Centre, member of the World Design Capital 2016 International Advisory Committee for Taipei and a World Cities Summit Young Leader.
Bulelwa was a member of the UCT council (2015-2018), and Chaired the University Buildings and Development committee and represented UCT Council on the Baxter Theatre Board