Wits Business School

The world's best business schools are not all in Boston or London. One them is in Johannesburg and part of the country's top ranked university.

Wits Business School is proudly EQUIS accredited - recognised among the global top 1% for academic excellence, research impact, and industry relevance. A school built on African soil, shaped by African complexity, and now formally recognised on the world stage.

Globally recognised. African at heart.

Your ambition doesn't need a passport. It needs the right school.

Discover our programmes: https://www.wbs.ac.za/

Dr Tshepo Feela brings a rare combination of strategic, academic and governance leadership to the Wits Business School (WBS) Alumni Association committee.

A PhD graduate of WBS, Dr Feela serves as Group Chief Executive Officer of Diversifex Group and as a Commissioner on the National Planning Commission, appointed by the President of South Africa. His career spans strategy, finance and organisational development, with an academic footprint that extends across institutions locally and internationally - lecturing, supervising postgraduate students and reviewing for leading economic and Brics journals.

A member of the Institute of Directors South Africa and an award-winning professional, Dr Feela is committed to strengthening WBS alumni engagement and advancing the School's national and global impact.

It’s official! We're proud to announce that Wits Business School has been awarded EQUIS accreditation for the next three years - placing us among the world's leading business schools.

The certificate was received by Prof Logan Rangasamy, interim Head of School, and Prof Jones Odei-Mensah, Academic Director, on behalf of WBS at the EFMD Global Annual Conference, currently underway in Sevilla, Spain.

This prestigious accreditation recognises the overall quality, viability, and self-improvement commitment of business and management schools around the world. It is proof of well-designed programmes with clear learning outcomes, rigorous student selection, highly qualified teaching staff, impactful research output and contribution to ethics and sustainability.

We thank our faculty and professional administrative staff for their ongoing commitment to excellence, as well as our students, alumni, our Advisory Board and MBA Advisory Committee, our clients, and our Wits University colleagues for the tremendous support in helping us achieve this significant milestone!

Africa's business future is being shaped right here. 🌍

South Africa has food safety laws. What it lacks is a coherent system to make them work.

The Food Safety Leadership Initiative (FSLI) at Wits Business School recently convened a multi-stakeholder dialogue - bringing together government, industry, academia and civil society to address the governance gaps putting public health and lives at risk.

Read the full article: https://www.wbs.ac.za/news/food-safety-governance-south-africa-fragmentation-fit-purpose

South Africa imports 100% of its oil.

When the Strait of Hormuz closed, the largest oil market disruption in World Bank history sent shockwaves across the globe, and this country had nowhere to hide.

But the real risk isn't just the price at the pump.

It's the data black holes obscuring the true state of our strategic reserves. It's the mismanagement of stock that should protect us. It's a nation exposed, with little room to absorb the next shock.

Prof Rod Crompton and Dr Bruce Young from the African Energy Leadership Centre (AELC) at Wits Business School ask the hard questions, and the answers demand attention.

This article was first published in The Conversation.

Read the full article: https://www.wbs.ac.za/news/wbs-thought-leadership-sas-fuel-supply-and-iran-war-data-black-holes-and-low-strategic-stock

The WBS PhD programme is the largest in South Africa and one of the most highly regarded on the continent. We seek out and bring together top candidates from across Africa to address important topics in their PhD research that are relevant to the advancement of business and society on our continent.

If you are considering furthering your studies in any of the below disciplinary areas offered by WBS, we invite you to find out more at our PhD Information Session on 24 June 2026 at 17h00.

• African philanthropy and social investment
• Digital business
• Energy leadership
• Entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy
• Finance and economics
• Management

Enquiries: [email protected]

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/bdhvv28m

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Exclusive Books Rosebank for the public launch of Change Agents. A full room and a rich conversation on ethical leadership in South Africa.

A special thank you to our guest speakers: Mr Ciko Thomas and Mr Robert Brozin for sharing their leadership journeys with such generosity and honesty, Professor Mills Soko for moderating, and Professor Logan Rangasamy for his introduction.

Bringing these stories of resilience to life is a milestone in our commitment to developing the next generation of ethical leaders.

Change Agents launches publicly at Exclusive Books Rosebank tonight - 23 of South Africa's senior leaders, on what it really takes to lead.

See you there.

📍 Exclusive Books, Rosebank
🕕 18h00, Wednesday 3 June

We congratulate our alumnus Lincoln Mali, CEO of Lesaka Technologies, on two prestigious honours received in the same week.

Lincoln received the Leadership and Legacy Award from the Urban College of Boston, where he also delivered the commencement address and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities. Back home in Johannesburg, he was named Inspirational Leader of the Year at the 2026 Future of Leadership Awards - with his children accepting the honour on his behalf while he was on stage in Boston.

Featured in our book Change Agents: Leadership lessons from 23 of South Africa's senior leaders, Lincoln's journey from adversity to being celebrated on two continents is a testament to resilience and purposeful leadership.
We are proud to call him part of the WBS family.

Read the full story: https://techcentral.co.za/the-remarkable-story-of-lesakas-lincoln-mali/282044/