SMVAF APPOINTS ACTING CEO

MBABANE – Max Bonginkhosi Mkhonta has been appointed as the acting Chief Executive Officer at Sincephetelo Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (SMVAF).
This was confirmed by the Corporate Communications Manager, Makhosi Magongo, yesterday.

Mkhonta’s takeover, albeit on an acting basis, comes after the non- renewal of Helmon Vilakati’s contract. The current Ministry of Finance Principal Secretary (PS), Sizakele Dlamini, also briefly acted in the same position.

According to Magongo, Mkhonta’s appointment was for a period of six months. However, he said the Board had initiated the process of recruiting a substantive CEO and indeed, an advert calling for interested parties to apply for the position had been running in the local newspapers.

Hiring

“In view of that, Mkhonta will hold the fort until that process of hiring a CEO is concluded and necessary authorities approve the candidate who would have been selected during the recruitment,” Magongo said.

Meanwhile, Mkhonta was hired by the Fund on October 2, 2019 as the Corporate Services Executive. He has since moved to the rank of acting CEO in a short space of time. In a previous interview with this publication, Dlamini (PS), confirmed the recruitment of Mkhonta as the Corporate Services Executive for SMVAF. She said he had been hired on a three-year contract as was the norm for all executive positions.

Further, she also confirmed that SMVAF sought to find a suitably qualified candidate for the vacancy against the requirement as issued in the advertisement/ job specification.

According to Dlamini, Mkhonta had presented a responsive skills set, knowledge, experience and attributes for the position against which candidates were all assessed. The PS further explained that the position of Corporate Services Executive was new within the Fund and it had been necessitated by the need to urgently transform the organisation to be more client centric, to improve operational efficiencies and people accountability, and reduce operational costs while ensuring that all change initiatives were anchored on an effective project and strategic management capability.

Challenges

Dlamini said the current challenges facing the organisation required qualified and experienced personnel to complement existing resources.
Further, she said both the recruitment of Mkhonta into this position as well as the ongoing recruitment of the CEO would bring the necessary leadership depth into the Fund.

Part of Mkhonta’s core duties in his previous position included being responsible for strategy management, human resource management, corporate communications and administration.

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