Andile TLHOAELE is the chairperson of the BBBEE ICT sector charter council elected in 2018 and re-
elected again in 2020 for a term of four years ending in 2024. TLHOAELE has been part of the
development of the ICT sector code since 2004, when it was still led by the ICT industry. He is also an
elected non-executive chairperson of the EPR Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA) and
chairperson of the MICT SETA 4IR-Policy Advisory Committee since 2019.
TLHOAELE has co-founded several businesses including Genesis Youth Enterprise (Soweto, 1998),
Loxion Foods cc (Soweto, 2002), Inforcomm (Pty) Ltd (Pretoria, 2005), BEEandYourBusiness.com
(Soweto, 2009) and Moja Centres (Pty) Ltd (Sandton, 2018). He is also a former visiting lecture at the
University of Johannesburg Soweto campus (Soweto, 2011) and facilitator at the Word Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO) Summer Schools in South Africa since 2019. TLHOAELE also co-
founded Moja Centres (Pty) Ltd – the first programme to use design thinking on enterprise & supplier
development to support ICT entrepreneurs. Moja Centres was established out of a resolution of the first
ICT SMME Summit which was held in Sandton in 2018.
TLHOAELE completed the BBBEE Management Development Programme with Unisa, the Harvard
Business School’s (HBS) Key Executive Programme on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation in Boston,
Massachusetts US and is currently enrolled at Varsity College for a B-Comm in Entrepreneurship
online. TLHOAELE is a keen golfer, loves reading business books and spends most of his time
facilitating design thinking. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA) since
2012.