Executive Management
Patrick Dlamini: Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Patrick Khulekani Dlamini was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Air Traffic and Navigation Services in 2009. Prior to joining ATNS Patrick held several positions including Executive Vice President & General Manager: Cargo, South African Airways, and Business Unit Executive-MPT in Transnet Limited. Mr. Dlamini studied at the University of Durban-Westville where he graduated and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree.
He completed the Executive Development Programme through the University of the Witwatersrand’s Business School which included visiting world class companies in the USA. Patrick has also completed a Director Development Programme at the Institute of Directors (IOD) and is a member of the IOD.Serving on a number of committees Mr. Dlamini was a non-executive director of Joburg Water (Pty) Limited.
Dumisani H. Sangweni: Executive in the office of the CEO
To date Dumisani Sangweni has worked in the airline industry, transport sector and broader corporate and public sectors at a business analyst, consulting and executive management level spanning a period of approximately 15 years.
He graduated from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (USA, 1991) with an undergraduate BSc. Degree in Aviation Technology and completed a Post Graduate Diplomas in Transport Economics and Business Administration (PBL) from the Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg (RAU, 1997) and University of South Africa (UNISA, 1999), respectively. He has applied these practical administration and analytical skills in different working environments and developed management experience in key commercial and administrative areas.
Dumisani was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) by the ATCL Board in 2004, a joint venture company between South African Airways and the Government of Tanzania. During his tenure as MD and CEO he drove the turnaround effort of the airline until a Shareholder impasse that culminated in a decision by the Shareholders to terminate the joint venture in 2007.
Prior to this Dumisani held various commercial executive management roles at SAA including serving as Executive Manager–Alliances Africa and Middle East. He has also worked in the automobile, general aviation and general transport industries, at a management and consulting level including a management training program at Daimler Chrysler Parts Division (1999), contracted at a consultancy level in the transport policy at the Centre for Logistic Management South Africa, Department of Transport Economics, Rand Afrikaans University (1996), and in a sales and marketing capacity at Hunting Aviation, an Aircraft Maintenance Organisation [AMO] that was based at Rand Airport (1995).
Hennie Marais: Executive ATM
Hennie Marais started his career in aviation in 1980 and obtained Aerodrome, Approach and Area Procedural and Radar validations. He has worked as an Aerodrome, Approach and Area Procedural and Radar controller at various airports and Air Traffic Control Centres within South Africa and also served as an on-job-training-instructor and Validation Examiner. He has served as the Head of ATS Training and manager Compliance and Standards at the Aviation Training Academy.
In September 2004 he was transferred to the Isando Corporate Offices as Manager: Standards Assurance. In this post he was responsible for the safety and regulatory oversight function within the company. He was appointed as Senior Manager ATM Planning, Research and Development at the ATM/cns Department in Isando from July 2006and was responsible for the strategic planning of the ATM services to be delivered by ATNS into the future.
Mr. Marais is a member of the ICAO ATM Requirements and Performance Panel.
Peter Marais: Executive Operations
Peter is a graduate electronics engineer and registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa. He was previously the principal radar engineer at the National Department of Transport, engineering manager for ATNS, general manager technical services for ATNS, executive manager training for ATNS and Executive Manager ATM/cns. He is the chairperson of the South African Development Community's upper airspace control centre steering committee and represents ATNS in regional and international bodies responsible for planning communication, navigation and surveillance infrastructure in the region. He also chaired the cns committee of the ICAO 11th Air Navigation Conference. He has completed the UNISA Business School's advanced Executive Management Programme.
Rushj Lehutso: Executive Commercial Services
In the public sector, Rushj was the Chief Operations Officer for the City of Cape Town before he joined South African Airways as the Commercial Director in 2006.
Tebogo Makoe: Executive Human Capital
Ms Tebogo Makoe is a University of Cape Town undergraduate with a B. Social Science degree. She also holds a Masters in Arts degree from Wits University. Tebogo obtained a Senior Executive Certificate from the Harvard Business School. At the Gordon Institute of Business Science she completed her Executive Development Programme.
Tebogo has extensive experience in occupying senior positions in the fields of Human Resources and People Management . Previously held positions range from Management Consultant in People Management Discipline, Senior HR Manager, Operations Director as well as Divisional Director: HR. Her experience has been in various sectors and industries such as the Department of Health, Ernst & Young, I.C.A.S., Eskom and Barloworld.Thabani Mthiyane: Executive Engineering and Technical Services
Thabani holds a BEng (Hon) Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria. He also obtained a BSc Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal and a National Diploma in Electronic Engineering from Technikon Natal.
Upon qualifying as a graduate engineer, he joined Eskom's Engineering Division and held two positions; one as a Maintenance and Refurbishment Controller and the other as a Senior Planning Engineer. He has also worked as the National Senior Electrical Engineer for the National Ports Authority of South Africa.
He joined ATNS as the Technical Support Manager (Policy & Development) responsible for maintenance and logistics support oversight and was later appointed in the position of Senior Manager Engineering Projects. Thabani is a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). He is also a member of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).
William Ndlovu: Acting Chief Financial Officer
