BAIC SA appoints Batandwa Mdyesha as new CFO
Batandwa Mdyesha has been appointed as BAIC South Africa's new chief financial officer (CFO) with immediate effect.
Between 2009-2017, Mdyesha worked in senior accounting, auditing and financial roles at South African state-owned enterprises, and she worked in the private sector at a leading accounting and professional services firm’s operations in South Africa and the Netherlands between 2002–2008.
“We look forward to welcoming Mdyesha to our South African operation, we wish her well in this senior leadership role, and look forward to her strategic and leadership contributions to make our South African and African operations successful,” said BAIC International Vice President Li Xiaofan.
Speaking on the construction of BAIC’s plant in Port Elizabeth, Mdyesha says that major construction contracts are in an advanced stage of being awarded, with a portion of it aimed at SMMEs. “At present, we are working hard to ensure that the greenfields investment of our new automotive plant has a meaningful impact and effect in Nelson Mandela Bay,” she said.
Mdyesha will be based at BAIC SA’s head office in Johannesburg.
