CEO of Frank Dialogue Holdings and Sgwili Media Group.
Prof JJ Tabane is a Professor of Communications at the University of South Africa (UNISA) School of Business Leadership and Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at the University of Botswana.
He is a sessional lecturer at Wits University and Wits School of Governance. He is the Editor of Leadership and BBQ Magazines and former anchor of the award-winning show, Power to Truth with Professor JJ Tabane at eNCA.
Prof Tabane started crafting his skills in strategic communications in 1989 when at the age of only 2 5 he became a ministerial spokesperson of the then Department of Constitutional Development under former Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa. In 2002, he was selected as the inaugural joint winner of the Government Communicator of the year.
Since then, he has held roles as Communications Advisor for the then Chamber of Mines, Communications Advisor of the African Development Bank for the APRM (AU’s governance advisory body) representing 40 countries, Vice President of Communications for the South African Airways in 2006, consultant to Brand South Africa and Water Research Commission, convenor of the National Communications Task Team, First Chief Information Officer of the Congress of the People (COPE), CEO of an investor relations company Graphicor Pty Ltd, a subsidy of a JSE listed ADCORP, and as Group Executive Corporate Affairs with a mandate to drive a 5-year transformation strategy.
He has served or serves on the boards of the multibillion JSE listed company Altron, Powertech and UWC Foundation, Former Chairperson of the UWC Media Society, Chair of finance at UWC and Transformation at North- West University, and as council member of the North-West University and the UWC.
He holds a BA degree from the University of Limpopo, a BProc degree from University of the Western Cape (UWC), a master’s degree in political economy from the Nelson Mandela University (NMMU) and PhD in Media Studies from Wits University, and completed leadership programmes at Wits University Wits Business School and UCT Business School.
