Guest Speaker Mosilo Mothepu has sixteen years’ experience in the financial services industry. She worked on several key infrastructure projects, including raising capital for the Airports Company of South Africa in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Like many whistleblowers, she is currently unemployed, but continues to use her voice to fight for justice and dignity for her fellow South Africans. She is a respected speaker on the topics of ethic leadership and motivation, and well as women and corporate governance.

 

Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory in March 2016, a subsidiary of Gupta-linked Trillian Capital Partners. The prospect of being at the helm of a black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. Three months later, suffering from depression and insomnia, she resigned with no other job lined up. 

 

In October 2016, a written statement handed to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela detailing Trillian’s involvement in state capture was leaked to the media. Key to the disclosures were the removals of finance ministers Nhlanhla Nene and Pravin Gordhan from their posts due to the Guptas’ influence. Although she was not identified by name as the source of the affidavit, details of the revelations published in the Sunday Times left no doubt in the minds of Trillian’s executives: Mothepu was the Nenegate whistleblower. 

 

Despite fearing legal consequences, Mothepu had decided that she could not just stand by as the country burnt. Her disclosures resulted in the freezing of Trillian-associated company Regiments Capital’s assets and a High Court order for Trillian to pay back almost R600 million to Eskom. Facing criminal charges and bankruptcy, unemployed and deemed a political risk, Mothepu experienced first-hand the loneliness of whistleblowing. The effect on her mental and physical health was devastating. Now, in Uncaptured, she recounts this troubling yet seminal chapter in her life with honesty, humility and wry humour in the hope that others who find themselves in a similar situation will follow in her footsteps and speak truth to power.

 

- The first behind-the-scenes book on Gupta-linked Trillian’s involvement in state capture, by the woman who was actually in the room and later blew the whistle.
 

- Mothepu was named a Daily Maverick South African Person of the Year in 2017 and won the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation’s Reconciliation Award in 2018.
 

- Whistleblowing and the plight of whistleblowers has received a lot of media attention and is a subject that holds fascination for many South Africans.
 

- The book will appeal to readers interested in current affairs, state capture and true crime.

- Awarded the Reconciliation Award 2017, for her role in combating corruption and advancing reconciliation in South Africa.
  - Ethic leadership and motivational speaker and women and corporate governance speaker.

Guest Speaker Mosilo Mothepu has sixteen years’ experience in the financial services industry. She worked on several key infrastructure projects, including raising capital for the Airports Company of South Africa in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Like many whistleblowers, she is currently unemployed, but continues to use her voice to fight for justice and dignity for her fellow South Africans. She is a respected speaker on the topics of ethic leadership and motivation, an