High-flying Ekurhuleni City Manager Dr Imogen Mashazi Rewriting The rules Of Women’s Empowerment

PEARL RANTSEKENG

HEROES come in capes but not this one – she comes adorned in a dress! She is none other than Dr Imogen Mashazi, the City Manager of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council. Despite her powerful position the feisty, hard-working and self-driven Dr Mashazi has no airs and graces about her.

She has agreed to our interview, on-line via Microsoft Teams, but is quick to add that she is only giving us 10 minutes of her time as she has other matters to attend to.

“After all,” she adds, “I don’t like the media. Zweli (Dlamini) – Chief Specialist Media Relations and spokesperson in her office – will give you all the other things that he has written about me.”

However, twenty minutes later, the accommodative and very passionate Dr Mashazi is freely chatting away about her life. From her days as a nursing sister in Soweto, then her move to