EXECUTIVE TEAM
Ayesha Swalah
Chief Financial Officer
Ayesha Swalah is the Chief Financial Officer; she is responsible for ensuring sound financial management of the organisation and has guided Dube TradePort Corporation to clean audits for the last decade.
Owen Mungwe
Executive: Development, Planning and Infrastructure, Dube TradePort Corporation.
Owen Mungwe is the Development, Planning and Infrastructure, Executive within Dube TradePort Corporation. He drives the planning and development of new infrastructure projects, as well as ensuring the environmental compliance of
Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s developments.
Owen has also been instrumental in leading the development of the Durban Aerotropolis Master Plan. Which set to create a smart city around Durban’s King Shaka International Airport, that will cover an area of 32 000ha’s and create an estimated 750 000 job opportunities over the next
50-years.
Hamish Erskine
Chief Executive Officer
Hamish Erskine is the Chief Executive Officer of Dube TradePort Corporation, the driver of the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone, which is developing a world-class manufacturing and air logistics platform around King Shaka International Airport that forms the heart of the emerging Durban Aerotropolis, of which Dube TradePort is the implementing agent.
Mr Erskine also serves as the co-Chair of the KwaZulu-Natal Route Development Committee (Durban Direct), which is responsible for attracting new airlines to fly directly into Durban, enabling greater global connectivity for both passengers and airfreight.
Mlibo Bantwini
Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone, Executive Dube AgriZone and Dube Cargo Terminal
Mlibo Bantwini is the Dube AgriZone and Dube Cargo Terminal Executive within Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone.
The work of the Dube AgriZone, he works to stimulate the growth of KwaZulu-Natal’s high-value perishables sector, while through the Dube Cargo Terminal he has a valuable role in facilitating a key connection into global supply chains for perishables and other time-sensitive high-value goods.
Kaya Ngqaka
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Ngqaka is Chief Operations Officer, at Dube TradePort Corporation operator of the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone. He is responsible for the implementation of the Special Economic Zone, investment attraction, One Stop Shop, commercial property development, and property operations.
Mr. Ngqaka has a Master in Economics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (PMB).
He began his career teaching economics at the Walter Sisulu and Pretoria Universities respectively, thereafter spent the bulk of his career in government, first with National Treasury and the Department of Transport followed by Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI), where he led the development of South Africa’s policy and legislative framework on the Special Economic Zones. During his tenure at the DTI, he was also involved in the formulation of the Special Economic Zone Fund, the development of the One Stop Shop Model and the management of incentive programmes that have attracted over R 70 billion investments into South Africa.
Nolufefe Ali
Executive, Corporate Services, Dube TradePort Corporation.
Nolufefe Ali is the Corporate Services Executive; for Dube TradePort Corporation her strategic and operational knowledge within various industries, that align with the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s priority sectors, which includes Automotive and the Electronics bring valuable experience to the organization.