Chantyl Mulder

Chantyl joined SAICA in 1999 as head of the Education and Training Division. A year later, she was tasked with crafting programmes that would assist in transforming and growing the profession in a manner reflective of the country’s race and gender realities. Through this, the Thuthuka Education Upliftment Fund was established in 2002 and its first flagship programme launched in the Eastern Cape. Also under the guidance of Chantyl, the Thuthuka Bursary Fund was established in 2005, followed by The Hope Factory in 2006 and the AT(SA) in 2010. Since inception, these initiatives have raised nearly R3 billion in independent funding.

Chantyl is a former Central University of Technology council member and is currently a Walter Sisulu University council member and chair of the Finance Committee. She also sits on the HRDC’s Technical Working Group chaired by the Deputy President. The President of South Africa has also elected Chantyl to serve for another term on the Presidential Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Council. Through SAICA, Chantyl is currently running a R200 million project with the Department of Higher Education and Training to assist TVET colleges in the area of financial capacity-building. Chantyl was instrumental in drafting the CA Charter and leading the administrative duties associated with the Charter Council. She also served on the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) as a technical advisor when the first education and training standards were determined.