Yvonne Mkefa

About Yvonne

Yvonne joined Eskom as a graduate intern in 2001. She completed her articles at Kathdrada Norval Rice and Patel Attorneys and retained as an Associate. She moved to Parrott van Niekerk & Woodhouse Incorporated as a Senior Associate where she independently managed her practice, which was largely comprised of litigating in the Labour Court. Amongst the clients that Yvonne represented are both 2 of the biggest FMCG retailers in South Africa (Shoprite and Makro) and mining companies (De Beers and Anglogold Ashanti).

In 2008 Yvonne joined Cliffe Dekker Incorporated as a Senior Associate. Later in 2008 Yvonne took her first non-practice role as an Employee Relations Consultant at Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Limited, a subsidiary of Eskom SOC Limited.

In 2010 she moved to South African Airways SOC Limited as an Employee Relations Specialist and HR Legal Advisor. When Yvonne joined SAA she was placed in the acting HoD position in the Employee Relations department while the recruitment process was underway. After 5 years, in 2016, Yvonne moved to Cape Town to join Old Mutual Limited as a Senior Human Resources Manager: Industrial and Stakeholder Relations. In 2018 she was promoted to Group Employee Relations Executive responsible for Employee Relations, Ethics Management and HR Litigation. In 2020 Yvonne acted in the Human Capital Director position.

In 2021 Yvonne's portfolio was expanded to include Employment Equity. She was also formally co-opted onto the Group Legal's Executive Committee as the Legal Executive responsible for Human Capital matters with a dual reporting line to Old Mutual's General Counsel, hence the change in the naming convention of the role to Group Employment Relations Executive.