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CPO Breakfast · 22 September 2026
Sandile Makhathini

Sandile Makhathini

Head of Procurement

Industrial Development Corporation

Sandile leads procurement at the Industrial Development Corporation, with deep experience in public procurement. At Sasria SOC he reformed the procurement function, improving operational efficiency, strengthening governance, automating the process and delivering clean audits year after year.

His particular interest is the public procurement legal framework and the policy that runs through it, which has made sourcing strategies for preferential procurement and supplier development a consistent thread in his work. MCIPS, with postgraduate diplomas from Stellenbosch and the Wits School of Governance.