THE ELEXIONS AGENCY / PROFILE
OUR TOP WOMAN Bontle Mpakanyane, Executive Director
Bontle Mpakanyane is a highly skilled election management specialist with a prestigious background as Presiding Officer for a number of high profile elections both in the political, trade union, civic, and corporate trustee elections for medical schemes and pension/ provident funds. She has conducted highly complex processes using tailor-made technological innovation and manual systems to enhance free, fair, and credible processes. She works closely with a number of top firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers and KMPG.
COMPANY PROFILE
CONTACT INFORMATION
Year founded: 2007
Executive Director: Bontle Mpakanyane
Number of employees: Two full time staff and a panel of election support staff across all
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provinces of South Africa, mostly women that are unemployed.
GENDER EMPOWERMENT LEVEL 1
Branches: Based in Parktown, Johannesburg.
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Female shareholders
100%
Our vision is a South Africa in which credible democratic processes and good corporate
Female staff members
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governance is common place across all private and public institutions.
Percentage of female staff member
100%
Percentage of black female shareholder
56%
Percentage of black female executive
51%
directors/senior management Percentage of black female staff members
100%
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In terms of our mission, our aim is to achieve our vision by making available to our clients a range of professional and cost effective technical expertise in the field of democratic
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electoral solutions that ensure compliance, credibility and legitimacy.
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The Agency has developed a comprehensive menu of services that are tailor-made to suit
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the individual needs of each client. Our primary concern is to ensure that we add significant value to our clients by offering turnkey solutions, inclusive of e-voting technologies that meet their individual needs. We therefore seek to build long term partnerships so that our clients
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are able to realise full value for their money.
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Over the years the Agency has used electronic vote counting systems only. The last eighteen
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months has seen technological innovation gain momentum in relation to both e-voting and counting systems which are tree-friendly and are responsible for increased voter turnout. Variations of the above have been used in both the political and corporate scenarios.
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Physical Address: 158 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown, 2193 Postal address: PO Box 3318, Houghton 2041
Elexions-Agency
Telephone: 011 027-6201 Fax: 086 651 8279 Email: info@elexionsagency.co.za Website: www.elexionsagency.co.za
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