Thokozile is an admitted attorney and seasoned infrastructure development professional with over 12 years' experience having worked for multinational companies like Norton Rose Fulbright, Citibank, and E.ON Energy and is currently the COO of Bayakha Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure fund manager with a mandate to make equity investments in large scale energy, water, ICT and Transport infrastructure projects. She is passionate about skills development and regularly facilitates training for Development Finance Institutions with the Association of African Development Finance Institutions and conducts masterclasses for SMMEs as part of corporate Enterprise and Supplier Development Programmes. Thokozile has served on various public and private sector committees, including the South African Local Government Youth Development Forum Energy Working Committee, the BRICS Women Business Alliance Energy Security Subcommittee, the Climate Council's Working Group for Women's Access to Energy Finance and she chairs the Chaba Winds of Change Community Trust. Thokozile's work in socio-economic development includes founding READPower, a social investment initiative that donates solar lights to enable children to read and do their homework as night. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and an alumna of the Power Africa/YALI Women in African Power Programme.