Many years ago, Mpho Phalatse became qualified as a medical doctor and started an internship at Tembisa Hospital. This was followed by community service in Hammanskraal, where she offered services at Jubilee Hospital as well as various clinics within the area.

She also spent six years of her career exploring service delivery models in different contexts such as mining houses, and proceeded to register her own company, rendering disability consulting services to SASSA in both Gauteng and the North-West.

She is the former MMC for Health and Social Development, she was also appointed as a Medical Advisor in the Compensation Commission 

Title:                          [• Dr (Ms).]

Name:                        [• Mpho Phalatse]

Position AND org.:   [• Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg ] 

Title:                          [• Adv. Ms.]

Name:                        [• Thuli Madonsela