Tintswalo Grace Mthembi
Chief Compliance Officerr
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Ms Mthembi Joined Mcanyi Group as a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in November 2025. She is a senior executive responsible for overseeing and managing all compliance-related activities in the entire organization and its subsidiaries. Her role is a strategic function that goes beyond mere regulatory oversight to include shaping ethical culture, managing enterprise-wide risk, and advising the directors on critical decisions.
Key Responsibilities
The CCO’s duties are diverse and cover various aspects of the business across different jurisdictions:
- Strategy and Policy Development: Developing and implementing a cohesive, group-wide compliance framework, including policies and procedures tailored to different business units while maintaining a consistent global approach.
- Risk Management: Conducting regular, enterprise-wide compliance risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities (e.g., third-party risks, data privacy, ESG issues) and developing proposals to manage and avoid them.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Overseeing compliance monitoring and ensuring prompt reporting of the compliance status and any non-compliance issues to the Group board and relevant regulators.
- Training and Communication: Educating and training staff across the group on legal updates, compliance guidelines, and the company’s code of conduct, ensuring a strong “culture of compliance”.
- Liaison and Advisory: Acting as the primary liaison between the organization and regulatory bodies, while also serving as a trusted advisor to management and department heads on regulatory impacts on business decisions.
- Issue Resolution: Establishing clear guidelines and disciplinary measures in responding to potential compliance breaches to ensure recurrence is avoided.
Skills and Qualifications
1994 Baccalaureus Procurations
University of Transkei
2002 Certificate in Mergers and Acquisitions
University of Pretoria
2003 Short Course Alternative Dispute Resolution
Excellante International Business Intelligence Management Centre
2003 Certificate in Legislative Drafting
University of Pretoria
2004 Postgraduate Diploma in Corporate Law
Centre for Business Law, Unisa, and the Law Society of South Africa
Employment History
Jun 1998 – Sep 1998 Professional Assistant
Mohlaba Moshoana Incorporated
September 1998 – Jan 2015 Junior-Senior Attorney
Tintswalo Mthembi & Associates
Jan 2014 –_Feb 2021 Senior Attorney
Maribana Makgoka Incorporated
(Freelanced for the first year while in the
Process of closing her firm)
Jun 2021 – Present Senior Attorney
Tintswalo Mthembi Attorneys
Jun-Present Board member of the Takeover Regulation Panel (A quasi-judicial appointment)
Personal Statement
She is an admitted attorney in good standing with the LPC and has achieved a successful outcome in 90% of contested cases, and has done pro bono work referred by the LPC from time to time, and in deserving cases for individual clients, and is an all-rounder in legislation relating to the practice of law in general. She served her articles of clerkship with the firm Mohlaba Moshoana Incorporated in Pretoria in their litigation department until 1998. Was admitted as an attorney in June 1998 and was offered a position as a professional assistant. She took the position and worked for a period of 3 months, during which period she learned the ability to craft constructive arguments and an in-depth knowledge of the practice of law in general when assisting senior attorneys with pre-trial research and analysis of relevant authorities. Thereafter, she established the firm Tintswalo Mthembi and Associates later in September that year, and practiced third-party law extensively, and was on the panel of Alexander Forbes on their medical third-party claim department.
Contact reference: Doris/Monice (Alexander Forbes)
Tel: 011 669 3251
Fax:011 669 2529
She also:
Established and registered a legal entity (Sheepfold Project) for the Department of Land Affairs
Reference: Mr. Chris Mulaudzi
Tel: (012) 310 6531
Did debt collection for Rand Water (Odi)
Reference: Mr. Taetsane J.T
Tel: (012) 702 1155/6
Redrafted the Greater Tzaneen Municipality By-Laws and delegation of power in conjunction with Umnotho Development
Reference: Mr. Maake E.S
Tel: (015) 307 8000
Contract Appointments
Acted as a Magistrate in Pretoria from January 2004 until early 2005.
Reference: Control Magistrate Sarie Snyman (Retired).
Tel: (012) 319 4000
Control Prosecutor: Chantelle Stevens.
Tel: (012) 319 4000
Cell: 071 433 0680.
Free-lanced with Maribana Makgoka Inc., former panel attorneys of the Road Accident Fund from 2014 until 2015 when she closed her practice aforesaid and took a permanent position in their litigation department until February 2021 when she took a voluntary retrenchment.
Reference: Mr. M Makgoka
Tel: (011) 325 3470
Cell: 082 408 9460.
She commenced practicing for her own account in March (in principle) 2021, and (officially) in June 2021 as a sole proprietor.
