Lisa Seftel started out in the labour movement before she took up positions in government. Now, as the head of Nedlac, she has to create a space where both sides can meet to discuss and debate important policy issues
Lisa Seftel, the newly appointed executive director of the National Economic Development and Labour Council , feels it’s too early for her to be giving interviews.
The announcement last month that Seftel would be taking over the helm at Nedlac — where government, labour, business and community organisations go to sign off on the country’s social and economic policies — came in the wake of heated debates by legislators and other stakeholders about the council’s relevance.“Now I’m white, I’m old and I don’t have a master’s.
In 1990, Seftel began working at trade union federation Cosatu as a campaign co-ordinator. During this time she worked with Jayendra Naidoo, who would eventually become the first executive director of Nedlac in 1995. She calls her experience at Cosatu “a privilege”. In 1995, Seftel joined the department of labour as its director of minimum standards, the directorate responsible for extending the Basic Conditions of Employment Act to workers.
It was during her time as the executive director for transport in the City of Johannesburg that Seftel took on one of the most mammoth undertakings of her career — implementing the Rea Vaya bus rapid transit system. She held the position for more than a decade.
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