Sello Rasethaba

Sello Mashao Rasethaba was born in Musina (then Messina) on 19 February 1958 in Limpopo) is a South African businessman and politician.

Rasethaba is currently an Executive Director at Mediterranean Shipping Company. It is while serving in this position that Sello immersed himself in port operations and regulatory activities. He has made presentations to the Ports Regulator on Transnet National Port Authority Tariff Applications. Rasethaba is also the Chairman of The Lobbying Corporation of South Africa and Xpanse Investment Holdings.

Sello's interests include shipping, transport and logistics in addition to transformation of both government and business organisations. Sello also claims experience, covering functions involved in the formulation, development and implementation of information technology strategies obtained in the Republic of South Africa, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

After completing High School education at Setotolwane High School. Sello worked for Lebowa Transport (now Great North Transport) and resigned to serve Articles of Clerkship with an accounting firm (Mentzel, Rudman & Company) in Polokwane (then Pietersburg). In the early 1980s he served a stint in jail at the Victor Verster Prison where he was held without trial under apartheid security laws. Upon his release, Sello enrolled at the University of the North (now the University of Limpopo) and did not finish his academic programme because of political activism and in 1982 left South Africa for the United States of America. He received a BA with a major in Accounting and German as a minor subject from the University of Northern Iowa in the United States of America. He spent the summer of 1985 in the small Austrian village of St.Radegund furthering his understanding and knowledge of the German language. Sello read for a Masters of Philosophy (Accounting) from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom with the topic,"The role of accountants in the formulation of information technology strategies."

As a student at UNI, Sello worked at International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) Software Group in Bloomington, MN. Upon finishing his studies he worked for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE: DD, DDPRB, DDPRA), commonly referred to as DuPont, an American chemical company in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1987, Sello left the USA for Hull in the United Kingdom in 1987.During his studies, Sello was one of the pioneers who started the Black Resource Centre based at Old Library Building, Manchester, England. Upon his return to South Africa, he joined Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers – PwC)) as a management consultant. Until 1999, Sello was a Regional Director at Ernst & Young Management Consulting Services in Johannesburg. He was also the national sales and marketing executive responsible for new business development. Sello established the consultancy, Matodzi Management Advisory Services and later an insolvency practice, GFIA Administrators who were instrumental in the winding up of the Dealstream Securities fraud.

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