Given was appointed to the board on 13 May 2019. She is a Chartered Accountant and until 31 August 2014 was Head: Internal Audit at SekelaXabiso (Pty) Limited. She has over 30 years’ experience in internal and external auditing, risk management, management consulting, corporate governance and forensic auditing. Prior to joining SekelaXabiso Proprietary Limited, she spent nine years at SizweNtsaluba VSP where she was Director: Forensics and where from 2005 she headed the Corporate Governance Services Division. She served articles at KPMG Aiken & Peat from 1991 to early 1994, and subsequently worked for Anglo American Corporation as an internal auditor in the Group Audit Services Department from April 1994 to May 1996.
She has served as a member of the audit and risk committee for a number of entities, including as chairperson of the audit committee for Basil Read Holdings Limited, South African Express Airways SOC Limited, Brand South Africa and the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association (CAPASSO). She previously served as a non-executive director and then Chief Operating Officer of Chapter Zero Southern Africa. Until March 2026, she was a non-executive board member of Ithala SOC Limited, where she chaired both the audit and compliance committee and the social, ethics and sustainability committee. She served as an audit committee member of the Presidency for three years and as chairperson for a further 3 years until December 2022. She currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and has been appointed as a non-executive director for Divercity Urban Property Group (Pty) Ltd from October 2025.
