Dr. Vuyo Mahlati is the Principal Consultant and Co-owner of African Financial Group (AFG) and the current President of the International Women's Forum South Africa. In May 2010 she was appointed by the President to serve as one of the inaugural members of South Africa's National Planning Commission for five years. She formed part of the team that released South Africa's National Development Plan, adopted as the national strategic framework by Cabinet and Parliament in 2012. In March 2009 she was a South African Delegate and Technical Advisor for the Presidency to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women where she presented on the Financial Crisis theme.