Sipho Zikode – Deputy Director General: Empowerment Enterprise Development Division of the
Department of Trade and Industry Appointed: April 2011
Sipho joined the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) in 1997, initially as a
Techno Economist in the Technology Promotion Division, having graduated from the University of the
Witwatersrand with B.Comm (Economics) along with a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing
Management from the University of South Africa, and a National diploma in Chemical Engineering
from Mangosutho Technikon. Following a short spell on Secondment as Deputy Director and Sector
Technical Director at the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology he returned to the dti
in 1999 rising from Deputy Director Defence Portfolio to the position as Chief Director Industrial
Participation, a position he took up in 2003, having in the interim, been awarded an MBA by the
University of Pretoria where he was also awarded a Certificate for Technological Innovation:
managing the dynamics of technological change.
In 2011 he was appointed as the Deputy Director General of the Empowerment Enterprise
Development Division (EEDD).
