About Us

DRM Investments Management Consulting & Agencies is a 100% Black Owned company situated in Sandton Johannesburg, South Africa.

With over 15 years experience focuses on Government, Donor Agencies, Parastatals, Private Sector and other International players, enhancing economic viable industries of South Africa and the SADC region.

DRM Investments helps various clients deliver the right output, on time and on budget, utilizing resources wisely. DRM Investments is equipped with extensive knowledge in people management and resource management that harness professionals that understands our various clients’ objectives.

Vision

To create employment opportunities for the previously disadvantaged Individuals and groups, with the aim to eradicate poverty and to promote social economic freedom.

Mission

To provide a strategic direction in facilitation and implementing services of the highest international standards in any economic viable sector, thereby contributing to the integration of the SADC economy, thus embracing the overall objectives of partners and acknowledging the diverse needs of stakeholders.

Management

CEO

Dr. TEMBEKA MLAULI is an economist, sector developmental specialist, a business oriented strategist, with a proven leadership, management skills and a productivity focused manager with excellent communication skills and a successful track record in negotiations, strategic partnerships in textiles, clothing, tourism; automotives; agro processing; chemicals; mining; arts & culture sector development in South Africa, SADC and globally. She is holding Msc in textiles & clothing international marketing & distribution where she majored in textiles & clothing economics, textiles policies such as GATT, MFA etc. in Manchester-UK and finally studied a PhD where she specialized in clothing ergonomics, economics and international marketing. She is empowered with a worldwide textiles experience.

She has experience in lecturing in two South African Technikons, running her own Design studio, being a garment technologist at one of merchandising subsidiaries for Edcon Group, a researcher at the CSIR She has contributed tremendously in textiles and clothing sector policy development as a Director for three (3) years within the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) in South Africa. Amongst the highlights of her career within the DTI, she facilitated the development of Cleaner Textiles Production, partnering with Danish Government. She facilitated the Danish/ South African Government T&C initiative aiming at increasing its competitiveness and productivity capacity of Textiles & Clothing through building National capacity in cleaner production, fostering dialogue between industry and government thereby enhancing investments in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies. This initiative considered cleaner production throughout the pipeline, i.e. from cotton growers through to the textile manufacturers and the end product users (clothing and retail sectors) & finally developing a guideline that assisted the industry in saving tremendous amount of water managing to retrieve some drawbacks during textiles processing. She facilitated the development of Country of Origin Labelling Legislation, which was intending to segregate between the import from that of the local manufactured goods, saving tremendous amount of jobs and reduced dumping and illegal imports. Amongst other highlights of her career, she facilitated the development and implementation of Workplace Challenge Programme aimed at improving T&C productivity and competitiveness through collaboration between employers and workers, improving workplace practices, best operating practices and world class manufacturing, where in one company they managed R45,000.00 cost reduction p/unit.

She facilitated the establishment and chaired of a committee that was responsible for monitoring & provide strategic & policy direction of DCCS to the T&C industry.

Some initiatives included the development of the designers, which resulted to designers such as Stone Cherrie and other designers supplying Stuttafords and Woolworths. Dr. Mlauli became the voice of the designers in the entire South African government and stakeholders, whereby she became the first government official to facilitate that the HDI designers to showcase their designs in S.A. Fashion Week. Additional to this experience she has been exposed to successfully manage Investments and exports of all sectors for KZN Province at a Chief Director level, managing to bring back a committed investment on her first trip to China and leading the investment delegation in 2004. She was a chief director for the following sectors: Tourism, Agro-processing, Mining, Chemicals, Automotives, Arts & Cultural Industries and Textiles & Clothing. She was also a Senior Manager in Gauteng Tourism for a period of one year where amongst other initiatives she was a driver of ASGISA through MIPTEK Committee chaired by the DG of DEAT where she became one of the facilitators of tourism development, gearing them for 2010 and beyond.

Dr.Mlauli held a  DDG: Sector Specialist at the Department of Economic Development Environment and Tourism responsible to provide strategic and technical support in formulation and implementation of Province’s economic growth and development path; provide strategic direction in sector reforms; and coordinate the development of the priority sectors in Mpumalanga; identifying development, growth and beneficiation opportunities and advise on improving on the competitiveness of the sectors in Mpumalanga. She was responsible to support and participate in all relevant Provincial and National structures and mandated to lead and facilitate dialogues in all priority sectors across Departments. Amongst other KPAs, she was responsible for Mining, Energy and Mining, infrastructure sector value chain development. She was also responsible for development of economic turnaround strategies for the 7 CRDP Municipalities in Mpumalanga. She was nominated as a Provincial HRDS steering committee member. Amongst other responsibilities, she was a Chairperson for Kusile Eskom/ Mpumalanga Government Technical forum.