Yamkela Makupula is a businesswoman and a professional in South Africa. She is the Africa CEO of Diaz Reus International Law Firm. She leads the Africa growth strategy of the firm in different African countries. She has forged partnerships in different African countries and working with African governments in solving issues of US Sanctions, the flow of investment in Africa from global investors, the issue of the land for South African traditional leaders among other things.
As a businesswoman, Yamkela is the founder of Ngwenduna Investment Holdings (NHI), a private equity company that she is currently chairing. NIH is invested in Mining, Agriculture, Energy, and Infrastructure. Through NIH, Yamkela has partnered with a farming consortium in the North West Province and in the Eastern Cape where they are planting different kinds of grains and exporting to the international market and other African markets.