Job Title: CIO
Company: Cross-Border Road Transport Agency
Tintswalo Shilowa is the chief information officer at the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency. She has held this position since 2017, following her role as CIO at the National Health Laboratory Service from 2016 to 2017. Prior to that, Tintswalo served as group CIO at SABS between 2011 and 2016, driving enterprise-wide IT initiatives.
Her extensive career also includes leadership roles in government agencies such as the Agricultural Research Company, Home Affairs and National Treasury, where she contributed to IT systems integration and business systems management. Tintswalo’s educational background includes a master’s in IT from the University of Pretoria and a bachelor's in IT and software development from the University of South Africa.
Tintswalo was nominated for the 2025 CIO Awards.
Work
2017 – Present CIO, Cross-Border Transport Agency
2016 – 2017 CIO, National Health Laboratory Service
2011 – 2016 Group CIO, SABS
2008 – 2011 Head of IT: Information & Communication Technology, Agricultural Research Company
2005 – 2008 Business Systems Management Director, Home Affairs
2003 – 2005 Deputy Director of Systems Integration, National Treasury
1999 – 2003 Analyst Programmer, National Intelligence Agency
1998 – 1998 Programmer, Kentron (Denel)
1996 – 1998 Senior Programmer, Statistics South Africa
Education
2011 – 2020 Master’s in Information Technology, University of Pretoria
1996 Bachelor’s in Information Technology, University of South Africa
1993 – 1995 National Diploma in IT Management, Tshwane University of Technology
About company: The Cross-Border Road Transport Agency is a South African government agency that facilitates and regulates cross-border road transport within the SADC region.
