Stephanie Forbes

I completed matric at St. Andrews Girls School in Gauteng and then completed my Cambridge University A levels at St. John’s Collage. My tertiary education was at Wits where I completed a BA Hon in Sociology.

I started my career at SBS Household Appliances, now Smeg, and moved to the Western Cape to assist in opening their Cape Town office.

After starting a family I moved to work with the Kitchen Specialists Association, and after several years of running KSA Cape Town I was promoted to National Manager of the association, which also makes me a director of the association. 

With a key component part of the association being the consumer, I implemented that all KSA staff dealing with consumer issues must have completed a mediation course and be a registered mediator. Consumer issues, advice, and guidance as well as dispute resolution remain a key part of the KSA’s daily activities.

Recently KSA has aligned itself with SAFI (the South African Furniture Initiative). We are working with organisations like DTI, SARS and IDC on a Furniture Industry Masterplan. I was nominated to the SAFI BOD in 2021 and I currently also chair the SAFI kitchen chamber as part of the master plan initiative.