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The OSF - SA Board |
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Zyda Rylands (Chair)
Director of People at Woolworths’ head office, Zyda Rylands is a qualified accountant and has held financial positions at several large corporations. She serves on the boards of a number of schools and technikons and in 1997 received the Black Management Forum’s Manager of the Year Award. She was nominated among the top ten for the Impumelelo/BMF Business Personality of the Year in 2001 for her achievements.
Nomsa Masuku
Nomsa completed her junior degree at the University of Swaziland majoring in English Languages and Literature and African Languages and Literature. She went on to do her Masters in Arts (Linguistics) and Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language at the University of Sydney, Australia. She then did her PhD in the area of Applied English Linguistics (Text Linguistics/Discourse Analysis and Construction of Knowledge) at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
She was employed by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa for eight years where her portfolio included the strategic development of programmes that assist the Commission to contribute to the entrenchment of constitutional democracy. She also had oversight over the Commission’s provision and promotion of voter and balloting education. She is currently employed by Standard Bank as the Head of Corporate Social Investment.
Barney Mthombothi
Barney Mthombothi is currently editor of Financial Mail. He joined this leading financial magazine January 1, 2005. He was the editor of Sunday Tribune, Independent Newspapers' flagship in KwaZulu Natal, a position he took up in 2003. He had last worked at the Sunday Tribune as a young reporter in the 1980s.
Previously, he was editor-in-chief of SABC radio news, leaving that position in 1999. After a stint at the Financial Mail as an editor-at-large, he rejoined the SABC in November 2000 as chief executive of SABC news - the result of a merger of the radio news and television news divisions. He left the SABC in July 2002.
One of SA's most highly respected editors, Mthombothi has also held senior positions at The Star and the Sowetan. He is a Niemann fellow of Harvard University and a former Reuters fellow at Oxford University
Kate O'Regan
Kate O'Regan served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 till 2009 when her fifteen-year term ended. Since then she has served as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia (from 2010), chairperson of the United Nations Internal Justice Council (from 2008), a body established by the General Assembly to help ensure "independence, professionalism and accountability" in the internal system of justice within the United Nations, President of the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal (2011 - ) and as a member of the boards of several South African and international NGOs working in the field of equality and human rights.
She is also a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town.
Edgar Pieterse
Edgar Pieterse is holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy. He directs the African Centre for Cities and is Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, both at the University of Cape Town. He previously served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government (2004-2007) and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his stint in governm ent.
His most recent books are: City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development (Zed Books, 2008); Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town region (edited, Jacana, 2010); The African Cities Reader: Pan-African Practices (co-edited, Chimurenga Lab, 2010); Consolidating Developmental Local Government (co-edited, UCT Press, 2008) and a notable earlier book: Voices of the Transition: The Politics, Poetics and Practices of Development in South Africa (co-edited, Heinemann Publishers, 2004). The next African Cities Reader: Mobilities & Fixtures, is due for publication by mid 2011. Edgar’s research stem from the boderzone between geography, plann ing and cultural studies with a strong orientation towards political philosophy. As a result his research is wide-ranging covering themes such as African urbanism, cultural planning, regional development, governance, infrastructure transitions, and macro development issues.
He is a founder member of Isandla Institute, serves on the Boards of Magnet Theatre, the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Gauteng City-region Observatory, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, LSE Cities, and the Low Carbon Mobility Stakeholder Board of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford. He regularly provides advisory services to intern ational development agencies such as: UN-Habitat, African Development Bank, DBSA, National Planning Commission, OECD urban division, UNEP, amongst others. Edgar serves on an international Advisory Committee for Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (Smithsonian) curating an international exhibition, Critical Mass: Cities. He also serves as a Faculty Member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
Edgar holds a PhD from London School of Economics, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape. More info is available at: www.africancentreforcities.net
Karrisha Pillay
Karrisha Pillay is a practising advocate at the Cape Bar with a particular interest in constitutional and administrative law. Before entering the legal profession, she was a researcher at the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, where her work focused on socio-economic rights. Advocate Pillay has served on the boards of various non-governmental and community-based organisations.
Mamphela Ramphele
Mamphela Ramphele, a South African national, is the Executive Chair of Circle Capital Ventures, a Cape Town based Black Economic Empowerment Company focusing on Growing Companies and Investing in People. She is a director of Major Companies.
She is Chair of Convenors of the Dinokeng Scenarios sponsored by Nedcor/Old Mutual with the report released in May 2009. She was recently appointed as Chairperson of the Technology Innovation Agency, an entity established in the Department of Science and Technology to promote innovation in the scientific field to enhance research and skills development.
She served as Co-Chair on the Global Commission for International Migration (GCIM) between 2004-2005.
She served as a Managing Director of the World Bank from May 2000 to July 2004. As a member of the senior leadership team, she was responsible for managing the institution’s human development activities in the areas of education; health, nutrition and population; and social protection. She was also responsible for the World Bank Institute, which provides training and learning for both staff and clients. In addition, she provided oversight and guidance to the Bank Group’s efforts in the areas of knowledge and information and communication technologies.
Prior to joining the Bank, Mamphela Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, a post she took up in 1996, becoming the first black woman to hold this position at a South African university. She joined the university as a research fellow in 1986, and was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor five years later. She is an author of many important titles about critical socio-economic issues in South Africa.
Mamphela Ramphele has received numerous prestigious national and international awards, including numerous honorary doctorates acknowledging her scholarship, her service to the community, and her leading role in raising development issues and spearheading projects for disadvantaged persons throughout South Africa.
Mamphela qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Natal in 1972. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, a BCom degree in Administration from the University of South Africa, and diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene, and Public Health, from the University of Witwatersrand.
Nomfundo Walaza
Nomfundo is a qualified Clinical Psychologist who completed her training at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She earned a Bachelor of Social Science (B Soc Sci) degree in Sociology and Psychology in 1986, completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Psychology a year later, and obtained a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from UCT in 1991.
Nomfundo worked at Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital from January 1990 to July 1994. Nomfundo joined the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in August 1994, as the co-ordinator of the Urban Violence project. She was appointed as the Director of the Trauma Centre in September 1996 where she worked until 2005.
Nomfundo has been lecturing and doing consultative work since leaving the Trauma Centre.
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