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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.
Tracey Chambers (B.Com CA (SA))
Tracey is the founder of InsideOut Business Solutions, an independent consultancy focusing on strategy, performance management and business process improvement. She is a qualified chartered accountant, with over 15 years business experience is many industries and in varying roles.
She spent 8 years at Woolworths in a number of roles which included supply chain, foods and lastly as Head of Financial Planning and Performance Management. In this capacity she was appointed to the Executive Committee and was responsible for aligning the strategy to deliver the financial goals as well as managing all aspects of the financial performance of the Woolworths business.
Tracey is passionate about making a difference and is actively involved in a number of NPOs which include Tsiba University and The ClothingBank.
Barbara Holtmann
Barbara Holtmann leads crime and violence prevention research at the Council for Scientifc and Industrial Research. In this capacity she guides the development of tools and interventions aimed at improving safety standards in South Africa and beyond. Her team has developed and implemented local crime prevention and safety toolkits, facilitating their implementation through provincial and local government, and developing local safety strategies, in partnership with the police and other stakeholders.
Barbara’s research provided the basis for and she is a founder member of the Action for a Safe South Africa initiative. She is Vice President of the Canadian based International Centre for Prevention of Crime.
She has a Masters degree in Public and Development Management from WITS and is currently completing her doctoral thesis “A Strategy for a Safe South Africa” at the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management.
Her focus is on prevention of crime and violence and reduction of criminality and opportunity for crime. She has published and regularly presents her work both locally and internationally, aiming to influence a shift from security and punitive justice to an optimistic, achievable goal of a safe society in which all can play a role.
Her position at the CSIR provides for innovative science-based approaches to achieving a safe South Africa.
Barbara is committed to a South Africa in which all can live in peace, harmony and prosperity.
Jody Kollapen
Mr Jody Kollapen is the Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), a constitutional body set up in terms of Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution to protect and promote human rights. He was appointed by President Mandela on the recommendation of Parliament and reappointed for second term by President Mbeki.
He has a B.Proc degree and LLB degree from Wits. He practised law in Pretoria, South Africa from 1981 to 1992 focussing on public interest law and during this period he represented a number of persons prosecuted in terms of apartheid laws. He joined Lawyers for Human Rights, a leading human rights NGO, in 1992 and served as its National Director from 1994 until 1995.
He was requested by President Mandela to be part of a panel entrusted with the task of interviewing and making recommendations on persons to be appointed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
His areas of interest include human rights within the administration of justice, equality and the advancement of socio-economic rights. He is presently chairperson of the Equality Review Committee.
He currently serves on the boards of various national and international human rights bodies, including the Legal Resources Centre and the Human Rights Foundations. He has spoken and participated in numerous workshops and conferences on human rights issues both nationally and internationally and written extensively on human rights issues and on constitutionalism.
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
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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