Reg Rumney(Chairperson of the panel)
Reg Rumney is an independent consultant, researcher and analyst, concentrating on investment issues, especially those relating to the role of business in society. He was executive director of the BusinessMap Foundation, an organisation focusing on economic transformation, specifically BEE and foreign direct investment, for five years. Rumney is one of the founding members of the Investing in the Future Awards and has been a judge on various awards panels, including the BusinessMap Empowerment Awards and the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year Awards. He is a representative on the Press Ombudsman Panel of Appeal. Rumney has wide-ranging experience in business journalism. He was economics editor at the SABC before joining BusinessMap. Prior to the SABC, he was business editor, managing editor and a member of the Mail & Guardian board.
Dr Iqbal Survé
Dr Iqbal Survé is a medical doctor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and global business leader. He is chairperson, chief executive and founder of the Sekunjalo Group, chairperson of Sekunjalo Investment Holdings and chief executive of Sekunjalo Investments Limited, which is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange. The Sekunjalo Group has investments in more than 70 companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, industrials, fishing, information technology and telecommunications, resources and financial services. Last year Sekunjalo was ranked by the Financial Mail/Empowerdex as the top empowered company of the top 200 companies on the JSE Securities Exchange. Survé is a recognised global leader, a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative and a fellow of the HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business and Environment Programme. He was appointed by former US president Bill Clinton to the board of governance of the Clinton Global Initiative. Survé has been a participating member of the World Economic Forum.
Amelia Jones
Amelia Jones is chief executive of the Community Chest in the Western Cape. She serves on the boards of many provincial and national organisations and is a sought-after speaker and trainer in South Africa and abroad. Her wealth of experience as a social worker encompasses various fields and managerial positions, including probation officer at the state welfare department, the Child Welfare Society, Nicro and the South African National Epilepsy League.
Dr Ivan May
Dr Ivan May serves on the board of the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa. He is a council member of the Institute of Directors and is vice-chairperson of Business and Arts South Africa. He also chairs the Territorial (Business) Advisory Council of the Salvation Army across five Southern African countries. May is an elected fellow of the IMM (SA) and of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK and is a registered chartered marketer in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He is the inaugural convener and chairperson (2006/07) of the Sunday Times Business Times Marketing Excellence Awards Council. He is a member of the appeal board of the Advertising Standards Authority, presided over by Mervyn King SC. May has served on the board of the Market Theatre Foundation for many years. He was a four-term president of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, vice-chancellor of the Order of St John in South Africa and a trustee of the Arts and Culture Trust of the President, the Green Trust and the South African Democracy Education Trust. He was jointly awarded the Jewish Report’s inaugural Humanitarian of the Year Award with then-president Nelson Mandela (1998/99).
Mokhethi Moshoeshoe
Mokhethi Moshoeshoe is a founder and a non-executive director of the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC), chairperson of Sustainability Research and Intelligence and co-founder and chairperson of the Giving and Sharing Foundation. He is a co-author of Guidelines for Corporate Strategic Planning Framework for Community Development for the International Council on Mining and Minerals. Moshoeshoe serves on a number of governing boards and advisory bodies and is a member of the USAid regional advisory committee for the Southern African Development Community (Botswana).
Glenda White
Glenda White is a director of Verge Management Services, a company providing operations and programme management services to the public sector. She is the former executive director of the Centre for Public Service Innovation. She has an honours degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, a master of arts from the University of Sussex and a master of sciences degree in development finance from the University of London. She previously worked for the Gauteng provincial government and has been a consultant on various institutional development and empowerment projects. White is the publisher of numerous reports and conference papers.
Zeona Motshabi
Zeona Motshabi rejoined Cell C in January this year as the chief corporate officer responsible for corporate communications, legal and regulatory affairs.
Previously Motshabi was chairperson for Lobedu Communications Group and managing director of Lobedu Leo Burnett. Motshabi and two other shareholders owned 51% of the international communications company. She was instrumental in turning the business around, both from a creative and financial position.
She previously held some of the most sought-after and dynamic communication and marketing positions in South Africa, such as head of corporate communications for Cell C at the time of its launch, executive head of corporate communications at Telkom, director for communications at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and joint managing director of a top South African advertising agency.
Zeona’s proudest contribution to the development of her current employer and that of the country has been the launch of Take a Girl Child to Work Day in 2002.
Shirley Moulder
Shirley Moulder is a trustee of the Southern Africa Trust. She serves as a non-executive director of a number of social development organisations in Southern Africa, having been involved in human rights and development work for more than 30 years. Based in South Africa, Moulder’s professional experience includes engagement with governments, the private sector and international aid agencies, as well as serving on a number of commissions for the Anglican Church in Southern Africa and the global Anglican Communion.
Neville Gabriel
Neville Gabriel is executive director of the Southern Africa Trust. He previously coordinated human rights and public policy advocacy work for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference before joining Oxfam as an adviser. He has been involved in building civil society campaigns such as Jubilee 2000 and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. He serves as a non-executive director of several civil society organisations, including the Southern African Regional Poverty Network and the African Network on Debt and Development.
Judi Nwokedi
Judi Nwokedi is director: government and corporate affairs at Motorola Southern Africa. A psychologist by training and well-respected broadcaster and leader, Nwokedi has spent the past few years heading SABC’s Public Broadcasting Service — comprising 15 radio and two TV stations. While at the public broadcaster she mandated the stations in her portfolio to empower and embrace the diversity of South Africa, subsequently commanding the largest radio listening audience in the country. She brings with her a true passion for social investment.
Dr Shereen Usdin
Dr Shereen Usdin graduated as a medical doctor from the University of the Witwatersrand and holds a master’s in public health from Harvard University. She helped establish the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and is a senior executive in the organisation. Her work has focused on health and development communication, HIV/Aids, gender-based violence and children’s rights. She was the 2004 Shoprite-Checkers/SABC Woman of the Year in the health category and one of the Gordon Institute of Business Science’s Social Entrepreneurs of the Year in 2006. She is author of two books — on the politics of HIV/Aids and global health. She sits on South Africa’s Presidential Working Group on Women.
Nombuyiselo Mapongwane
Nombuyiselo Mapongwane has been living with HIV since 1994, when little was known about HIV/Aids and the epidemic was a stigmatised disease. In 1997 she was diagnosed with full-blown Aids and she became ill. Her recovery inspired Mapongwane to become a motivational speaker, sharing her story and telling people what it means to live with HIV/Aids. She is employed by Anglo American as an HIV/Aids educator and counsellor.