Patrons and Trustees

Zenariah Barends is responsible for strategic communications at Cape Town Activa which provides support programmes to entrepreneurs to help them make a success of their businesses.  Prior to joining Cape Town Activa, she was the executive director of Greymatter & Finch, having spent a decade at Sekunjalo Investments Ltd, a black controlled company listed on the JSE where she was responsible for corporate communications and transformation. Just before she joined Sekunjalo, she headed up the Western Cape Investigative Unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Zenariah has a BA Honours in Sociology as well as a Diploma in Library and Information Science from UWC.

Between 1991 and 1996, Zenariah was based at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) where she initially lectured in the Sociology department and was later a researcher at the Education Policy Unit (EPU), conducting research on higher education policy for a post-apartheid South Africa.

Zenariah is actively involved with projects in the arts and culture area as a performing artist and in an organisational capacity. She is a founding member of the Cape Cultural Collective, a volunteer arts and cultural initiative in the Western Cape. In addition, she serves as the Chairperson of the board of trustees of Inyathelo: The South African Institute for Advancement.

Lungisile Ntsebeza is Professor and Acting Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also the holder of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa. He has conducted extensive published research on the land question in South Africa around themes such as land rights, democratisation, rural local government, traditional authorities and land and agrarian movements.

His book, Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of Land in South Africa was published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden in 2005 and the HSRC Press in 2006. Professor Ntsebeza has also co-edited two books: The Land Question in South Africa: the Challenge of Transformation and Redistribution, HSRC Press, 2007, with Ruth Hall; and, with Thembela Kepe, Rural Resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo Revolts after fifty years, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2011 and UCT Press, 2012. His current research interests, apart from land and agrarian questions, include an investigation of African Studies at UCT and a related project on the political and intellectual history of the late Archie Mafeje.

Guy Lundy is the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, a business think-tank representing 45 major corporations that brings together key stakeholders in the Cape Town city region to develop and implement a long-term vision for sustainable, inclusive economic growth. He is also a Director of several organisations, including Wesgro, where he is Deputy Chairperson, and Cape Town Tourism.

Guy previously ran his own corporate strategy consultancy, helping large companies develop foresight and an understanding of future trends. He has also worked for international firms such as Ernst & Young, Oracle, the London Stock Exchange and Dimension Data, during several years of living on four continents.

Guy was born and raised in Cape Town. He completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Economics at UCT and his Masters in Futures Studies at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of two books about South Africa and its future, namely “South Africa: Reasons to Believe” and “South Africa 2014: The Story of our Future”.

In 2009 Guy was listed by Business Day as one of the ‘Top 100 Thinkers in South Africa’.

One of the founders of Inyathelo, Shelagh was previously Director of Fundraising at the University of Cape Town (1998-2002). Before that she worked in the nonprofit sector, particularly with the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) where she headed its Africa programme. She is also the author of five editions of the “Who’s Who in South African Politics”.

Nomvula Dlamini is the Executive Director of the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA), a civil society organisation that operates as a centre for organisational innovation and development practice. She has been working as an organisation development practitioner with the CDRA since 1995, providing organisational development support to civil society organisations concerned with social change and development, poverty, inequality and grant-making practice. In this time she has seen the work of the CDRA grow beyond the boundaries of South Africa and extend into other parts of Africa, Europe, Sweden and Finland.

Nomvula has experience in facilitating organisational transformation/change and learning processes, conducting developmental evaluations and designing/implementing action research processes in search of innovative organisational practices. Nomvula’s professional background is in education and she holds a masters degree in Adult Learning and Global Change. She has published articles on the CDRA website (www.cdra.org.za) and in other publications. She has also contributed as writer to the production of the Barefoot Guide on Learning Practices in Organisations and Social Change written by the Second Barefoot Collective (www.barefootguide.org).

Noel Daniels holds a M.A. in Education Administration and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in all levels of education and training provision in South Africa and across all sectors – business, non-profit and government. Currently he is the co-owner and Managing Director of The Fundamentals Training Centre (FTC), a company that focuses on provision of leadership and management training to corporates, government and communities, both in South Africa and internationally. He is also the co-owner of e-Agency, a materials development and publishing consultancy and he is the chairperson of African Development Options, an NGO which focuses on poverty alleviation and job creation. Noel’s specialisations include general and project management, leadership, entrepreneurship and community development.

Noel serves on the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry as the elected chairperson of its Athlone and Cape Flats branch. He has a passion for people and is a promoter of Arts and Culture as one of the means to change lives for the better. As the father of an eleven year old girl, Noel is particularly concerned about how we actively play a role and build potent legacies today, to ensure a sustainable and brighter future for generations to come.

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