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Marcel Golding

Marcel Golding was born in Johannesburg on 29 June 1960. He holds a BSocSc BA (Hons) at the University of Cape Town. Marcel started his career as lecturer and tutor at the University of Cape Town, 1980. In 1983 he became the Research Writer for the South African Labour Bulletin. From 1985 to 1993 he worked as the senior official and the Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers.

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Adrian Sayers

Dr Adrian Sayers

Dr Adrian Sayers is a social and economic development, planning and labour market researcher and practitioner. Since its establishment in July 2012, he has been a founding director and shareholder of Tri DEV Worx AFP Pty Ltd, a specialist research consultancy that pursues sustainable socio-economic development through the application of innovative solutions. Adrian was awarded a doctorate in 2006 by the University of Cape Town for a dissertation titled: Development, Transformation and Freedom: Critical Perspectives on Development, Transformation and Freedom with reference to a Social and Economic History of the State, Markets and Civil Practices in the Western Cape of South Africa, c. 1910-1948. As a result of his subsequent practical research explorations, he was invited to contribute to prominent international scholarly events such as the International Conference on Emerging Directions in Decentralized Participatory Planning: Theory, Practice and Roles of the Planner, 2011, and the Development and Inequality in the Global South Research Institute, 2009.

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John Volmink

Prof John Volmink

John Volmink was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. He started his academic career at the University of the Western Cape where he graduated with a BSc degree in mathematics, physics and applied mathematics, and a BSc (Hons) in Physics. He later completed a Masters and PhD in Mathematics Education at Cornell University, Ithaca NY, United States of America.

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Ncebakazi Mnukwana

Ncebakazi Mnukwana

Ncebakazi Mnukwana is a music educator who spends most of her days training music teachers, teaching ethnomusicology and World Music at the Konservatorium at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. When awarded an academic scholarship to study towards a Masters in multicultural education at the Oslo University College, Bakazi became the musical director of Inkululeko (2002 – 2005), a choral ensemble formed by the South African political exiles in Oslo, Norway in the late 1980s. Back in Cape Town, she volunteered as the vocal instructor and conductor for The Pilgramage Ensemble (2009 – 2012) at the Mowbray Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

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Bernard Fanaroff

Dr Bernard Fanaroff

Bernard Fanaroff has a BSc Hons in Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in Radio Astronomy from Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 2018 and an International Member of the American Philosophical Society, America’s oldest learned society, in 2022. He has been awarded the national Order of Mapungubwe, the Karl Jansky Lectureship, the President’s Award of the Institute of Electrical Engineering, an award for Science Diplomacy from the Minister for Science and Technology, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Research Foundation, the Science for Society Gold Medal of the Academy of Science of South Africa and seven honorary degrees.

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Edward Boateng

Edward Boateng

Edward Boateng is the Executive Chairman and Group CEO of Global Media Alliance, a Pan African integrated media and entertainment company. Edward is the past (August 2007 to December 2009) Chairman of the Millennium Development Authority Ghana (MiDA He also served on the Board of National Communications Authority of Ghana (NCA) from 2001 to 2004 and was reelected from 2006 – 2009. Amongst others, he has also served on the Board of Africa Economic Forum (1999-2003) and the Foundation for Africa Media Excellence and in an advisory capacity on the Millennium Cities, Kumasi Development Initiative.

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Gary Jansen

Gary Jansen

Gary Jansen has practiced law since 1984. He was articled to Y. Ebrahim and Co. where he established himself as a Human Rights Lawyer, working to assist communities in a range of political issues.

Gary’s work has continued to be focussed on business development and using his skills to unlock opportunities for broad-based black economic empowerment and ensuring that successful businessmen from local communities continue to contribute to community development.

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Judy Favish

Judy Favish has an MA in continuing education from the University of Warwick, a Postgraduate Diploma in Postgraduate Diploma in Policy, Leadership and Management Studies in Higher Education and a B A Honours in Applied LinguisticsIn 2016 she retired as director of UCT’s Institutional Planning Department (IPD) after a career that pursued social justice through working in different fields of education and in different types of institutions, including trade unions, NGOs, the Gauteng Department of Education, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the University of Cape Town (UCT).  She has a long history of national involvement in policy development.

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Mansoor Jaffer

Mansoor Jaffer started his career as a court reporter at the Cape Argus in 1980. The deep injustices of apartheid drew him into political activism and journalism. In 1983, he took up employment with Grassroots, an anti-apartheid newspaper. During his five-years at the paper, he moved to Oudtshoorn for six months where he helped to establish an Afrikaans paper based on the Grassroots model.

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Dr Lilian Dudley

Dr Lilian Dudley is a Public Health Medicine Specialist, emeritus associate professor and previous Head of Division of Health Systems and Public Health in the Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University (SU). At SU she established several new postgraduate programmes in public health, health systems research and health leadership and management, and led the renewal of the teaching of public health in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Her research interests include health systems strengthening and quality of care, particularly for TB, HIV and chronic diseases; health information systems; and capacity development of health professionals and managers in LMIC’s.

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