Trustees

Dr Namane Magau holds a Doctorate in Education from Harvard.  Currently she is a Board Chairman of NTP and Bertha Gxowa Foundation. She also serves on the Nozala Trust Board of Trustees, UCT Graduate School of Business Advisory Board. Past boards on which she served include Murray & Roberts, Merrill Lynch South Africa and Santam.  She owns a Consulting Company B&D Solutions and in the consulting work and her role on Boards she draws from her past experiences as an executive director in companies and educator.

Her past management and executive roles include the senior management position at the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) as a Director in the Human Resource Policy division. From the DBSA she joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as the Executive Vice President for Human Capital. After five years at the CSIR she became part of the executive team at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

The experiences she had in designing policy for National Programs like the HR strategy for the RDP and guiding development of management systems and programs for the science and innovation systems at the CSIR extended her understanding of promoting performance of organizations through engaging people at all levels and using efficient information management systems.

As an educator, she is also passionate about development of others and has therefore been active in women development programs and was President of Business Women’s Association (BWA), as well as President of International Women’s Forum South Africa (IWFSA). She also mentors young leaders, a role that she finds very enriching and inspiring.

Dr Magau embodies a rare character of a feminist, entrepreneur and educationalist who is passionate about Africa’s development and assumption of her rightful place in the global economy.

As Executive Vice President, Global Energy, Maurice Radebe is responsible for Sasol’s Energy Business globally. He is accountable for the successful marketing of all the Energy Business’ products as well as managing the gas-to-liquids (GTL) joint ventures in Qatar (ORYX GTL) and Nigeria (EGTL), the gas-to-power (GTP) venture in Mozambique.
Mr Radebe joined Sasol Oil (now part of the Energy Business) in January 2004 when Sasol Oil purchased Exel Petroleum, where he was Managing Director. He was appointed as Managing Director, Fuels Marketing at Sasol Oil, responsible for all liquid fuels products through retail and wholesale channels. He served as Managing Director of Sasol Oil from December 2006 to October 2010.
He was appointed to Sasol’s Group Executive Committee on 1 November 2010 and was responsible for global Corporate Affairs, Government Relations and Enterprise Development. In July 2015 the Energy business was added to his portfolio. In January 2017, his responsibility for Corporate Affairs was changed to that of SHE.
Maurice is an experienced business executive with a range of exposure to oil, natural gas, fuels and electricity. In addition, he has engaged at senior level with governments and other stakeholders within a highly regulated environment.
He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc (Applied Mathematics and Physics)) from the University of the North (now known as University of Limpopo), Polokwane, South Africa in 1983 and a Higher Diploma for Educators of Adults from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa in 1988. In 1991, he attended the Management Advancement Programme at Wits Business School and in 1997 obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from same business school. He also attended the General Management Programme at Harvard Business School, Boston, United States in 2007.

Thandi is married with 3 adult children and a granddaughter. She is an avid golfer, sport fanatic, reads voraciously, travels extensively and is passionate about transforming mindsets.
She is an Inanda Seminary Alumna having matriculated in the Class of 1974. Thandi obtained her undergrad degree from Fort Hare University, went on to qualify and be admitted as an attorney. During her student years, she was a political activist, taken into detention and expelled from Fort Hare University when she was doing her final year LLB. She became a Human Rights Lawyer and Socio-Economic Development Activist whose career of over 35 years spans the roles of attorney, mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, dispute resolution practitioner, public speaker, executive management and director of companies.
She holds a B Juris Degree from Fort Hare University, B Proc and LLB Degrees from UNISA, LLM Degree from Wits and an Executive Management Program from Kellogg’s Business School, Chicago, USA. She practiced as an attorney at the Legal Resources Centre, headed the Independent Mediation Service of South Africa where she concentrated on management, fundraising, arbitration and mediation. When the CCMA was established, she became its first Black female National Director. After she left the CCMA, her first board position was at the South African Reserve Bank as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She then straddled practice as a commercial lawyer, independent Non-executive director on listed and private companies and trustee of various Foundations and NGO’s.
She is presently an admitted advocate, shareholder and executive director of Peotona Group Holdings, Trustee of various Trusts notably Chair of the Legal Resources Trust and Zenex Foundation, Trustee of Friends of LRC (USA)South African Future Trust (SAFT), Council Member of Zenex Charitable Foundation (Jersey Island) and Director of a number of boards and Chair of BP Southern Africa and Chair designate of Impala Platinum Limited. 

She was previously appointed as Chief Executive Officer for the Commission on Gender Equality, a position she held for eight years between 2002 and 2010 before joining VIP Consulting Engineers as Shareholder Partner and Executive Director until her deployment to Parliament. Before joining the Commission on Gender Equality in 2002, she came back to Tshwane to work for the European Union for five years as Gender and Children Consultant funding human rights organization to further promote the culture of human rights in South Africa.

Dr Chana Pilane-Majake was instrumental in getting the bilateral agreement based European Union Foundation for Human Rights office established in South Africa. 

She has had extensive lecturing experience at University of the North and University of Natal respectively, teaching Human Rights and Social Justice in the late 80s and early 90s. She is a Founding member of several schools for children with disabilities in Kwazulu Natal where she lived for ten years after her stint in Limpopo.

Dr Chana Pilane-Majake is a founding and board member of late stalwart Bertha Gxowa Foundation. As a Deputy Minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Executive she has had extensive interaction and participation in South African, SADC, African and Global development issues and forums. She has also published a number of articles in various journals and was instrumental to the process of putting together the SA Gender Resource and Training Manual that has been widely utilized by non-governmental and government departments in gender transforming South Africa. She was part of team of experts that developed at AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa a reporting framework for Heads of States on Gender Equality in Africa.

Chana has been a member of the ANC from her student days working with structures that supported the struggle for liberation of the people of South African and liaising with internal and exiled leadership of the ANC. She holds a Doctorate Degree from University of South Africa, a Masters Degree from the University of Natal now part of University of Zululand, a Bachelors degree & Honors degree from University of the North now University of Limpopo and a Diploma in Development Issues from Stanford University, California, USA.

Honourable Ntombi Mekgwe holds various tertiary qualifications which include:

• Certificate in Municipal Development
• Diploma in Local Government
• Diploma in Human Resource Management
• Diploma in Adult Basic Education
• Diploma in Public Management

She has also graduate certificates in the form of:

• A Degree in Leadership and Governance from WITS University
• Project Management Certificate from UCT
• B. Admin Degree

She completed her Hounours and is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.

Her sterling performance has earned her the Best Woman Councillor in Local Government in Gauteng Award in 2007. SHe has been involved in several major projects and campaigns, such as the renaming of the OR Tambo International Airport as well an extensive list of Committees and Organisations in which she serves. This includes being:

• Trustee of the Mpho Modi Trust
• Member of the Ntombi Mekgwe Foundation board
• President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Gauteng Branch
• Chairperson of the Gauteng Speakers Forum
• Member of the COmmonwealth Women Parliamentarians
• Executive Member of the GPL Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
• Former Regional Secretary of the ANC Women’s League in Ekurhuleni
• Member of the ANC Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee
• Member of the ANC Gauteng Provincial Working Committee
• Head of ANC Gauteng Disciplinary Committee
• Bertha Gxowa Foundation Trust 

Salukazi graduated from the University of Lesotho in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics and Statistics. In 1980 she completed her Masters in Administration in Development Economics at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. Since 1977 Salukazi has, amongst other positions, worked as part time lecturer in Business Economics at the University of Lesotho, as Programme Manager for the Development Bank of Southern Africa, as a Principal Cooperation Officer at African Development Bank (Abidjan), as a Senior Manager in the Structured Finance Unit of FirstCorp Merchant Bank and as an Assistant General Manager of BOE Investment Bank.