University of Cape Town

Kholiwe Makhohliso made a name for herself as a distinct leader in the ICT sector having led South African operations of global companies, including a Fortune 500 company. From 2018, she has been at the helm of German-headquartered global software company, Software AG, as its vice president and country managing director for South Africa.

Shuaib Manjra is a passionate South African, human rights activist, and seeker of a better world for all. He consults in sports and occupational medicine physician to a range of non-governmental organisations, state and private-sector institutions. His association with UCT began in 1990 when he worked at the Industrial Health Research Group, based in the Department of Sociology. This unit provided occupational health services to the progressive trade union movement. He currently serves as an honorary senior lecturer at UCT’s School of Public Health.

Kit Vaughan is an emeritus professor at UCT, having previously held the Hyman Goldberg Chair in Biomedical Engineering (1996-2010). During this period, he also served: as head of department (biomedical engineering and human biology) in the Faculty of Health Sciences; as deputy dean for research and postgraduate affairs; and as a member of Council and the Senate Executive Committee. Prior to UCT, Vaughan was professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia.

Busiswa Mtsi is a security officer working for Campus Protection Services at the UCT Graduate School of Business at Cape Town’s Waterfront. Ms Mtsi has been working at UCT since November 2012 and has been studying human resources since 2015, gaining a diploma from Damelin College in 2017, a BTech at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in 2020. She is currently working on a BCom honours degree in human resource management at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Samuel Chetty has been a member of the UCT’s Professional, Administrative Support and Service Staff since 2013. He holds the post of Systems Administrator in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science. Samuel’s previous employment history includes Stellenbosch University, Sanlam Investments Management and University of Cape Town in the ICT Management environment.

After doing his undergraduate degree at the University of (KwaZulu) Natal, Rudzani Muloiwa trained as a paediatrician at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, obtaining a Fellowship in Paediatrics with the Colleges of Medicines of South Africa (CMSA) in 2004. After this he completed an MSc in public health for developing countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He has an interest in infectious diseases with a special emphasis on vaccine preventable diseases.

Professor Ntusi is the head of medicine and the clinical lead for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and cardiovascular computed tomography (CCT) at Groote Schuur Hospital and is appointed as a cardiologist, professor and chair of medicine in the Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Ezra Davids is the chairman of Corporate/M&A at Bowmans specialising in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities law.

Dianna Yach is currently chairperson of the Mauerberger Foundation Fund (MFF), privately established in 1936, which supports community-based and academic institutions in South Africa (Western Province), Israel and Ramallah. The MFF seeks to advance human rights and social justice by supporting ethical leaders in health, welfare, education, arts and culture, and sustainable environment matters.

Zama Khanyile is a fund manager at the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) and she is in charge of the uMnotho Fund that deals with acquisitions, new ventures and expansions.