University of Cape Town

Sheila Barsel is the political advisor to the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. She has 50 years of experience in:

Siza Mzimela is the chief executive of Transnet Freight Rail, the largest division of Transnet with 31 013 employees who are spread throughout the country. Mzimela is a seasoned business executive with 29 years’ experience gained in various senior roles across diverse industries. She has worked in the financial services, oil and gas and aviation sectors. With her experience gained primarily in aviation, Mzimela has established herself as an astute and commercial executive with business turnaround, multi-geographic and regulated industry experience.

Kunyalala is a South African based entrepreneur and businesswoman, a social activist and has served on a number of boards of companies and non-profit organizations. She has extensive experience in commercial law, having worked for more than 15 years in areas spanning from mergers and acquisitions, competition law, project and acquisition finance. She has done work in a number of African countries outside South Africa including Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Neil Eccles is a professor in the Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa. It should come as no surprise that in this role he teaches and does research. In terms of teaching, he uses moral and political philosophy to try and instil a bit of much needed critical thinking into economic and management science students. His module entitled Sustainability and Greed has been running since 2013, and is taken by between 6 000 and 11 000 undergraduate students a semester.

As the current Artscape CEO, my passion is simply to use Arts and Culture to empower and enable disadvantaged groups and to make a difference in another human being’s life. I am a driven person with a Masters of Philosophy in Disability Studies from UCT and an Honorary Doctorate in Education from CPUT. I completed many tertiary programmes, like the Women in Leadership Programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business. I obtained my Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education as well as a Higher Diploma in Education at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).