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