University of Cape Town

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.

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.

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.

Pheladi Gwangwa is a director for core business at Chueu Inc, a law firm based in Pretoria, where she is responsible for organizational development. This entails aligning strategy, people and processes; performance management of the professional staff – attorneys; and ensuring operational efficiencies as well as overall optimization of the business.

Professor Maano Ramutsindela took up his position as the dean of the Faculty of Science on 1 March 2019.

Prior to his appointment, he was the deputy dean of operations and professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science.

View Emeritus Professor Martin Hall's CV.