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 Basetsana Kumalo, Vice Chair of loveLife’s Board of Trustees, rose to fame when she won the Miss South African pageant in 1994. It was at this time that she began working as a presenter for the TV programme Top Billing. In 1995, Kumalo became a 50% partner in Tswelopele Productions, the company that produces the show. Four years later, Tswelopele merged with Union Alliance Media and was listed on the JSE, making Kumalo one of the youngest black women directors to be part of the mainstream of the South African economy. In 2005, she co-launched Uzalile Investments, a women-owned coal mining company that is listed on the Australian and Johannesburg Stock Exchange. She became a shareholder in diamond mining company, Tawana, three years later, and was named one of the top personal brands in the Sunday Times Top Brands Survey in same year. Besides having a head for business (she is currently the President of the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa), Kumalo has played a key role in the Reconstruction and Development Programme; the Cancer Association of South Africa and Operation Hunger, as well as starting her own foundation with her husband, to aid the development of children.
 Mpho Makwana is Chairman of the Board for Eskom Holdings Limited. He is a management strategist with executive experience in both the public and private sectors. His areas of expertise include corporate strategy and strategic change management, corporate governance, human resources management, labour relations, scenario planning and brand management. His previous experience includes Chief Executive of Saatchi & Saatchi in South Africa and he has served on the South African boards of the Monitor Group, Ogilvy & Mather, Arabella Sheraton Hotels, Tourvest and the International Marketing Council. Makwana is a member of the Institute of Directors, a fellow of the Institute of People Management, an ambassador of the FutureWorld Network and a member of the Black Management Forum. Mpho was educated at Pretoria University, (BA Admin, Hons) and the University of Zululand. He attended an executive development programme at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, has a post-graduate diploma in retailing management from Stirling University in Scotland and is currently completing an MBA through Stirling University.
 Given Mkhari, a former talk show radio host, is the CEO of investment group MSG Afrika Investment Holdings, which he co-founded in 2003. MSG’s primary interests are in telecoms, media, technology and communications. The firm’s current investments include, but are not limited to, The Jupiter Drawing Room (advertising), Telkom Media (media), The Dialogue Group (BPO), The Communications Firm, The Quarto Press (printing), Sonovision (facilities) and Curious Pictures (TV production). Apart from his responsibilities at MSG, the married father of four enjoys travel, golf, soccer and reading biographies.
 Kholeka Mzondeki is a chartered accountant, qualified in the United Kingdom, with substantial experience in financial management and directorship. She has served in various local and international companies and industries as a Financial Director/CFO. One of her key accomplishments has been setting up a brown-field company, as well as setting up governance and systems for a company that earned revenue in the billions. In 2008, Mzondeki was selected as a finalist in theBWA/Nedbank Business Women of the Year – the only FD among JSE-listed CEOs. She was chosen by the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants in the United Kingdom (ACCA) as an Ambassador (an influential and prominent member to promote ACCA). Kholeka serves as an independent non-executive director in various companies, including that of the United Nations Food Programme in Rome. She loves hiking, travelling and mentoring young people. She is also passionate about women empowerment, creating an ‘abundance mentality’ and promoting a culture of truth and fairness. Her philosophy to doing business is social entrepreneurship.
 Prof. Linda Richter is the Executive Director of Child, Youth, Family and Social Development at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She is an Honorary Professor in Psychology and an elected Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Richter is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar in the School of Public Health at Harvard. She has conducted both basic and policy research in the fields of child and youth development as applied to health, education, welfare and social development. She is also the author of several books and monographs, including Mandela’s Children: Growing up in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Routledge, 2001) and Building Resilience A Rights-Based Approach to Children and HIV/AIDS in Africa (Save the Children Sweden, 2006). She is also the principal investigator of several large-scale, long-term collaborative projects, including Birth to Twenty, a Wellcome Trust funded birth cohort study of 3 273 children up to age (currently) 20 years; and the Vulindla site of Project Accept, a NIMH-funded randomised community trial to change community norms and thereby reduce recent HIV infection.
 Mandla Sibeko, a law graduate from the University of Witwatersrand, is the founder and director of Seed Investments, an investment company that invests largely in small companies. He is also a shareholder and chairman of NetFlorist SA, a large flower and gift company; director of Paarl Media; and the owner of a Pick n Pay franchise in Kliptown, Soweto. Sibeko started out in TV production, establishing Born Free Media. He later sold his stake to focus on other business ventures such as Icon SA, an initiative between Tone Digital and Icon UK. Sibeko enjoys gym, rsunning, bikram yoga, travel and reading. He is the youngest person to have served on loveLife’s Board of Trustees, having first been appointed at the age of 24.
Shaka Sisulu is founding CEO of iKGB media information services, a start-up Pan-African media research provider. Previously, he was CEO of Monitoring SA and COO of ITEC Telecoms. He has also worked for Vodacom, Cell C and IEC. Sisulu has incubated companies, and consulted various companies on strategy, sales, marketing and technology. He is a founding member of Cheesekids for Humanity, a youth-based volunteer organisation comprised of over 3 500 members. He also serves on the board of the Foundation for a Safe South Africa, having been a member of the steering committee of Action for a Safe South Africa. He is Deputy Chair of his local chapter of the ANC. He has read for a Post-Graduate diploma in Business Administration with the Gordon's Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria).
 Theodora Steele is the National Organising Secretary of COSATU. Born in Newcastle, KZN, she started out as a machinist at a shirt factory in Durban. In 1987, Steele participated in the merger talks that led to the formation of South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU). She was elected as the second Vice President of SACTWU three years later and served in the Clothing Bargaining Council. In 1995, she transferred to Johannesburg to serve as Branch Secretary, and negotiated on the Clothing Bargaining Council. Steele seconded to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to coordinate their Recruitment Campaign and was later employed as the National Campaigns Coordinator. Besides her commitment to workers’ rights, Steele has also played an active role in HIV/Aids advocacy. She coordinated COSATU’s HIV and Aids campaigns and programmes, and represented COSATU in the Solidarity Centre’s HIV and Aids Labour Task Team in 1999. The following year, she represented labour in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and served in the National Council of the TAC. Steele also gave her support to the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) with the implementation of the National Strategic Plan, and has served as a board member of AIDS Law Project (ALP) since 2006. Steele has three daughters, seven grandchildren and loves watching soccer.
 Raenette Taljaard was the youngest women to be elected to the South African Parliament as an MP at the age of 25 in 1999. She served as a Member of Parliament, notable on the Portfolio Committees on Finance and Public Accounts during her six years in the National Assembly. She served as Shadow Minister of Finance for the opposition from 2002-2004. Ms Taljaard is currently an independent analyst and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer (Public Policy) in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. She holds a BA (Law), Hons. (Political Studies) cum laude; MA (Political Studies: International Relations) cum laude from the University of Johannesburg and an MSc (Public Administration and Public Policy) cum laude from the London School of Economics. Ms. Taljaard is a Young Global Leader of the WEF, a Yale World Fellow, a Stiαs Fellow. She writes a monthly column for The Times and lectures extensively both locally and abroad and writes for local and foreign publications.
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