Resignations of NBF Board Members

The NBF wishes to thank Ms. Nolitha Fakude and Mr. Duncan Mbonyana for their support and invaluable contributions made towards the NBF throughout the past years. Ms. Fakude has left the NBF due to various work-related commitments and Mr. Mbonyana has gone into well-deserved retirement.

Appointment of New NBF Board Members

The NBF welcomes Ms. Nozipho January- Bardill as a new NBF Board member.

In May 2007, Nozipho January-Bardill was appointed Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Spokesperson for the MTN Group Pty Ltd. Not only is she a well educated and highly qualified scholar, she is also a multi-tasking mother of three. Nozipho passionately believes in human rights and the power of people to transform the world into a more compassionate place, free of dire poverty and injustice.

Prior to her move to MTN she worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director-General, Human Capital Management, and also serves as Head of its Foreign Service Institute, as well as South Africa's Ambassador to Switzerland. She was a founder member and Director of MBM Change Agents and Limani Consulting companies, offering Change and Diversity Management services to private and public institutions in South Africa. Before that, in 1996 she worked as a Chief Director responsible for advising the Parliamentary Speaker on the transformation of the new South African Parliament. Prior to that, she was Director of World University Services, SA, an NGO that assisted in the rehabilitation of political prisoners and returning exiles, and provided financial and institutional support to 72 South African NGOs working in the field. Nozipho spent 23 years in exile - 13 in Lesotho and 10 in the UK. Besides her anti-apartheid activities in both countries, she worked as a high school teacher, university lecturer and San Rock Art researcher in Lesotho. In the UK she worked as a Human Resource Development Officer and Consultant with a focus on race and gender equality, as well as HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Her social justice work in Britain and South Africa led to her being appointed to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in January 2000. In January 2004 she was re-appointed for another 4 years to CERD by the UN General Assembly.

Nozipho has written much on race and gender justice issues and has contributed to social policy in the transformation of South Africa's public service through her involvement in the Presidential Review Commission, the Office on the Status of Women in the Presidency, the Black Economic Empowerment Commission and the Council of the University of Cape Town (UCT). She was also a founder member of GETNET, an NGO advocating for gender equality in South Africa and is still Chair of the African Gender Institute at UCT. Before going to Switzerland, she served on the board of Southern Life and Momentum. She is currently a non-executive member on the boards of Holcim SA, African Footprints, a Black women led empowerment company, and MIAGI (Music Is A Great Investment), an NGO supporting the development of young musically talented South Africans.

Appointment of Six New NBF Sector Heads

Mr. Stanley Mkoko - Transport Sector
Mr. Jabu Maphalala - Mining Sector
Mr. Leo Dlamini and Mr. Dion Governder - Energy Sector
Mr. Hylton MacDonald - Infrastructure Sector
Mr. Paul Lemontagne - SMME Sector