| Marais appointed to SABCOHA Northern Cape Branch Board of Governors |
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| May 05, 2009 | |
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Anel Marais of Kumba Iron Ore was approinted to the SABCOHA Northern Cape Branch Board of Governors on 4 May . The board was officially appointed at the SABCOHA inaugural breakfast session on 26 March . The Board comprises representation from every municipal district. The following nine representatives will serve a two-year term:
James Manis was elected as chairman of the Board and Faried Sallie was elected as vice-chairman of the Board. Designated roles and responsibilities in terms of representing the private sector on multi-sectoral AIDS councils at provincial and district level shall be communicated in due course. In the meantime, get to know your governors - brief profiles of each follow.
Elder draws her inspiration and motivation from the belief that everything in life is possible. After qualifying as a professional nurse in 1991 at the University of the Free State’s School of Nursing (then known as Mancofs), Elder went on to obtain her Baccalaureus in Advanced Nursing. Elder is also an MBA Graduate of the University of Free State, School of Management. Elder was born and raised in Bloemfontein but has spent most of her 16 year career in the Northern Cape. She started off as a chief professional nurse at the emergency unit of Kimberley Hospital and went on to become the Provincial Programme Manager for Communicable Disease. She established and led the multi-sectoral provincial and district AIDS councils, inter-departmental task team and social cluster on HIV and AIDS. Elder was instrumental in forming partnerships with home-based care NGOs and mobilising the youth around HIV and AIDS. Elder was appointed by De Beers in March 2003 as the wellness superintendent. After less than 5 years she was promoted to Public and Corporate Affairs Manager and forms part of the Kimberley Mine’s Executive Committee.
Faried, an Electrical Engineer by profession, joined De Beers in 1994. Between 1994 and 2003, Faried worked in De Beers Research and Development, starting out as a technical specialist and then progressing to Project Manager, designing diamond recovery machines, and then becoming a Project Portfolio Manager. Faried became PA to the Chairman of De Beers between 2003 and 2005. In 2003 he completed an MBA with distinction. From 2004 until 2006 he acted as Secretary to the De Beers Executive Committee. Faried was seconded to De Beers Corporate Strategy in London in 2005 and during this time managed components of organisation wide projects rolling out Purpose, Vision and Values to the group, and managing projects on Organisational Effectiveness, and Workplace Accountability. Faried also spent six months in the DTC in the Rough Diamond Division, Pricing and Supply Chain and Sales returning to South Africa in 2007. Faried is a Director of De Beers Botswana and De Beers Group Services in South Africa. Faried was appointed as MD of DTC South Africa at the end of 2007.
Born in Dundee, Natal, Khanyiso is from the Eastern Cape, where he spent his early childhood. He grew up in Botswana and lived in Russia for 23 years before finally returning to South Africa in 2006. Khanyiso qualified as a general medical practitioner in 1986 and completed his post graduate research on the kinetics of drugs that affect the immune system in 1990 at the Patrice Lumumba University, in Moscow. Having an interest in international relations and public policy, Khanyiso facilitated public private partnerships on behalf of the Russian Federation for several years. Upon his return to South Africa he worked for a health information systems company in Johannesburg called Electronic Patient Records as an Executive Officer. For the past 2 years he has resided in Kimberley and travelled extensively in the Northern Cape as Executive Manager for Vitality Consulting (now called Greenfield Management Solutions). In this role he focused on HIV and AIDS programme management which included managing and improving health facilities, designing and implementing High Transmission Area (HTA) interventions, and improving and expanding service delivery through capacity development and accreditation of HIV treatment sites. Khanyiso recently established his own management consulting company that aims to work with public and private healthcare and related sectors to improve service delivery through an engaging process of prior learning.
Born in Port Elizabeth, James moved to Welkom in his Matric year. James started his career as a teacher until a trainee health and safety position became available at one of the local mines. In 1985, he graduated with a Diploma in Teaching at the University of the Western Cape and worked as a teacher for a 1˝ at Bronville High School in Welkom. James joined Anglo Gold Ashanti in 1987 as a trainee ventilation observer with the responsibility of ensuring legal compliance with health and safety regulations and standards. Realising that this was his calling in life he spent 19 years progressing within Anglo Gold Ashanti until he reached the position of Safety Health and Environmental Manager. James completed a Management Development Programme at the University of Cape Town in 2007. James believes in preserving life and zero harm. He is passionate about people, health and wellbeing. He promotes coaching and persuasion as a means to behaviour change rather than adopting a systems and punitive approach. James joined Hotazel Manganese Mines, part of the BHP Billiton Group, 6 months ago and is excited about his expanded portfolio which includes community. This is aligned to his personal vision of instilling hope. He is also willing and able to share years of learning and expertise.
Anel started her career as an educator at Sesheng Primary School just outside Kathu and joined Kumba in 1996 as an ABET facilitator. She developed small projects on cognitive development for adult learners in the ABET 1 phase, which were presented to the Department of Education as part of its teacher training courses. Anel was Kumba’s LED manager from 1998 to 2005. She initiated various enterprise development projects, including the leather tanning project, Butterfield Bread. She was promoted to the Executive Committee in her current role as Sustainable Development Manager. She completed her Masters in Community Development at Stellenbosch University and a course in Corporate Social Responsibility at Harvard Business School in 2008. Anel is passionate about all aspects of social development.
Veronica was born and bred in Vereeniging. She qualified as a staff nurse in 1985 at the Ann Latsky College of Nursing affiliated to RAU (now the University of Johannesburg) and the Helen Joseph Hospital (formerly JG Strydom). She worked for Iscor in Vanderbijlpark for 8 years. She spent the first 4 years as part of the occupational health team responsible for conducting entry medical examinations. Veronica realised that she had a passion for teaching and transferred to the training department were she provided first aid training, and later on HIV and AIDS basic education, to employees. After spending 7 years in Porterville, a small town in the Western Cape, engaged in community development work for the local church and school, Veronica moved to the Northern Cape. She joined Karsten Boerdery almost 2 years ago and coordinates their social development programme across 6 farms. This programme comprises several projects including life skills training, child day-care services, annual sports and recreational events, and primary health care and HIV and AIDS. Veronica believes in people empowerment – helping people to help themselves.
Louise was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Durban at the age of 11 to complete her schooling. Thereafter she studied Social Sciences and Business Management. Louise has been in the Human Resources profession for the past 14 years having worked for Corporates in Durban and Johannesburg. Her key performance areas are change management, EAP and CSI programmes, and training and development. Her family relocated to Danielskuil 3˝ years ago. Louise provides consulting services to Idwala Lime, and other local companies and organisations. She chairs the Kgatelopele Social Development Forum – a non-profit organisation established for the said local municipality – and is involved in several community projects supported through local CSI and Social Labour Plan commitments and various government departments. Significant achievements include facilitating the establishment of the Tsholofelo Children’s Home in Danielskuil housing 22 orphans and/or vulnerable children, implementing a vegetable project and feeding scheme that reaches more than 1200 beneficiaries per week, and opening the Phedisanang Day Hospice through which palliative and home based care services are provided to terminally ill and HIV and AIDS patients. Louise is currently facilitating the establishment of a wellness and HIV treatment clinic in Danielskuil. Her motto is to live life to the fullest and believes that “positive thoughts are a positive being”. She is a proud mommy of a beautiful 20-month old little girl.
Johan has spent most of his working life in mining. He has worked in Anglo American mines in the Free State, Gauteng, Western Cape and Northern Cape. He started his careers as an artisan and progressed to a foreman. Prior to joining Black Mountain, he spent 14 years at the Namakwa Sands mine in Vredenberg. After completing a degree in Human Resources: Training and Development at the Vaal University of Technology in 2004, he moved across to the training department. Johan is a qualified assessor and moderator for mechanical engineering. He volunteered as a peer educator in 2000 and has been involved in HIV and AIDS and community outreach ever since. He was transferred to Black Mountain in Aggeneys in January 2008 and took up the position of Training Coordinator. In this role, Johan is also responsible for coordinating the mines HIV and AIDS programme. Johan is passionate about helping others and believes that the secret of success lies in working together.
Theresa obtained a BCom Honours degree at the University of Pretoria in 1995. She has completed the course work towards a Masters degree and plans to submit the research component in 2010. As one of the top students and during the course of her Honours degree, Theresa was selected to serve as a teacher's assistant in the HR department at the university. In this position, she helped undergraduate students with academic learning, postgraduate students in searching for academic resources and professors in preparing for lectures. She also assisted the university in administering and evaluating psychometric tests for physiotherapy students. Following her academic achievements, Theresa spent five years at Edgars, starting out as an HR clerk and ending up as the HR manager: Kempton Park store. Born in Durban and raised in Gauteng, Theresa moved to Douglas in the Northern Cape in 2001. She established a successful local garden services company and recently joined GWK. In her current role she is specifically responsible for co-ordinating staff training and development, and the company's bursary programme. Theresa draws inspiration from coaching and mentoring others to grow and achieve their personal goals. She believes in the importance of role modelling as a powerful source of motivation for the youth. The proposed Northern Cape private sector strategy on HIV and AIDS was also presented at the inaugural breakfast. The strategy represents the outcome of many months of stakeholder consultation. Stakeholders are now invited to submit comments and inputs in relation to the proposed strategy on/before 14 April 2009 (link to document here). The final proposed strategy shall be circulated to the Board at the end of April for adoption shortly thereafter. During April 2009, individual company operations will be approached to complete a data monitoring template. The data and information provided will be consolidated into a baseline report for the Northern Cape Private Sector. Individual company data will be treated confidentially. Participating companies will be acknowledged and branded in the report. Companies are urged to participate even if minimal data is available as this is a finding in and of itself. The report will be published on the SABCOHA website and disseminated to members of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), Provincial and District AIDS Councils and Private Sector Companies, including the media. SABCOHA acknowledges the critical support received from two sponsors: BHP Billiton Manganese (sponsor of the overall project including the Inaugural Breakfast held in Kimberley on 26 March 2009) and Kumba Iron Ore (sponsor of the conference held in Upington in November 2008). For more detailed information about the Northern Cape initiative contact Liesel Köstlich (details are on the website). Related articles: |
MS ELDER MOSIA – Public and Corporate Affairs Manager: De Beers Kimberley Mine (Frances Baard)
MR FARIED SALLIE – Managing Director: Diamond Trading Company South Africa (Frances Baard)
DR KHANYISO MBULAWA – Managing Director: Kkhasa Performance Management (Frances Baard)
MR JAMES MANIS – Manager Health Safety Environment Community: Hotazel Manganese Mines (John Taolo Gaetsewe)
MS ANEL MARAIS – Sustainable Development Manager: Kumba Iron Ore
MS VERONICA VAN SCHALKWYK – Social Development Officer: Karsten Boerdery (Siyanda)
MS LOUISE WESSELS – CSI Manager: Idwala Lime (Siyanda)
MR JOHAN BARNARD – Training Coordinator: Black Mountain Mining (Namakwa)
MS THERESA MARAIS - Human Resources Officer: GWK Beperk (Pixley Ka Seme)