Mankone Ntsaba is the Chairperson of the board for Kagiso Trust.

Ms Mankone Ntsaba has been with the Board of Kagiso Trust since 2009 and has served as Deputy Chair of the Board of Kagiso Trust and Chair of Programmes Committee for the last six years. She has served as a member of the Board of Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), Kagiso Africa Investments (KAI) and the advisory Board of Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST).

Beyond KT Ms Ntsaba runs her own management Consulting company in the water and sanitation sector. She previously worked as a researcher and consultant at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). She has also worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Zululand and Transkei. Ms Ntsaba sits on the Board of Rand Water. She is very passionate about community development and poverty eradication. She has worked on various development programmes in rural areas of South Africa.

Reverend Frank Chikane is one of the founding members and serves as a Trustee of Kagiso Trust.

He is the former Commissioner of the first Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) which was responsible for the first democratic elections in 1994; a former Director-General in the Office of the Deputy President and later the Presidency and Secretary of Cabinet. He is the Chairperson of the Kagiso Capital (KC) board and the board of City Power Johannesburg. He is currently a Senior Vice-President of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), a Member of the Board of Sci-Bono Discovery Centre and is part of the Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST) Advisory Committee. Rev. Chikane is also a former Board Member of Thebe Investments and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

Ms. Nthobakae Angel serves as a Director of the Board of Kagiso Africa Investments (Chair), and a Trustee on the Boards of Kagiso Trust, Kagiso Capital, Dzembe Investment Company, Batho Bonke Capital, and March 1st Engineering Company.

Her career spans the private, government and NGO sectors. From 2001 to 2003, she was seconded to the Presidency and served as Chief Operations Officer of Strategic Planning and Communications. From 2004 to 2005 she served as CEO of Mvelaphanda Resources. Ms. Angel was Chair of the women’s investment company, Tsarona Investments, and served as external advisor to the South African board of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. She was Chairperson of Kagiso Trust Investments and Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), and a Director at ABSA Group, ABSA Bank, Open Africa Organisation and Batho Bonke Capital.

Dean Zwoitwaho Nevhutalu serves as a Trustee at Kagiso Trust (KT) and has been involved with KT since 1986. He is a Pastor by profession and has spent a number of years working as the Superintendent General of the Limpopo Provincial Department of Education.

Dean Nevhutalu has served as Chairperson at Kagiso Trust, the Independent Electoral Commission in Limpopo, the Institute of Contextual Theology and Educational Aid Programme, Transvaal branch.

His involvement in community programmes includes being Chairperson of Ecumenical Confessing Fellowship and Educational Aid Programme. He was also involved in the monitoring of the DRC presidential elections. He is a member of the National Project Consolidate Advisory Working Group, chairperson of Kagiso Trust Consultancy and served on the boards of Transitional National Development Trust, CODESA, and Mulweli Counselling Centre.

Mr. Thabiso Ratsomo serves as a Trustee and Vice-Chairperson at Kagiso Trust.

He has extensive experience in the government and non-government sectors, and possesses a deep understanding of the South African political, social, legislative and economic situation through personal activism and his academic studies. Mr. Ratsomo belongs to the 1976 generation of political activists

Mr Ratsomo has operational experience in human resource management, financial management, organisational development, policy development and management, and project management and analysis.

He is also a Member of the Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and Advisory Board of SA Small, Medium Enterprise Corporation (SASMEC). Mr Ratsomo serves on the Board of Kagiso Africa Investments.

Mr. Aboobaker currently serves as a Trustee at Kagiso Trust. His involvement with Kagiso Trust stretches back to 1987.

Mr. Goolam Aboobaker worked as a medical physicist before becoming Special Assistant to the late Professor Jakes Gerwel at the University of the Western Cape in 1988. In 1995, he was appointed Director of Cabinet Research in the late President Nelson Mandela’s office, and in 1997 Chief Director of Economic Development in the policy unit of the office of the deputy president. After his tenure as the Senior Advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr. Aboobaker was appointed Deputy Director-General in the Ministry of Finance.

Mr. Aboobaker was a founding member of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Durban and was also involved in the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

Mr. Hylton I. Appelbaum is deeply involved in community development, socio-economic development, welfare and education in South Africa. He serves on the boards of many welfare and development organisations. He serves as a Trustee of Kagiso Trust, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the National Business Initiative, the Donald Gordon Foundation, Helen Suzman Foundation and Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust.

Mr. Appelbaum is Chairman of Mindset Network and its subsidiaries. He is committed to improving education in South Africa and has for more than two decades worked to this end. He has been a pioneer in the use of various media in the production and delivery of educational materials.

Mr. Appelbaum has been Non-Executive Director of Liberty Group Ltd. He serves as a Non-Executive Director at Kagiso Media Ltd, Kagiso Capital, Freeplay Holdings of Freeplay Energy Plc. and serves as Director of DeMorgenzon Wine Estate. He also serves as a Director of The Synergos Institute Incorporated and Education Interactive Incorporated. He serves as Executive Trustee of Liberty Foundation and Liberty Educational Foundation.

Mr. Andrew Phillip Maralack serves as a Trustee at Kagiso Trust.

Mr. Maralack is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sizwe Business Recoveries (Pty) Ltd. He is also the Chief Financial Officer and served as Executive Director at Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium Ltd.

Mr. Maralack is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in finance, auditing, business turnarounds, corporate recovery, consulting, retirement fund industry and corporate governance. He is a member of the Finance Committee of the Cape Town University of Technology and a former member of the Audit Committee.

Tessa Dooms is the Director of Jasoro Consulting, a newly established Development Consultancy that provides organisations with services on policy, programming and organisational strategies toward the development of Africa. Jasoro provides policy analysis, programme development, facilitation and training, and development communications services across sectors nationally and internationally. Tessa has 15 years’ experience as a development worker, trainer and researcher with expertise on governance, youth development and innovation. In 2015 Tessa was appointed to the National Planning Commission to advise the President on the implementation of the National Development Plan of South Africa. She has successfully led, a policy think-tank called Youth Lab and has lectured at three South African Universities. She is also on the board of the Kagiso Trust. Tessa holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand.