Career

CAREER

Years Company/Organisation Position

2013/2014 AgangSA Founder Leader

2010/2012 Gold Fields Limited Chair

Technology Innovation Agency Chair

Letsema Circle Executive Chair

2006/2012 Medi Clinic Holdings Non Executive Director

2005/2009 Circle Capital Group Executive Chair

2005/2007 Standard Bank Ltd Non Executive Director

2013 Remgro Limited Non Executive Director

2004/2005 Global Commission on International Migration Co Chair

2000/2004 The World Bank Managing Director

1998/2000 South African Reserve Bank Non Executive Director

1996/2000 University of Cape Town Vice Chancellor

1995 Institute for Democracy in South Africa Director; Public Information

1991/1995 University of Cape Town Deputy Vice Chancellor

1991/1995 Equal Opportunities Research Project Director

1986/1991 UCT - Tenure Social Anthropology Senior Research Officer

1984/1986 SALDRU (South African labour & Development Research Unit Fellowship

1878/1984 Ithuseng Community Health Programme (Tzaneen) Founder & Medical Officer in Charge

1976/1977 Black Community Programmes (Eastern Cape Branch Manager

1975/1977 Zanempilo Community Health Centre (King Williams Town) Founder & Medical Officer

1974/1975 Mt. Coke Mission Hospital, KWT General Medical Experience

BOARDS AND FOUNDATIONS

Service

Active Desmond Tutu IP Trust (Chair)

Active The Club of Rome (Co President)

Active ReimagineSA (Co Founder)

2021 Indoni Arts, Dance & Leadership Academy

2019 Nelson Mandela Foundation (Founding member & Trustee)

Active South African Council of Churches Convention Process (Steering committee Member)

Active LEAP Schools (Patron)

Active Indlulamithi SA Scenarios

2013 Steve Biko Foundation

2013 Eluthandweni Homes for Aids Orphans

2013 LinkSA Trust

2013 Mo Ibrahim Foundation

2013 Open Society Foundation of South Africa

2013 Oppenheimer Memorial Trust

Active Veolia Environment Institute

2013 Ukhukula Trust (University of Cape Town)

2009 Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

2009 Fynbos Foundation

2009 Hugh Masekela Academy for the Arts & Entertainment

2009 Ifa Lethu Foundation

2009 Ithaka Foundation

2009 Library of Alexandria (Board of Trustees)

2009 Rockefeller Foundation (Trustee)

2000 UNESCO Task Force on Higher Education

2000 South African Reserve Bank Board (Member)

2013 Red Cross Children’s Hospital Trust (Patron)

2013 New Crossroads Youth Centre (Patron)

1998 Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (Chair)

1999 President’s Award Trust (Trustee)

AWARDS

2012 The National Order of the Legion of Honour - France

2012 Admitted to the Order of Simon of Cyrene

2010 Shoprite Checkers Woman of the Year - Lifetime Achiever Award

2010 School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA

2008 City Press & Rapport Award

2008 SAMA Award

2007 NRF Lifetime Achiever Award

2007 Global Health Sciences Award, USA

2003 The Kilby Awards Foundation, UK

2002 Outstanding International Leadership & Commitment, USA

2001 Women of Distinction, SAWWO

1996 Women of the Year - Shoprite Checkers (Education)

1992 Woman of the Year, Women’s Bureau of South Africa (Community Health)

1991 Barnard Medal of Distinction, USA

1990 Leon/Fox Foundation of Community Relations : Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge

1990 The Alexander Petri Award - Outstanding contribution to Arts and Humanities (University of Natal)

RESEARCH AWARDS

1991/1995 Carnegie Grant for Adolescent Research in New Crossroads

1990 Anglo American and De Beers Chairman’s Fund Grant for Adolescent Research in WC Townships

1990 United Methodist Women Global Ministry’s Call for Prayer Grant for Breast Cancer research amongst women in Hostels

1989 Canadian International Development Research Centre and Ford Foundation once off grant to complete hostel research

1988-1989 Carnegie Distinguished Visiting Scholarship at Ratcliffe College’s Bunting Institute

1987 Carnegie Corporation travel grant to USA visit intervention programmes aimed at American children and young people

1986 Anglo American & De Beers Chairmans Fund - 3 year grant for field research work among migrant hostel dwellers in WC

1986 Ford Foundation 2 year grant

EDUCATION

1991 University of Cape Town PhD Social Anthropology

1984 University of Witwatersrand Diploma Public Health

1983 University of South Africa B. Com Administration

1982 University of Witwatersrand Diploma Tropical Health and Hygiene

1972 University of Natal MbchB Bachelor of Medicine

HONORIS CAUSA (Honourary Docorates)

2007 University of New York, USA D.H.L. Doctor of Humane Letters

2005 University of Witwatersrand, SA Lld Doctor of Laws

2005 Miami University, USA D.H.L. Doctor of Humane Letters

2005 Yale University, USA D.H.L. Doctor of Humane Letters

2004 University of Glasgow, UK DLitt Doctor of Letters

2003 McGill University, Canada D.Sc. Doctor of Science

2002 Manchester University, UK PhD Doctor of Philosophy

2002 Harvard University, USA PhD Doctor of Philosophy

2002 Emory University, USA PhD Doctor of Philosophy

2001 University of Cape Town, SA D.Sc Doctor of Science

2001 University of Nottingham, UK Lld Doctor of Laws

2001 University of Sussex, UK Lld Doctor of Laws

2000 Cambridge University, UK PhD Doctor of Philosophy

1999 University of Orange Free State, SA PhD Doctor of Philosophy

1998 Sheffield University, UK MD Doctor of Medicine

1998 University of Michigan, USA Lld Doctor of Laws

1998 Brown University, USA Lld Doctor of Laws

1997 Institute of Social Science, NL PhD Doctor of Philosophy

1997 Princeton University, USA Lld Doctor of Laws

1997 University College, UK D.Sc Doctor of Science

1991 Tufts University, UK Sc. D Distinguished Career

1989 Natal University, SA MD Doctorate of Medicine

1984 Hunters College (CUNY), USA D.H.L. Doctor of Humane Letters