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Dr Snowy
Joyce Khoza
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Snowy has over 20 years of senior
management experience and has been a development activist since 1976.
Qualified as a social scientist in Policy and Research, she is currently the
Executive Manager: Knowledge Management at the Development Bank of Southern
Africa (DBSA) in Midrand - South Africa, responsible for Policy Research,
Information Analysis, Vulindlela Training Academy, Specialists Advisory
Services and Monitoring and Evaluation. Amongst other portfolios, she was a
General Manager: Research & Development at the National Electricity
Regulator (NER) responsible for Policy research, Information Technology,
Information Management, Strategy Development and Business Processes. Snowy
was also a Chief Director – Strategic Policy Development and Planning at the
National Department of Social Development (Welfare then) responsible for
Strategic Policy Development, Research Commissioning, Financial Planning,
and Information Analysis.
Snowy sits in several boards. She chairs the Centre for Social Development
in Africa board (University of Johannesburg), the Water Research Commission
(WRC) board and M-CO South Africa (PTY Ltd of Rand Merchant Bank) board,
BAHATI Holding (PTY, Ltd) board and Khayalabo Investment Holdings (PTY Ltd)
board. She sits for example as advisory board member of Chamber of Commerce
and Industry South Africa (CHAMSA), and is a member of several associations
(such as Business Women Association, South African Social Services Council,
and South African Association for Public Administration and Management).
Previously she served in boards such as StatsSA Council, FAMSA Council, and
Freights Dynamics (Transnet) board. Snowy is currently Editor-in-Chief of
the Development Southern Africa journal published and distributed
internationally (which is a DBSA product). . |
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Prof FAO (Fred) Otieno |
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Prof Otieno holds a BSc (Civil Eng) Hons, MSc and PhD in Civil
Engineering. He also holds a MBA degree from the University of
Durban-Westville, RSA. He has over 25 years work experience since graduating.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (F SAICE), Senior Fellow of the Institute
of Waste Management of SA (SFIWMSA), Corporate Member of the Institution of
Municipal Engineering of SA, and Fellow of the Water Institute of Southern
Africa (FWISA). He is also a Professional Engineer in South Africa and the UK. He is currently
employed as Professor of Civil Engineering and the Dean of Faculty of
Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). He previously worked as
a consulting engineer, researcher and entrepreneur in civil and environmental
management. He has previously consulted and continues to consult in his areas
of specialization for a number of organizations –the private sector, local
authorities, NGO’s, Government Departments, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO, and the World
Bank amongst others. Professor Otieno serves on a number of Boards. The other
roles that he plays include being a member of the Governing Council of the
African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI) of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
Second Vice President, Board and Council Member of the Water Institute of
Southern Africa (WISA), and Board Member of the Engineering Standards
Generating Body of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). He has
carried out research in a number of disciplines and projects, culminating in
various research reports and over 25 refereed journal publications and over 70
refereed conference proceedings. He is a rated Scientist with the National
Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. |
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Ms Mampiti Moselantja Matsabu |
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Ms
Matsabu is the co-founder of Dynacon Consulting Engineers (PTY) Ltd and
Director of the Environmental Division. Her areas of expertise are water
resources and environmental management with strong competencies developed over
the years in community water supply and sanitation; project appraisal and
evaluation; water treatment and pollution control; environmental compliance and
impact assessments (EIA) and climate change and global warming issues. She is the incumbent
Chairperson of Bloem Water. She is currently studying towards a doctorate at the Centre
for Water in the Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interest
leans towards water governance issues in the context of integrated catchment
management in line with South Africa’s water policy. |
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Dr Doug Merrey |
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Douglas J Merrey, Director for IWMI, Africa, is a social anthropologist who has
worked on water and irrigation institutional issues since the mid-1970s. He has
been employed by IWMI since 1985, with a brief break in 1996. Before joining
IWMI he worked for Colorado State University, USAID, and a private consulting
firm. His research area is focused on the
institutional arrangements at local, national and transboundary river basin, and
national levels for
management of water resources, especially for irrigation. He was Deputy
Director-General for Programmes from 1998 to the end of 2000, when he was
appointed Director of IWMI's new Africa regional office. He has lived and worked in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka,
Indonesia, and Egypt before moving to South Africa; and has done shorter term
assignments in Nepal, Philippines, and other developing countries. He is
supported by his wife, Karen, also an anthropologist. |
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Mr Martin Rall |
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Mr Rall currently heads the NGO, The
Mvula Trust, which is the largest in the water sector in South Africa.
This involves overseeing project implementation activities on over 600
projects, carried out by over 100 staff in 10 provincial offices and head
office, with an annual turnover of around R140m. Mr Rall has extensive
experience in financial management, leadership in developing strategic
partnerships, fundraising, starting new initiatives around advocacy and
policy development, monitoring and evaluation, and logical framework (ZOPP)
planning. He is also experienced at field level in designing, driving and
evaluating low-cost, demand responsive, rural water supply and small scale
irrigation programmes in Mozambique. He has coordinated whole
community-based rural infrastructure programmes over 4 years. He possesses
specialist skills and knowledge of appropriate technologies, demand
responsive, community managed programmes, participatory training and
facilitation approaches, project management, budgeting, participatory and
community managed M&E, public-private sector-NGO partnerships, amongst
others. He has had specialist training and some experience in commercial
agricultural mechanisation, particularly in citrus farming, including fruit
processing equipment and pack shed layout and flow design. |
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Prof Janine Adams |
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Dr Adams is a senior scientist and
researcher in the water sector, specializing in estuarine ecology and
management. She is an expert on the freshwater requirements of estuarine
plants and is presently a Professor (Department of Botany) at the University
of Port Elizabeth. In 1999 Janine was appointed team leader of the estuarine
reserve group. This group was responsible for the development and testing of
methodologies for ecological reserve determination to allow implementation
of the National Water Act (NWA). As part of CERM (Consortium for Estuarine
Research), one study was based on the importance of the river-estuary
interface zone. Professor Adams headed this study. Janine was also the
coordinator of the estuarine group that put together the methods of
resource-directed measures for estuaries. This allows for the implementation
of the NWA which requires that the ecological reserve of estuaries be set
before licences for water utilization can be issued. |
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Mr
Maxwell Sirenya |
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Mr Sirenya studied in the UK where he
gained knowledge on Financial Reporting Development in the Water Authorities
of England and Wales. He worked at Umgeni Water as Reticulation Manager
where he was tasked to establish the department which deals with the retail
side of water provision. From 1993 to 1994 prior to the Elections, Maxwell
was seconded by Umgeni Water to work in Durban with the Consultative
Business Movement (CBM) as part of a Secretariat that helped set up the
KwaZulu-Natal Region Economic Forum. Mr Sirenya served in a number of
committees including WRC committees, where he has evaluated research
proposals. He was also involved in the amendments of the National Water Act.
As the CEO of Amatola Water, Mr Sirenya supports the Integrated Water
Management System. Through his team at Amatola Water, he was able to ensure
that water services provision has been extended beyond Buffalo City District
Municipality. In the community, as a former teacher, Maxwell continues to be
associated with educational issues, being on the Governing Bodies of a
number of schools in Pietermaritzburg. He is interested in languages, his latest addition being French. |
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Ms Virginia G. Nomsa Mkaza |
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Languages: English, Sotho, Tsoana,
Portuguese, Xhosa and Zulu
Key Qualifications and Work Experiences:
Nomsa is a Social Development Practitioner and a Director of ACETE (Agency
for Community Education, Training and Empowerment) .
She has undertaken extensive work in the Department of Water affairs and
Forestry, Local Government and Housing, and Municipalities with a strong
community perspective, utilising techniques and activities such as carrying
out surveys, reviews, training, production of educational materials, and
monitoring and evaluation. She has displayed an ability to work effectively
at both strategic and community levels.
Nomsa has experience in conducting water conservation awareness and
education campaigns, has undertaken water cost recovery research including
project awareness, for the European Union DFID and DWAF funded projects.
She has worked for National DWAF Office as part of BOTT review Team,
Department of Housing as part of National Housing Review Team. She has done
several Socio Economic studies for different organizations among which we
can mention South African Road Agency, Buffalo City Municipality, European
Union/ Lusaka Urban markets in Zambia.
She has done extensive work in land restitution with the Regional Land
Commissioner. She has a teaching experience with International School of
Maputo as well as Mabathoana High School in Lesotho. She was involved in
restructuring of Centre for Health Education Department in Mozambique under
UNICEF programme, merging the clinical approaches with Primary Health Care
approaches. Nomsa was also involved in research on the issue of “Woman in
Development”, for the United Nations Development Programme and the
Government of Mozambique.
She has managed various projects Nationally, Provincially and Regionally
She holds an M Ed. degree from Manchester University, BA Ed & Soc. from
National University of Lesotho as well as several diplomas including Water
and Sanitation Engineering, Health Education, and International Development
all from well known tertiary institutions.
Educational Qualifications:
Masters in Education Manchester UK / Dip. International Dev. Oslo, Norway /
Dip. Health Education Leeds, UK
Dip. Water and San. Eng. Loughborough, UK / BA Ed & Sociology National
University of Lesotho |
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Prof Elizabeth May Stack |
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Prof Stack was employed as an accountant in commerce
while studying towards her first degree. She served articles with Peat
Marwick Mitchell in Pretoria, while qualifying as a
Chartered Accountant. She then joined UNISA as a lecturer in the Department
of Accounting in 1982 and later the Department of Applied Accountancy and
obtained the MCompt and DCompt degrees during this period. Prof Stack was
appointed Professor in 1989 and as Deputy Head of the Department of Applied
Accountancy in 1992. She joined the Rectorate in 1993 as Director of Finance
and later Registrar of Finance. Prof Stack opted for early retirement in June
1998 and joined Rhodes University in July 1998, as
lecturer and as Head of Department (from July 1999 to December 2003). She has supervised
several masters and doctoral students. She was appointed as Extraordinary
Professor at the University of Pretoria. Prof Stack serves as a member of the Policy Board for
Financial Services and Regulation, the Audit and Finance Committee of the Water
Research Commission, the Board of Trustees of the Water Research Commission
Pension Fund and
is a member of the Special Consumer Court, appointed by the Minister of Trade
and Industry. She also serves on a number of university bodies. |
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Mr DP Naidoo |
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Dhesigen has been a serving member of the South African government since
1996. Since 1990 he has been a biotechnology researcher at the University
of Cape Town. In a parallel life, as with many black South Africans,
Dhesigen has been involved in various roles in the South African
progressive movement both in the political and labour arenas since school.
Dhesigen is currently Group Executive: S&T International in the Ministry
of Science and Technology and is the head of Science and Technology
International Co-operation and Resources in South Africa. He is also a
Council member of the Africa Institute of South Africa.
He has previously served as Chief Director Environmental Planning and
Co-ordination and was for 18 months seconded to be South Africa’s Policy
and Substance Co-ordinator for South Africa’s participation and chairing
of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002.
He has also served as South Africa’s first Water Conservation Director and
has in this capacity set up a national Water Conservation and Demand
Management competence in South Africa.
Dhesigen was also a member of the team that conducted South Africa’s first
Research and Technology Foresight exercise.
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Dr Rivka Kfir |
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Dr Rivka Kfir has an M.Sc degree in
Life Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and a D.Sc in Medical Microbiology, University of Pretoria. The thesis of her
D.Sc, obtained in 1981, was on detection of potential carcinogens and toxicants
in water. Over and above these scientific qualifications, she participated in
the Senior Executive Programme and the
International Executive Masters Programme at the London Business School, receiving her M.Sc, cum
laude, from the University of London in 1996. Rivka came to South Africa from Israel in 1978, when she took
up a position as Senior Research Officer at the National Institute for Water
Research, CSIR. Until 1988 she held various research positions, working on
biotoxicology, development of detection methods for toxicants, mutagens and
carcinogens in water, the production and characterization of monoclonal
antibodies against snake venom toxins and toxins isolated from blue green algal
blooms and the development and application of techniques for the isolation and
identification of bacteria and viruses from water. In 1988 she became Programme
Manager of the Health Programme in the Division of Water. Rivka was appointed
Acting Director of the Division of Water Technology, CSIR. In the period
1996-2000 she fulfilled the role of Technology Manager in the CSIR, which
entailed managing the CSIR’s internal investments. In 2000 Rivka jointed the
NRF as Executive Director: Knowledge
Management and Strategy, assuming responsibility for leading and managing the
organisation’s strategic and operational activities using a knowledge
management framework, and providing strategic processes and tools for enhancing
the efficacy and effectiveness of the organisation. In July 2001 Rivka was head
hunted to fill the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Water Research Commission (WRC), a
position she currently holds. |
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Mr Jabu
Sindane |
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Jabulani
Sindane is the Director General of Water Affairs and Forestry since
September 2005. He has extensive experience in the management of Government
departments at provincial and national levels as well as wide experience in
management and research in the private sector as well as at parastatal
institutions.
His qualifications are as follows:
Dip Labour Studies Sussex (UK), BA Politics (Hons), MA African Politics
(Unisa), Management Advanced Programme Diploma (Wits Business School),
Senior Executive Programme (Wits Business School). |
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