general info August 23, 2007

Department of Social Services reference number: 057-666

SARS PBO number: 930029899

Telephone: + 27 47 577 8900 / +27 82 870 7345

Email: sonja@bulungulaincubator.org

Bank details:
Standard Bank
Account name: Bulungula Incubator
Account number: 07 066 1480
Branch: Thibault Square
Branch code: 02 09 09 00
International SWIFT code: SBZA ZA JJ

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 52913
Mthatha
5099
South Africa

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Réjane Woodroffe
Réjane is currently the Chief Economist and Head of International Portfolio Investments for Metropolitan Asset Managers. She heads up the team that manages MetAM’s R4billion international asset exposure and also has responsibility for forecasting the local and global macro-economic variables.  Rejane serves on the Board of Directors of Rape Crisis Cape Town and is an active member of the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowships Alumni.

Dave Martin
Dave is founder and co-owner of Bulungula Lodge and is a forerunner in conceptualizing and implementing economically and ecologically sustainable tourism initiatives.  His work has included extensive lobbying with local government to provide basic services to remote rural communities, as well as researching and testing various alternative technologies, and their usefulness to improving rural living.  Dave is the head of the Eastern Cape branch of Back Packers South Africa, and a member of their National Co-ordinating Committee.  Indeed, Dave has spent much time researching how to offer the ultimate backpacking experience by extensively travelling the back roads of China, South America and most importantly embarking on an epic one and a half year journey through Africa in 1997/98 when he crossed through 24 countries using public transport.

Donna Andrews (Board member)
Donna is a political economist. She currently consults as the South African Country Director of HEKS/EPER (Swiss Inter-church Aid) as well as lectures political theory at UCT.  Her work predominately focusses on issues pertaining to socio-economic justice, development  and transformation at national, regional and international levels.   She contributed to the founding of  Jubilee South, Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network, Peoples South-South Dialogue  and worked for Alternative Information and Development Centre for many years on macro-economic policy, apartheid debt and trade and trade related issues. She currently serves on the Amandla! Collective.

Sonja Giese (Director)
Sonja Giese has 15 years experience in social and policy research, programme implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Sonja’s career has focused primarily on addressing issues of concern to children affected by HIV and AIDS. Between 1999 and 2005, Sonja established and grew the HIV/AIDS programme at the Children’s Institute (UCT), generating cutting edge research to inform policy debate and appropriate service delivery for children. She left UCT to take up a position with an international non-profit organization called Absolute Return for Kids (ARK). Here she was responsible for defining ARK’s strategy for supporting children in AIDS-affected communities in South Africa. For the past two years, Sonja has worked as an independent consultant. She is well networked within the non governmental sector, has published extensively and has represented children’s issues at national and international forums. She has been part-time Director of the Bulungula Incubator since March 2009.

Nokukhanya “Nox” Ntuli (Board Member)
Managing director of Qdos Legal Pty Ltd.  She has worked in the legal field in the UK, Zambia and South Africa. Nokukhanya has experience in the Public and Private sector including monitoring and analyzing legislation for the purpose of making submissions to parliament. Nokukhanya has experience in Employment Equity, Diversity Management, Sexual Harassment, training and facilitation, handling disciplinary and grievance matters and all other areas of employment law.

Lance Greyling (Board member)
Lance is a Member of the National Parliament representing the Independent Democrats. He is the Chief Whip of the party as well as the National Policy Convenor. His major areas of interests are the environment, rural development, energy and African affairs. Before assuming public office, Lance Greyling was the Regional Programme Manager for GLOBE Southern Africa, where he was in charge of capacitating Members of Parliament in the Southern African region on environmental and sustainable development issues.

Laura Poswell (Board member and the first school project manager)
Laura is a development economist who has extensive experience in researching education, poverty, inequality and labour markets in South Africa.  Laura’s last job was a 5 year stint at the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.  Beyond her research she has worked in program management and capacity building, with government, donors and the academic community.

Fungi Jaxa-Gwebindlala (Board Member)
Runs her own sourcing and distributing company based in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. She has held various senior business positions, including Senior Merchandise Planner for Woolworths, Senior planner for Makro, Senior Business Manager for Edcon, consulting on supply chain and sourcing. She is also serving as the Secretary General for the Regional Executive Committee of Imbumba Yamakhosikazi Akomkhulu for the Mbashe Region. The mission and the objective of this forum is to help people living in absolute poverty achieve major improvements in their lives. Fungi is a member of our local community.

Crystal Orderson (Board member)
Crystal is a television journalist who has been reporting on social issues in Africa and Asia for more than ten years.   In 1995, Crystal joined the SABC television news as an intern from the Peninsula Technikon in Cape Town. After a 1 year stint, Crystal was appointed as television reporter in the Cape Town office. It was in covering the volatile gang and PAGAD conflict that she cut her teeth as a reporter. Crystal has covered socio-economic issues in different parts of South Africa, South Asia and is currently based in West Africa setting up the SABC operation there. Crystal has covered all the major elections in South Africa since 1995. She has reported for the SABC in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia and Korea. Most recently she covered the Nigerian elections for the SABC.

Thoughout career, Crystal has been active in several community based organisations, among them the Saartjie Baartman Centre, the Women’s Media Watch and the Western Cape Youth Forum.