People Interviewed

Some people I have interviewed and written about...



Suresh Kana, CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers, Southern Africa

Dr Elize Strydom, Senior Executive: Employment Relations, South African Chamber of Mines

Phuti Mahanyele, CEO of Shanduka Group

David Tripp & Charles Shields, Owners Everard Read Gallery Cape Town

General Charles Bolden, Head of NASA

Jabu Mabuza, Businessman

Max du Preez, Journalist, author, TV producer

Dr Sam Motsuenyane, Businessman

Terence Nombembe, Auditor-General

Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance & former SA Revenue Service Commissioner

Adv Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector

Captain Michael Girsa – Captain / Commanding Officer SA Navy frigate SAS Amatola

Anand Sharma - India’s Minister of State for External Affairs

Mosiuoa (Terror) Lekota – Former Defence Minister, Leader of the Congress of the People

Garth Owen-Smith, Namibian conservationist extraordinaire

Mbhazima (Sam) Shilowa – Former Gauteng Province Premier, Deputy Leader of the Congress of the People

Kusi Dlamini, CEO Old Mutual Emerging Markets

Richard Dyantyi – Minister of Public Service & Administration

Prof Henri (Yatti) Bredekamp - Former Chief Executive Iziko Museums Cape Town

Helen Zille – Western Cape Premier, Leader of the Democratic Alliance, and former Cape Town Mayor

Ebrahim Rasool – Former ANC Premier of the Western Cape

Achmat Ebrahim – Cape Town City Manager

Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks - President of the South African Muslim Judicial Council

Magboeba Davids – PRO Islamic Unity Convention and chair of Women’s Forum

Moulana Yusuf Karaan - Head of Muslim Judicial Council Fatwa Committee & Head of MJC Muslim Personal Law Board

Gail Kelly (1) – Former South African who now heads up Australia’s St George Bank

Gail Kelly (2) - CEO of the Safmarine Agency in South Africa

Prof Sipho Seepe - Political analyst, Director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology & former President of the SA Institute of Race Relations

Prof Geoff Brundrit - Emeritus Professor of Physical Oceanography at the University of Cape Town

Tokyo Sexwale – Minister of Human Settlements & Executive Chairman of Mvelaphanda Group Limited

Mikki Xayiya - Deputy Chairman Mvelaphanda Group Limited

Yolanda Cuba - CEO of Mvelaphanda Group

Kodwo Mills – CEO of Shanduka Group

Jannie Durand – CEO of VenFin

Thys Visser - CEO and Deputy Chairman of Remgro

Sarah Calburn – Architect, Johannesburg

Mokena Makeka – Cape Town architect & Senior Partner at Makeka Designs

Llewellyn van Wyk - Senior researcher at the Built Environment Unit of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Mike Fennell - Executive headmaster of King Edward VII School, Johannesburg

Hammies van Niekerk - Headmaster of Jan van Riebeeck High School, Cape Town

Deanne King - Headmistress at St Mary’s School, Johannesburg

David Lovatt – Headmaster, Hilton College, KwaZulu-Natal

Johan Volsteed - Head Grey College, Bloemfontein

Pieter le Roux – Head of Institute for Social Development at the University of the Western Cape

Clem Sunter – Former Anglo American Corp director & iInternationally respected scenario expert

Professor Nicky Morgan - University of Johannesburg

Dr David Dodman - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London

Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert - (since deceased) former polictician and academic

Patricia de Lille – Mayor of Cape Town

Gary Bailey - former Manchester United and England goalkeeper

Prof Mervyn King – Corporate governance guru and author of the King Reports on Good Governance

Dr Janelle Barlow – Professional motivational speaker from Las Vegas, US

Carole Spiers - motivational speaker, counsellor and a broadcaster for the BBC

Richard Mulvey - President of Professional Speakers Association of SA.

Dr Mamphela Ramphele - former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town

Jay Naidoo - Businessman activist, former trade unionist and RDP minister in the government of Nelson Mandela

Reuel Khoza - chairman of Aka Capital, Nedbank Group and Corobrik

Kallie Kriel - Trade unionist and civil liberties activist who heads AfriForum

Rick Menell – Businessman and former CE of Anglovaal Mining, African Rainbow Minerals and TEAL Exploration

Paul Hanratty - Managing director of Old Mutual South Africa

Gaby Magomola, former banker.

Braam Malherbe - TV's 50/50 presenter who ran the Great Wall of China

Larry Joe, ex-convict turned successful musician

Aron Tuest-Swartz - founding member of the band FreshlyGround

Tsietsie Mokhele, CEO of SAMSA

Sebine Lehman, CEO Table Mountain Cableway Co

Ben Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra & motivational speaker

Yolande Duvenhage, CEO eBucks

Jordan Belfort, Wall Street crook and jailbird turned author and motivational speaker


Dr Francois Bonnici, social entrpreneur

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