Beneficiary Ambassadors

Dr Sam Motsuenyane Rural Development Foundation

Dr Motsuenyane is one of South Africa’s most distinguished business leaders.  The black doyen and father of black business.  He was the National Secretary and organiser of the African National Soil Conservation Association and National President of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC) for 24 years. Under his tenure numerous NAFCOC sponsored businesses and companies were formed including the African Bank, Black African Development and Construction Company amongst others.

He was in the leadership of NAFCOC that conceived the birth of the African Bank (“the Bank”). Dr Sam Motsuenyane led the initiative by NAFCOC to establish African Bank. Through their perseverance and passion to be economically self-sufficient, they were able to mobilise black communities to contribute toward the R1 million that was required to organize the Bank for it to open its 1st branch in Ga-Rankuwa in 1975.  It took him 10 years to raise the capital required.

He retired from NAFCOC in  1992 and joined parliament where he was appointed leader of the house of senate and later the 1st Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1996 to 2000. He was also accredited as an Ambassador to Oman, Yemen, Kuwait and Bahrain.

United Kingship Royal Holdings Foundation

A royal leader, innovator and guardian of culture, he has dedicated his life to serving his people. He is currently serving a consecutive term as a member of Mpumalanga House of Traditional Leaders and was elected the Leader of Delegation for Mpumalanga House of Traditional Leaders. He has been elected to the position of Deputy Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders since 2014. In November 2017 he was elected Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders and has been interacting with various arms of Government on matters relating to the advancement of traditional governance and economic development. As Ikosi yeNdsundsa Mabusa, he presides over the annual Ndsundsa Mabusa Heritage, which celebrates the cultural diversity in his community. An entrepreneur and businessman, he also sits on several boards of companies, including Khusi Group and its subsidiaries.

Agricultural Development Agency (AGDA)

As Chief Negotiator for the National Party Government, Roelf was intimately involved in the settlement of the South African conflict. Together with his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, Chief Negotiator for the African National Congress (ANC), Roelf negotiated the end of apartheid and helped pave the way to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. After the elections, Meyer continued in his post of Minister of Constitutional Affairs in the Cabinet of President Nelson Mandela.

Roelf was chair of the South African Defence Review Committee (2011 to 2014), and currently serves on the boards of various companies. He is an active consultant on peace processes, and has advised parties in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Burundi, Iraq, Kosovo, the Basque Region, Guyana, Bolivia, Kenya, Madagascar, and South Sudan.

He practiced as a lawyer in Pretoria and Johannesburg before entering politics as Member of Parliament in 1979. He resigned from active politics after 21 years at the end of January 2000. During this period he served as Deputy Minister of Law and Order, Deputy Minister of Constitutional Development, Cabinet Minister of Defence, and Cabinet Minister of Constitutional Affairs.

On 27 March 2009, President Kgalema Motlanthe awarded Roelf the Order of the Baobab in Silver for “his immense contribution in providing special support in the birth of the new democratic South Africa through negotiations and ensuring that South Africa has a Constitution that protects all its citizens”.

Roelf held the Tip O’Neill Chair in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland from 2000-2001, and is currently an honorary professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria.

Nkosi Haven

Gail Johnson is the foster mother of Nkosi Johnson, who died of AIDS in 2001 at the age of 12. Nkosi first came into the limelight in 1997 Gail Johnson, challenged a school in Melville, Johannesburg, for refusing to enrol him because of his HIV status.

Mineworkers Development Agency

Mr Tshimane Montoedi is the CEO of Mineworkers Development Agency.  He holds a degree in Organisational and Industrial Psychology, Certificate in Human Resourceand Organisational Development as well as a Certificate in Labour Law from University of South Africa. He previously served as a Director in the following entities:

• EWSETA
• Mineworkers Investment Company
• Mineworkers Investment Trust
• Unity Incorporation
• State Diamond Trader
• Minerals and Petroleum Board

The Mineworkers Development Agency (MDA) is a Non-governmental Organisation formed in 1987 and registered in 1995 as an NPO (Section 21 Company). We are currently enjoying a Public Benefit Organization status in terms of section 30 of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (as amended ), with a mandate of providing  sustainable socio-economic development initiatives to alleviate the negative impact of poverty, unemployment and inequality for former mineworkers and their communities in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and recently in Botswana.

Over the past 33 years, the MDA has assisted more than 200 000 beneficiaries across the South African Development Community. In the previous financial year, we have accessed and assisted more than 20 000 beneficiaries only in South Africa, through our community food gardens programme, woolgrower’s support initiatives, skills and enterprise development programmes amongst others.