Resumés of the Trustees
Mustaq Brey is Chief Executive Officer of Brimstone Investment Corporation, a black empowerment company which he co-founded in 1995.
He is non-executive chairman of Cape Capital Investment and Finance Co, Ltd and The Scientific Group (Pty) Ltd. He is also a director of several companies including Sea Harvest, Oceana Fishing Group and Lion of Africa Insurance.
Mr Brey serves on the Audit Committees of several leading organisations including the SA Revenue Services and the Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
A qualified chartered accountant, Mr Brey started his own practice M. Brey & Associates which, in 1997, evolved into the KMMT Brey Inc, the largest black auditing practice in South Africa. He is an active member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants both at regional and national levels.
He was a finalist for the Cape Times/KPMG Business Personality Award in 2004.
Fatiema Haron-Masoet
Fatima Haron-Masoet is the youngest of the late Imam Abdullah Haron’s three children.
After receiving her National Diploma in Art and Design, she worked as a pattern-maker at several leading clothing manufacturers including Woolworths, Monviso and Bibette.
She is presently a senior administrator at Masoet Dental, a family-owned business. Ms Haron-Masoet also serves on several community organisations including Radio 786 and An-Nisa, an organisation for women.
Mary Burton
Mary Burton (full name: Maria Macdiarmid Ingouville Burton) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and educated there and in Sao Paulo, Brasil. In 1961 she married Cape Town businessman Geoff Burton, and they have lived in South Africa since then. They have 4 sons and 10 grandchildren.
Ms Burton joined the Black Sash, a women’s organisation opposed to apartheid, and various other civil and human rights organisations. She served as the National President of the Black Sash from 1986 to 1990, and is currently a member of its Board of Trustees.
In 1994 she was appointed to serve as the Provincial Electoral Officer for the Western Cape province in the country’s first national democratic elections. In 1995 she was appointed by then President Nelson Mandela as a Commissioner with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
At present she is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Jakes Gerwel
Professor Jakes Gerwel is an internationally recognised academic who has been honoured by several universities worldwide.
He currently holds a number of eminent positions including that of Chancellor of Rhodes University, Chairman of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Chairman of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).
A former Rector and Vice Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, Professor Gerwel obtained his Doctor Litterarum and Philosophiae (magna cum laude) degree at the Vrije Universiteit te Brussel, in Belgium in 1979.
Professor Gerwel was Director General to former President Nelson Mandela as well as being Secretary to the cabinet of the Government of National Unity in South Africa’s first democratically elected government between 1994 and 1999.
He also serves on the boards of a wide variety of private sector organisations including that of chairman of Brimstone Investment Corporation and South African Airways.
Mr Brian Isaacs
Mr Brian Isaacs has served as principal of South Peninsula High School in Diep River since 1984.
Mr Isaacs, who holds B.Sc, HDE and M.Ed degrees from the University of the Western Cape, has been at South Peninsula High since starting his teaching career in 1977. His association with the institution goes back even further as he also completed his schooling there.
A layminister at All Saints Church in Lansdowne, Mr Isaacs also serves as secretary on a variety of community-based organisations including the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW), the Western Cape Parent Teacher Student Forum and the Lansdowne Tennis Club.
Dr Sedick Isaacs
Dr Sedick Isaacs has a long history of community involvement which has seen him devoting his time and efforts to a variety of institutions.
Dr Isaacs taught Mathematics and Physical Science at Trafalgar High School until 1964, the year in which he was incarcerated as a prisoner of conscience on Robben Island.
During his 13-year imprisonment, Dr Isaacs served as Chairman of the Education Committee and the Prisoners’ First Aid Unit. He also taught Mathematics and Science to his fellow prisoners on Robben Island.
Dr Isaacs, who completed a PhD in Epidemiology in 1990, worked as Head of the Department of Medical Informatics at Groote Schuur Hospital between 1993 and his retirement in 2005. Prior to that he worked as a statistician at Groote Schuur Hospital.
A Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Dr Isaacs is the immediate past President of the South African Health Informatics Association and is also a board member of the International Medical Informatics Association.
Mpho Ndebele
Mpho Ndebele is a retired professional social worker. She has served on varied boards, including the Environmental Development Agency, the National Business Initiative, Black Sash, Impumelelo Innovations Awards, Brimstone Investments and Siphumelele Investments. She was also vice–chairperson of the Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority.
Well–known for her work in development and leadership, Ms Ndebele was the first Executive Director of the Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat), an independent fund–raising and grant–making development agency which seeks to partner with rural community agencies in order to improve the quality of life in their communities.
She has also served as the director of the Lesotho Planned Parenthood Association, Lesotho National Development Corporation, the Christian Council of Lesotho, the SA Children’s Books Forum and the Anglican Board of Education.
At the beginning of 2010 Ms Ndebele was appointed the first Lay Canon in the Diocese of Cape Town and the first woman and lay person to be selected to the position of Chancellor of St. George’s Cathedral.
Ms Ndebele holds the degrees of BA (Economics) and MSW (Social Planning – Denver, USA).
Sabier Patel
Sabier Patel is Director - Asset Administration Operations at Finsource Fund Administration company.
Mr Patel has nearly 30 years of experience in the fund management industry having worked in senior positions in the investment divisions of several major life companies. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer at Real Africa Asset Management from 1996 until 2005.
Mr Patel is a respected player in industry forums. He is a member of the Minister of Finance's Advisory Board on Collective Investment Schemes Regulation, a member of the Compliance Institute of SA, and a representative of the Fund Managers' Association on SAICA sub-committees.
His professional memberships include the Black Management Forum (awarded Manager of the Year in 1995), the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of South Africa, the Investment Analysts Society and the Independent Black Fund Managers Association.
Mr Patel has a B.Compt degree.
