SOUTHERN AFRICAN ASSOCIATES

Enos Banda
Founder and Chairman, Freetel Group of Companies

Enos is a South African entrepreneur and investment banker who is founder and CEO of the Freetel Group of Companies. Freetel focuses on fund management, portfolio investments in a number of key sectors and investment and transaction advise to a select number of sovereign and international clients. Enos has advised in some of the seminal transactions in South Africa, including the first Johnnic BEE transaction, the then groundbreaking partial privatisation of Telkom SA, and the equally groundbreaking project financing of the first toll road from South African to Maputo. He has served as chairman of the South African National Electricity Regulator and Chairman of the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit of the SA Government. He was country head for Credit Suisse First Boston (a global investment bank) and later, head of Africa for HSBC Corporate and Investment Bank, after which he established Freetel. He has developed policies in ICT and drafted national laws in telecommunications and municipal finance and BEE. He has practised law in both the United States and in South Africa. He is admitted to the New York law bar, and he is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Enos is a member of the Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel and the Chairman of the company’s budget committee, and is a member of the Board of Supergroup and its audit committee. He sits on a limited number of boards of unlisted entities.

Richard Calland is Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre in Cape Town and Programme Manager of the Right to Know programme at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). He is a member of the International Task Team on Transparency of the Institute for Public Dialogue at Columbia University, directed by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, focusing on Corporate Transparency. He also consults extensively around the world: he has advised on transparency policy, access to information law and anti-corruption strategy to President Mesa of Bolivia, Prime Minister Patterson of Jamaica, President Toure of Mali, as well as the governments of Nicaragua and Tanzania. He is currently working on transparency in the oil and gas sectors. His has published works on whistleblowing, access to information and Thabo Mbeki’s World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President. He is a political columnist for the Mail and the Guardian. Prior to coming to South Africa in 1994 to work with the ANC’s election campaign, Richard practised law for seven years at the London Bar.

Professor Edgar Pieterse
Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town

Edgar is holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy. He directs the African Centre for Cities and is Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, both at the University of Cape Town. He previously served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his stint in government.
He is a founder member of Isandla Institute, serves on the Boards of the Sustainability Institute and the Cape Town Partnership; and is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Gauteng City-region Observatory and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He regularly provides advisory services to international development agencies such as: UN-Habitat, African Development Bank, DBSA, National Planning Commission, OECD urban division and UNEP. Edgar holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, The Netherlands) and BA-Honours from the University of the Western Cape. He has served as a Faculty Member of the Prince of Wales’s Business & Sustainability Programme at several seminars worldwide.

Stefan Raubenheimer (BA LLB) resides in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a qualified lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. He is currently CEO and founding director of SouthSouthNorth Group, which has played a leading role in climate change issues since 1999. In addition he facilitates various large projects, notably the South African Cabinet Mandated Long Term Mitigation Scenario Planning Project (LTMS). He has assisted in the establishment of Designated National Authorities (DNA’s) in South Africa, Ghana, Namibia and Mozambique. He has led the facilitation of projects within the Development Bank of Southern Africa’s Sustainable Communities Program, applying development facilitation technologies which he has developed over the last 15 years. He is a director of Energy Transformation cc which develops climate change projects for the private sector.