The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa



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About Us

Directors:

Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman, SC

Advocate Paul Hoffman was born in Johannesburg and completed his secondary education at nearby St. Martins School, in 1967.
He completed his BA. LL.B at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1974.
In 1975 he was admitted as an attorney practising in Johannesburg, having served articles at Bowen Sessel & Goudvis (now Webber Wentzel) concurrently with his part-time LL.B studies.

He practised as a litigation attorney in Johannesburg and Cape Town with Bowens, Herold Gie & Broadhead, Roup Schneider and Wacks and Syfret-Godlonton Fuller Moore Inc. (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc.) between 1975 and 1980.
He was admitted as an advocate in 1980 and practised as a junior at the Cape Bar until 1995 - many of his cases have been reported in the South African Law Reports and Industrial Law Reports.
As a jurist, Advocate Hoffman was the Founding editor of Current Law Cassettes, and a part-time lecturer in law of contract and public international law at the University of the Western Cape.
He also contributed articles and a regular column to De Rebus and Consultus and was a Small Claims Court Commissioner.
He took silk in 1995 and continued to practice at the Cape Bar where he headed its advocacy skills training program.

Three successive Judges President of the Cape High Court invited him to grace their Bench as an Acting Judge.

In 2006, after twenty six years of membership, he left the Cape Bar in order to take up an appointment as Director of the Centre of Constitutional Rights.
Its mission to uphold the Constitution, dovetails with his personal commitment to the rule of law and the promotion of constitutional democracy.
As director he wrote widely on threats to the Constitution and appeared in the Constitutional Court as amicus curiae.

Since January 2009 he has been pursuing his passion for exacting accountability by setting up IFAISA.



Daan Groeneveldt

Daan Groeneveldt

Daan has had 45 years experience in Personnel management, within Local Government, Tertiary Education and the Private Sectors.

During the mid 70's, when changes to our Labour Legislation were being investigated, he was part of a task team initiated by a major British engineering multinational, to investigate the measurement and alignment of the possible new labour legislation and costs with the operational requirements of the business. The scope of the team's research involved consultation with Academics, Suppliers of Human Resource Management products and services and Users (Organisations).

As the task team activities progressed it grew in stature within the business community and attracted interest and contributions from other organizations across all economic sectors. The outcome was that the many international human resource products that were being sold into the South African business community as 'best practices' were thoroughly interrogated and adapted to support our specific workplace needs.

The most significant outcome of the task team activities was the analysis and organization of work, the relationship of jobs within the workplace and creating the focus that a job is an opportunity to perform, grow and to be rewarded according to the required level of contribution.

Later he joined an American based multinational where he was able to experience the American influences on the South African workplace and individual employees relative to their requirements for doing business in South Africa.

As a result of his wide ranging experiences, he is able to contribute the valuable perspective that the importance and levels of individual accountability is a culture, that is created and exacted by the policy makers within organizations.

His primary role at IFAISA will be to apply his experiences to facilitate the use of human resource management practices based on business rules and requirements to close the gap between understanding and complying with the requirements for fair / non-discriminatory and commercially viable employment practices, as the basic right as enshrined in the Constitution.

He has also undertaken to document all such facilitations as case studies and to make them available through an association with the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa.


Fellows:

Solomon Benatar

Solomon R. Benatar

Solomon R Benatar MBChB, DSc (Med), FFA (SA), FRCP is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of the University of Cape Town's Bioethics Centre. He was Head of the University of Cape Town's Department of Internal Medicine and Chief Physician at Groote Schuur Hospital from 1980-1999, and an annual Visiting Professor in Public Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Toronto from 2000-2007. Additional appointments that he currently holds include: Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (2008-) and Director of a NIH (Fogarty International Center) funded program for capacity building in International Research Ethics in Southern Africa (2003-2010).

His academic interests have ranged from respiratory medicine, academic freedom, medical ethics and the humanities in medicine, to human rights, health care systems, health economics and global health - on which topics he has published over 300 journal articles and book chapters. He has been an invited lecturer at many medical schools globally, has served as an ethics advisor to several organisations and was President of the International Association of Bioethics from 2001-2003.

Honours include election as: Foreign Associate Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine; Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa; Life Fellow of the University of Cape Town; Honorary Fellow South African Thoracic Society; Honorary Fellow College of Physicians of South Africa; and Honorary Fellow American College of Physicians.



Anne Pope

Anne Pope

Anne Pope LDipLib Stell BA LLB Rhodes PG Dip (International Research Ethics) UCT.
Anne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town.
She is a Member of the UCT Health Sciences Faculty Human Research Ethics Committee, the HSRC Research Ethics Committee and the UCT (Senate) Ethics in Research Committee.

Her research interests are: Property, Bioethics and Family Law.
She is Course Convenor for: Law of Property and co-convenor: HIV, Bioethics and the Law.

Recent publications:
Book:
DL Carey Miller & A Pope 2004 Land Title in South Africa Juta

Chapter in book:

Research papers and refereed articles:


Tim Dunne

Prof. T T Dunne

Tim Dunne was appointed ad hominem Professor in Statistical Sciences in 1999. He will serve as Head of Department from July 2001 until June 2009.

Tim moved to UCT from the Department of Statistics and Biometry at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where he had been lecturing since 1975. From mid-1985 to mid-1987, he was on leave in the USA, at Stanford University, the University of Minnesota and Rice University. Further leave took him as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Indiana University for the period July 1994 to June 1995.

Tim has a BA, UED, BEd, BA Hons (Mathematics) and BSc Hons (Statistics) from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and a PhD : Contributions to the theory of generalized inverses, the linear model and outliers, from UCT.

He served as President of the South African Statistical Association in 1992/93 and has been editor of the Association's newsletter. In December 1996 he organised ISBA96, the 4th World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He has been National Secretary of the South Africa Group of the International Biometric Society, and was conference organiser of the International Biometric Congress IBC98 in Cape Town. He is a Fellow and on the Council of the International Statistical Institute, and is currently the Chair of the Local Programme Committee for its 57th Session in Durban, South Africa, during August 2009.

Currently he is the Chair of the Ethics in Research Committee of the University of Cape Town Senate.

Tim Dunne has served as a consultant to the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), and is a member of the Statistics Committee of UMALUSI, the body which certifies the national school-leaving examinations. Other activities included service to the SA Institute for Drug Free Sport (SIDFS), and to the Joint Education Trust (JET). He has consulted on survey design and methodology, and medical trials and experiments, and in a wide array of educational contexts.


E-mail: Tim.Dunne@uct.ac.za

Thomas Gstraunthaler

Thomas Gstraunthaler

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thomas Gstraunthaler studied Economics and History at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain).
After gaining some work experience in the financial service industry, Thomas returned to the University of Innsbruck to become a full-time research fellow at the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.

He completed his PhD-thesis on the Risk-Management of Hospitals after the SARS-breakout in Taiwan in 2006 and joined the University of Bournemouth in the UK as a visiting Research Fellow.

In 2008, Thomas worked for Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) as Visiting Professor for a research term, before he joined the Department of Accounting at the University of Cape Town.

He established his own research unit "Accounting and Accountability in Africa", where he researches socio-political and cultural influences on Accounting.

Trustees:

Paul Barnard

Paul Barnard CA (SA), NCR DC528

Paul is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and has spent more than 25 years in various senior management positions in corporate life culminating in his role as Financial Director for RCS, a large consumer finance company. He left RCS in 2007 to start his own Financial Education company, North Star Solutions. He is passionate about improving people's personal financial lifestyles and informing South African consumers of their financial rights. Paul has served on a number of audit and risk committees where the issue of accountability is of utmost importance.

E-mail: paul@northstarsolutions.co.za

Tel: 021 686 3540
Fax: 086 621 3434
Cell: 083 260 2970



Sarah Helen Christie

Sarah Helen Christie

Ms Christie is a Judge on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Administrative Tribunal and a Deputy Member of the Appeals Board of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUETSAT). She is an arbitrator, mediator and trainer in employment law and dispute resolution and is an associate of the Institute of Development and Labour Law in the Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town. A senior commissioner of the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration she serves on various dispute resolution panels in the private and public sectors in South Africa. She has consulted to a number of public international organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, on their internal justice and dispute resolution systems.



Gavin Williams

Gavin Williams

Gavin Williams BA. LLB has extensive experience in the financial services industry in South Africa. He is currently the managing director of Global ASP Africa (Pty) Ltd. He has extensive administration experience in the day-to-day running of retirement funds and a strong understanding of administration from a life office and private administrator perspective. He has historically been a Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees to numerous pension and provident type funds.

Gavin serves, or has served, on the following Boards:

Associates:

Chris Shone

Christopher David Shone

Chris holds the degrees B Com, B Proc, LLB, LLM, MBA as well as a Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Taxation, an honours degree. He also holds a number of other qualifications including a Diploma in Insolvency Law and Practice, Certificate in Advanced Insolvency Law and Practice, Certificate in Administration of Estates, Certificate in Pension Funds Law, Certificate in Advanced Corporate and Securities Law and a Certificate in Sports Law. He has also studied various aspects of intellectual property law. He was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa in April 2007.

He was involved in the financial services sector for a number of years and since 1997 as the founder and Managing Director of the Goodall and Bourne group of companies. Chris and his partner, Hannover Reinsurance disposed of their interest in the Goodall and Bourne Assurance operations to the Constantia Insurance Group in 2005. He retained his interest in the executors and insolvency businesses, the last two now trading under the name Tontine Executors and Administrators and Tontine Advisory.

More recently Chris has become involved in the property market with an investment in a local shopping centre and providing operational legal and related advice.

He is a licensed insolvency practitioner and continues to accept appointments by the Master in both deceased and insolvent estates / companies in the Western Cape. He also actively advises creditors in liquidations on recovery and restructuring possibilities and represents creditors at meetings and assists in proving claims.

Chris was past Convenor of the Assistance Business Standing Committee of the Life Offices Association. He is also a member of the Association of Insolvency Practitioners of Southern Africa, an associate of the Association of Arbitrators of Southern Africa, registered as a Tax Practitioner with SARS and a member of the Sports Lawyers Association of SA. He is registered with the South African Rugby Union as a Player Agent.


Jeanne-Marie Tucker

Jeanne-Marie Tucker

Jeanne-Marie was born in Cape Town and finished her secondary education in 1998/9. She studied a Bachelor of Business Science at the University of Cape Town, majoring in economics. After graduating in 2005, she consulted to organisations including the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Edge Institute (Economic Development, Growth and Equity), and the South African Labour and Research Development Unit (SALDRU). At the HSRC, she worked on the KIDOL Project (Knowledge, Infrastructure and the Dynamics Of Learning) investigating the nature and scope of technology and innovation in industry in the Western Cape. She also worked on a collaborative research project between the Edge Institute and UNIDO, investigating the role and nature of foreign direct investment by South African firms into East Africa and India. Additional work with SALDRU involved running behavioural economic experiments.

After spending 5 months travelling through Southern Africa, Jeanne-Marie settled in East Africa in late 2006. After working with Pact Tanzania, costing their program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, she broadened her education into monitoring and evaluation and began working for Futures Group International under MEASURE Evaluation. Based first in Tanzania and then in Kenya (2007), she worked as an M&E consultant, assessing HIV-related public health programs in these two countries.

Jeanne-Marie is currently based in Dar es Salaam working for MEASURE Evaluation as the Data Quality Assessment Project Manager. She travels with a team throughout the country, assessing a wide variety of facility and community-based public health programs through tracking these organisations' data management and reporting systems, and providing them with capacity-building.