Our Trustees
Zanele Mbeki (Chair)
Zanele Mbeki is a founder member of WDB and is currently a trustee of the WDB Trust. She is a qualified
social worker and is deeply committed to the social upliftment and economic empowerment of women in South Africa. She plays an active role as trustee and director on a number of national and international
boards of institutions which promote social and
economic development.
Daphne Mashile-Nkosi (Depurty Chair)
Daphne Mashile-Nkosi is the chairperson of WDB
Investment Holdings and the deputy chairperson of
the WDB Trust where she was a founding member
and a development officer for WDB Micro Finance, assisting women to access financial resources in the rural areas of South Africa.
She is also a founder member, shareholder and director of Temoso Technologies. Mashile-Nkosi serves on the boards of Eyesizwe Coal, Nuworld Logistics and Thari Mining. She is also a shareholder of Cellsaf, one of the companies which have a share at Cell C, and also chairs the Mpumalanga Gaming Board. Currently, she is the chairperson of Kalagadi Manganese. Mashile-Nkosi was nominated by WDB to study development economics in Nagoya, Japan
Colin Hall
Colin Hall was educated at Durban High School and Pretoria Boys High School. He has BA (Hons.) B. Juris. Hall was chairman of Woolworths Holdings and Cadiz Holdings, and is still non-executive Director of Cadiz Holdings.
After qualifying in law he spent 20 years with South African Breweries, ultimately serving as a director on its board. While practising as a management consultant, he served on the boards of a number of South African companies.
He was a member of the Wooltru board since its inception and was appointed chief executive officer of the Wooltru Group in 1988. Hall was appointed chairman of the Wooltru Group in 1996 and retired in 2000.
His passion is people, as individuals, in teams and as part of society. Because of this passion he visited the Covey Institute in Utah (USA) and completed its Facilitator Training Programme. He bought the rights to Covey and introduced and facilitated these programmes in South Africa. He introduced the Wooltru Leadership Programme while chairman of the Wooltru Group. He spent the past 17 years conducting programmes that are changing corporate culture.
When Wooltru took the decision to liquidate in 2000, he took the Wooltru Leadership Programme and began to run the programmes independently as Leadership - A Simpler Way (trading as “Learning To Lead”). From this programme, he hopes to create new simpler pictures of leadership relevant to the Information age.
Michael Katz
Michael Katz is chairman of Edward Nathan.Katz
holds BCom LLB from the University of Witwatersrand
(Wits) and LLM Harvard Law School. He also holds
a LLD (hc) from Wits. He is director of numerous
companies as well as a trustee of numerous trusts.
He is also the course director at Wits Law School
in the Higher Diploma in Company Law and the Master of Company Law.
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