Our Board Of Directors
Ensuring Good Corporate Governance


Mr Walaza Mazule
Mr Mazule is a farmer from Mt Frere in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and an Agriculturist who is serving as the Eastern Cape Chairperson of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA). He is the Founder of Matyeni Cooperatives and the District Chairperson of the National Emerging Red Meat Producers Organisation (NERPO). Mr Mazule has a qualification in Organic Farming from the Kenya Institute of Organic Farming, has a qualification in Development Studies from Tsuda College in Japan and participated in a Developmental Study Tour hosted by the Organization of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) in Zimbabwe.

Mr Simon Leegwater
Mr Leegwater graduated with a BSc Mechanical Engineering in the Netherlands and completed a Certificate of Competence in South Africa. He is a former Beier Group Chief Engineer, who also played an active role in the former Transkei Gcuwa wool factory.

Dr Nandipha Toyota Ndudane-Tyumre
Dr Ndudane-Tyumre is the Principal of the Tsolo Agriculture and Rural Development Institute. She graduated with a Bachelor in Veterinary Medicine & Surgery from the Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) and with a MSc (Animal Pathology) from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Ms Lilitha Mahlati
Working as an Investment Banker, Ms Lilitha Mahlati has graduated with a Bachelors’ Degree in Business Science (Finance Honours) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and with a Masters Degree in International Business from Hult University in Shanghai, China.