University of Cape Town

Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics in UCT’s School of Management Studies, and is the chairperson of the Free Society Institute, a secular humanist non-profit organisation. He has been on the academic staff since 2001, during which time he has chaired the Academic Freedom Committee, and has also served, or is serving, on various committees including Senate and the Senate Executive Committee.

Waheeda Amien is a Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), an admitted Attorney of the High Court, with right of appearance in the High Court, and a Family Law Mediator.

Professor Amien holds a BA LLB (Cape Town), LLM in Constitutional Litigation (Western Cape), PhD (Ghent). She is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C2 Rated Researcher (2019 -2024).

Tom Moultrie is Professor of Demography in the Faculty of Commerce.

He holds a BBusSc (Actuarial Science, UCT 1992), an MSc in Economics (Development Studies, with distinction, LSE 1998) and a PhD in demography (LSHTM 2002). After returning to UCT as a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2005, and promoted ad-hominem to Associate Professor (2009) and Professor (2015). In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the University of Cape Town.

Tracey Naledi is an Associate Professor of Public Health Medicine and the Deputy Dean: Social Accountability and Health Systems in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Tracey has held technical and management roles in the government and NGO sectors in South Africa and Botswana.

Mr Nkume holds a National Certificate Vocational (NCV) Level 3 in electrical engineering from Northlink College.

He joined the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2016, serving initially in the Department of Student Affairs. He is now a Campus Protection Officer.

Mr Nkume is a member of UCT’s Institutional Forum. He is also a member of, and shop steward for, the Democratised Transport Logistics And Allied Workers Union, which organises in pay classes 2–12 at UCT.

Mr Moollatjie is currently employed at the University of Cape Town as an Employee Relations Specialist. He holds an LLB degree (UWC), a PGDip: Labour Law (cum laude) (UWC) and an LLM: Labour Law (cum laude) (UCT).

At UCT he currently serves as a member of Senate, HRTAC and the HR Employment Equity Committee. He is a member of the National Employee Relations Forum for Higher Education and currently holds the positions of chairperson for the Western Cape Region and secretariat of the executive committee.

Dr Sharon Munyaka holds a Doctor of Commerce in Industrial Psychology from Nelson Mandela University. She is a Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) registered Industrial and Organisational Psychologist after attaining her Master of Commerce at the University of Fort Hare. She is also a Certified Principal Business Psychologist at the Association for Business Psychology (UK).

Ezra Davids is the chairman of Corporate/M&A at Bowmans specialising in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities law. Ezra is also the relationship partner for several of the firm’s major clients such as PepsiCo, Bharti, Orange, Barrick Gold Corporation, Microsoft, UPS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, ExxonMobil, Total and many others.

Glenda Gray, MBBCH, FCPaeds (SA), DSc (honoris causa, Simon Fraser University 2013), DSc (honoris causa, Stellenbosch University 2018), Honorary Doctorate in Law (Rhodes University, 2019), an NRF A rated scientist, was the first female president and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at the SAMRC.