Board Members
Wilhelmina is an international gender activist and trade unionist. She has a resilient education background, with a particular interest in Community Adult Education, and currently works as an independent consultant to the labour movement
Wilhelmina Trout
Chairperson
Bonke possesses a rich range breadth and depth of experience and an intimate knowledge and understanding of the Built Environment. Bonke has spent over 20 years in a variety of senior management and leadership roles as a committed, diligent and passionate Built Environment Practitioner who believes in authentic, intentional, and collaborative partnerships. Bonke currently serves as a Director at Alwyn Laubscher & Associates (AL&A), a consulting company specializing in Development Management, Project Management and Construction Project Management in the Built Environment. He is Vice-President of the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) and a Council Member of Council for the Built Environment (CBE).
Bafikile Bonke Simelane
Vice-Chairperson
Rugaya is a chartered accountant with more than 15+ years’ experience in public practice. She is the managing director at Verryn & Co Inc., an accounting and auditing firm in the southern suburbs. She is a registered member of SAICA and IRBA.
Rogaya Edwards
Treasurer
Tasleema has expertise in the fields of Architectural Education and the Built Environment and has a special interest in Earth Architecture. She is currently lecturing at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).
Tasleema Mohamed
Board Member
Lusanda has over 20 years’ experience in the property and affordable housing sector. She is the CEO of TUHF21, uMaStandi and Intuthuko Equity Fund. She joined the TUHF Group of Companies in 2007 as Portfolio Manager, launched its Kwa-Zulu Natal operations in 2009 and later served as Development Impact Executive. Before this, Lusanda was the Grants and Procurement Manager at the Support Programme for Social Housing and Housing Services Manager at Cope Housing Association. In addition to her experience as an executive, Lusanda has board level experience in the private, NGO and public sectors. She is the Chairperson of Rand Water Foundation and previously served as Chairperson of Communicare and the Land Affairs Board. She serves as a board member of the Johannesburg Inner-city Partnership, Maker’s Valley Partnership and WaterCan. She previously served as non-executive director at Ekurhuleni Housing Company and as Trustee at ApexHi Charitable Trust. Lusanda holds an advanced business degree, an MBL (UNISA), and an MSc in Development Planning (Wits). She completed the Executive Programme in Advanced Property Development (Graduate School of Business, UCT) and a Housing Finance Course at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania, USA). Lusanda is dedicated to transforming township economies and inner-city areas around South Africa. As CEO of TUHF21, she works to drive financial inclusion, contribute to urban development and aims to achieve real development impact.
Lusanda Netshitenzhe
Board Member
Simone le Grange is an architect and urban designer. She attended Harold Cressy High School in the tumultuous 1980s, when South Africa was burning under the final throws of the apartheid government. She studied architecture at UCT, where her desire was from the start to find ways in which her discipline could provide for the most oppressed people. Her 1996 thesis was concerned with development within the buffer strips of the apartheid city, in a bid to “knit back together” our segregated cities. She went on to complete a master’s at UC Berkeley, with the help of a Fulbright Scholarship. Her first ten years after qualification were spent in practice, where together with her father Lucien, she worked on predominantly state funded socially driven projects within the Cape Flats. Schools, Health Clinics, Community Centres and Restitution Urban Design projects provided valuable learning opportunities. Since 2008 she has been a permanent member of staff at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. As Senior Lecturer she is engaged with students and staff on design research work that focusses on spatial justice and redress.
Simone Le Grange
Board Member