{"id":494,"date":"2018-04-02T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgf.org.za\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:40:49","slug":"wie-ons-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/af\/wie-ons-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Wie ons is","raw":"Wie ons is"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Stigterslid<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100.1%; height: 56px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 28.8789%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 71.1211%;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel, die weduwee van professor Jakes Gerwel, is die stigterslid van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy studeer Maatskaplike Werk aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland. As gevol van die uitvoerende rol wat professor Gerwel gespeel het in die totstandkoming van die Suidoosterfees in Kaapstad, word Phoeb\u00e9 vereer as beskermvrou van hierdie fees.<\/p>\n<p>Phoeb\u00e9 skenk na die dood van haar man, sy geliefde <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/about-paulet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paulet Huis<\/a> in KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos), aan die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy speel \u2019n aktiewe rol in die Suidoosterfees, die Jakes Gerwel Familie Trust en die Jakes Gerwel Stigting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Trustees<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Figaji (Voorsitter)<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 29.2585%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.7415%;\">Prof Brian Figaji, Voorsitter van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, is \u2019n bekende sakeman, akademikus en sosiale aktivis in Suid-Afrika. Hy het \u2019n lang geskiedenis met die Kaapse Skiereiland-Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) wat vanaf 1995 tot 2004 as Visekanselier van Skiereiland Technikon gedien het, wat die universiteit gelei het voor sy samesmelting in die nuutgestigte CPUT in 2005. Hy is ook in 2025 as die nuwe kanselier van CPUT aangestel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mustaq Enus-Brey<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 29.8597%; height: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.1403%; height: 24px;\">Mustaq Brey is die HUB van Brimstone Versekeringskorporasie, \u2019n maatskappy waarvan hy in 1995 medestigter was. Met behulp van sy besigheids- en bestuurservaring hy dien tans as nie-uitvoerende voorsitter van Oceana Group Ltd en voorsitter van International Frontier Technologies SOC Ltd. Hy dien ook as \u2019n direkteur op die direksies van Equites Property Fund, herversekeraar AON Re SA en eiendomsgroep FPG Property Fund. Mustaq is \u2019n trustee van die Mandela Rhodes-stigting. Hy dien as \u2019n trustee van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en is die voorsitter van die Groote Schuur Hospitaaltrust. Hy was \u2019n integrale deel van die begin van baie NRO\u2019s en is die stigter van die Saabri &amp; Ashrafi Relief Fund.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Annari van der Merwe<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 29.9599%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 70.0401%;\">Annari van der Merwe het haar uitgewersloopbaan in 1978 by Tafelberg Uitgewers begin as hoof van die kinder- en jeugboekafdeling en in 2008 afgesluit as uitgewershoof van Random House Suid-Afrika. Sy het baanbrekerswerk gedoen met die vestiging van Kwela Boeke vir Naspers en met die stigting van die druknaam Umuzi vir Random House. Sy het ook van 1987 tot in die middel 1980\u2019s aan die Departement Afrikaans van die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap klasgegee.<\/p>\n<p>Annari skilder nou voltyds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu het as besturende direkteur by Nedbank Afrika gedien en het in 2015 hoofbestuursbeampte en uitvoerende direkteur by die Nedbank Groep Beperk en by Nedbank Korporatiewe Bank geword.<\/p>\n<p>Voor sy betrokkenheid by Nedbank was Mfundo die algemene bestuurder van strategie en beplanning by die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens (SAID) en hy was verder verantwoordelik vir die Nuwe Vennootskap vir Afrika se ontwikkeling (NEPAD) tydens sy tydperk by die Departement van Handel en Nywerheid.<\/p>\n<p>Mfundo is die outeur van menige artikel oor ekonomiese betrekkinge asook oor ekonomiese integrasie in Suider-Afrika.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Wilmot James<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Wilmot James word w\u00eareldwyd gerespekteer as \u2019n intellektuele leier aan die spits van planet\u00eare-bedreigings- en pandemierespons, die bestuur van biosekuriteit en -tegnologie, openbare en w\u00eareldgesondheid asook die nie-proliferasie van kernkragwapens. Hy vul tans die posisie van Professor van Praktyk in Gesondheidsbeleid, -dienste en -praktyk by Brown Universiteit en is \u2019n senior adviseur vir pandemies en w\u00eareldgesondheidsekerheid by hul Skool vir Openbare Gesondheid. Terselfdertyd is hy ook \u2019n ereprofessor in openbare gesondheid by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand (Wits).<\/p>\n<p>Hy is die outeur en redakteur van \u2019n indrukwekkende lys artikels en boeke, insluitend <em>Vital signs: Health security in South Africa<\/em> (2020) en <em>Nelson Mandela in his own words<\/em> (2003). Die lekkerste werk wat hy nog ooit gehad het, s\u00ea hy, was di\u00e9 van Voorsitter van die Trusteeraad van die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Goolam Aboobaker<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Goolam Aboobaker het as mediese fisikus gewerk voordat hy in 1988 Jakes Gerwel se spesiale assistent by die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap geword het. In 1995 is Goolam aangestel as Direkteur van Kabinetnavorsing in die kantoor van President Nelson Mandela en in 1997 as Hoofdirekteur van Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling in die beleidseenheid van die kantore van die adjunkpresident. Na sy termyn as senior raadgewer by die Internasionale Monet\u00eare Fonds (IMF), is Goolam aangestel as Adjunkdirekteur-Generaal van Finansies.<\/p>\n<p>Goolam was \u2019n stigterslid van die Menseregtekommissie (MRK) in Durban en was ook betrokke by die stigting van die Verenigde Demokratiese Front (VDF). Goolam se betrokkenheid by die ontwikkelingsorganisasie Kagiso Trust strek terug tot in 1987.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Uitvoerende Direkteur<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Theo Kemp<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Theo Kemp het sy meestersgraad in kreatiewe skryfwerk aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch behaal. Hy was voorheen betrokke by verskeie projekte in die kunste in sy rol as, onder meer, projekbestuurder van die Woordfees, reklameko\u00f6rdineerder by NB-uitgewers, programbestuurder van die KKNK asook die Vrystaat Literatuurfees en as uitvoerende bestuurder van die Breytenbach Sentrum op Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Theo is die skrywer van drie romans \u2013 <em>Skool,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Strafjaart <\/em>en <em>Kein Konings<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Bosberg-boekskryf Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fourie Botha<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.7615%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha.jpg\" alt=\"Fourie Botha\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha.jpg 280w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.2385%;\">N\u00e1 twintig jaar agter \u2019n redakteur se lessenaar in uitgewerskantore, en twee jaar as liter\u00eare agent, werk Fourie Botha nou as \u2019n vryskutredakteur en redaksionele konsultant.<\/p>\n<p>Fourie is self ook \u2019n digter en het drie digbundels gepubliseer, <em>Donkerkamer<\/em>, <em>Krap uit die see<\/em> en <em>Kolam<\/em>. Sy debuutbundel is genomineer vir die Ingrid Jonker-prys.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Angela Briggs<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.5611%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4389%;\">Angela Briggs het vir 25 jaar in die uitgewersbedryf gewerk. Naas haar vryskutwerk as skrywer en redigeerder, het sy ook ondervinding van die voltydse kant van die uitgewersbedryf.<\/p>\n<p>Sy is ook tans besig met haar eie skryfprojek in die vorm van \u2019n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artworkarchive.com\/profile\/angela-briggs\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, waar sy haar liefde vir Suid-Afrikaanse boeke saambring met nog \u2019n passie van haar: kuns.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sifiso Mzobe<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30.6613%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24008\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300.webp\" alt=\"Sifiso Mzobe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300.webp 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300-200x200.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.3387%;\">Sifiso Mzobe is \u2019n gevierde Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer uit die Umlazi-township in Durban. Na sy opleiding aan die St Francis Kollege, studeer hy joernalistiek by Damlin. Sy debuutroman, <em>Young Blood<\/em>, het wye lof ontvang en verskeie gesogte toekennings gewen, insluitend die Herman Charles Bosman-prys en die Wole Soyinka-prys vir Letterkunde in Afrika. Sy tweede boek, <em>Searching for Simphiwe<\/em>, is \u2019n versameling kortverhale wat diep gewortel is in die lewe en ritmes van Umlazi. Benewens sy liter\u00eare werk, is Mzobe \u2019n joernalis by \u2019n gemeenskapskoerant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 30.5612%; height: 24px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 69.4388%; height: 24px;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh werk sedert 1990 in die uitgewersbedryf en vir die laaste een-en-twintig jaar is dit op \u2019n vryskutbasis. Suzette is \u2019n vaardige taalgebruiker en, benewens die teksredigering wat sy doen, het sy ook die volgende op haar kerfstok: manuskripkeuring en -ontwikkeling, vertaal- en proefleeswerk, projekbestuur en selfpublikasies, boek- en filmresensies (<em>LitNet<\/em>, <em>Die Burger<\/em>, kykNET se Dagbreek) asook skrywersonderhoude (RSG se Skrywers en Boeke). Sy tree verder op as mentor vir teksredakteurs en as aanbieder van redigeringslypskole.<\/p>\n<p>Sy is die medesamesteller van <em>Nuwe Kinderverseboek, Rympies vir Pikkies en Peuters, Rympies vir Kleintjies en Kleuters,<\/em> <em>Nuwe Stories 1, 2 <\/em><em>&amp;<\/em><em> 3 <\/em>en die<em> US Woordfeesbundels <\/em>vanaf 2016 tot 2019.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>NATi Jong Sterre Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rafiek Mammon<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.0621%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.9379%;\">Fafiek Mammon is \u2019n gevierde, bekroonde dramaturg en regisseur. Sy eerste toneelstuk, \u2018Seashells\u2019 in 2012 \u2019n Ovation-toekenning by die Grahamstad Nasionale Kunstefees verower. Sy tweede toneelstuk, &#8216;The Garage Sale&#8217;, het groot lof gekry as die openingsproduksie van Kunstekaap se 10de jaarlikse Fees van Nuwe Skryfwerk in 2014. Hy was die regisseer van die toneelstuk &#8216;Syria?&#8217; wat ook \u2019n Standard Bank Ovation-toekenning in 2017 by die NAF in Grahamstad gewen het.<\/p>\n<p>Hy is tans \u2019n vryskutdosent, dramaturg, teatermaker, Kunstefeesbeoordelaar, redakteur, Kunsjoernalis en rubriekskrywer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oscar Petersen<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.1624%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he-.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Petersen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he--510x510.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.8376%;\">Oscar Petersen se teaterloopbaan al langer as 30 jaar. Hy is as akteur aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad opgelei, maar sy talente sluit ook onderrig, draaiboekskryf en dans in. Danksy verhoogsuksesse soos <em>Meet Joe Barber<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber and Boeta Gamat Too<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 4 The People<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 5 School Cuts<\/em> en <em>Suip!<\/em> word hy as een van Kaapstad se voorste draaiboekskrywers en akteurs gereken.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar het ook by die Dramadepartement van die Universiteit van Kaapstad en by Universiteit Stellenbosch klasgegee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Longhope TV-skryf Mentor<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tina Kruger<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.3627%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Tina Kruger\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024.jpg 280w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.6373%;\">Tina Kruger is ervare in alle aspekte van televisie, vanaf speel voor die kameras, regisseurswerk en vervaardiging tot skryf vir die televisie en films. Sy het reeds die ontwikkeling, vervaardiging, uitsaai en verspreiding van meer as dertig plaaslike televisiereekse, twintig vollengte films, sestig kortfilms en vier internasionale medevervaardigde produksies behartig. Dit sluit die films in <em>Vir die Vo\u00ebls<\/em> en <em>Leading Lady<\/em> asook die TV-reekse <em>Getroud met Rugby<\/em> en <em>Sterlopers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tina geniet dit om jong filmmakers te mentor, sy het \u0149 grondige kennis van die plaaslike mark en sy leef daarvoor om eerlike, kragtige en oorspronklike Suid-Afrikaanse stories wat oor grense strek, te vertel.<\/p>\n<p>(Tina Kurger is ook betrokke by die <a href=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/af\/residensies\/#X-Wild-Projek-Stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-Wild-projek<\/a>.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>X-Wild-projek<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beaunella Khumalo<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.4629%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25053 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Beaunella Khumalo\" width=\"293\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-510x510.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.5371%;\">Beaunella Khumalo het \u2019n BA Honneurs in Film- en Televisiestudies met ervaring oor verskeie produksies soos Cobrizi, Mej SA en die SAFTA&#8217;s. Sy het oor verskeie departemente gewerk, insluitend skryf, produksie, uitrusting, kunsregie, rolverdeling en draaiboekkontinu\u00efteit, maar het uiteindelik besluit om te fokus op die ontwikkeling van haar vaardighede in produksie en draaiboekskryf.<\/p>\n<p>Khumalo geniet dit om oor verskillende mediums te werk en haarself uit te daag met rolle buite haar gemaksone, insluitend videografie en redigering. Kreatiwiteit staan \u200b\u200bsentraal in wie sy is; Beaunella Khumalo word gedryf deur \u2019n voortdurende begeerte om haar handwerk te leer, te groei en te verfyn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Bloukraan-boekeprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nompumelelo Sokoyi<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.6633%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24899  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.3367%;\">Nompumelelo Sandra Sokoyi is in Pearston gebore en het aan die Imizamoyethu Sekond\u00eare Skool in George gematrikuleer. Nompumelelo is \u2019n motiveringspreker, \u2019n leier in haar gemeenskap en kerk en is ook aktief betrokke by baie gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojekte. Sy is passievol oor bal- en tradisionele dans en sy leef haar in in die dramaw\u00eareld en die stories wat sy vertel.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni is \u2019n skrywer en politieke kommentator wat in Kaapstad woon. Hy ontvang die Universiteit van Johannesburg se Debuutprys vir sy debuutroman, <em>The broken river tent<\/em>, wat in 2019 gepubliseer is. Sy tweede roman,\u00a0<em>The wanderers<\/em>, is in 2021 gepubliseer.<\/p>\n<p>Hy is die hoofnavorser vir die <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/who-was-nojoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/a> wat in samewerking met die KwaNojoli Museum onderneem word.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Argivaris<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.9639%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto-.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto--510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.0361%;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman het twee dekades terug eintlik per toeval argivaris geword. Hy het sy ervaring in die geheimenisse van die argiveringsproses en -bestuur opgedoen by die Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenisargief (SAHA) en by Geskiedkundige Dokumente van Wits Universiteit voordat hy hom in Januarie 2007 by die Manuskrip- en Argiefafdeling (nou Spesiale Versamelings) van die UK-biblioteke aangesluit het tot met sy vroe\u00eb aftrede in Oktober 2018. Hy het \u2019n honneursgraad in argiefstudies by Unisa verwerf en ook onlangs sy meestersgraad in geskiedenis aan die UWK voltooi.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><strong>Paulet Huis-sjef<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilbert van Zyl<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2.png 1200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2-510x510.png 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Gilbert van Zyl is die sjef wat ons skrywers bederf met sy disse wat hy met sy groot koshart in oorvloed bedien. Gilbert is oorspronklik van Velddrif aan die Weskus, maar het vir jare lank gewerk by Queen\u2019s-kollege in Queenstown, voordat hy na KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos) verhuis het. Buiten sy werk by die Stigting, het hy sy eie spysenieringsbesigheid.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<h3><strong>Stigterslid<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100.1%; height: 56px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 28.8789%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 71.1211%;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel, die weduwee van professor Jakes Gerwel, is die stigterslid van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy studeer Maatskaplike Werk aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland. As gevol van die uitvoerende rol wat professor Gerwel gespeel het in die totstandkoming van die Suidoosterfees in Kaapstad, word Phoeb\u00e9 vereer as beskermvrou van hierdie fees.\r\n\r\nPhoeb\u00e9 skenk na die dood van haar man, sy geliefde <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/about-paulet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paulet Huis<\/a> in KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos), aan die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy speel \u2019n aktiewe rol in die Suidoosterfees, die Jakes Gerwel Familie Trust en die Jakes Gerwel Stigting.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Trustees<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Figaji (Voorsitter)<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.2585%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.7415%;\">Prof Brian Figaji, Voorsitter van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, is \u2019n bekende sakeman, akademikus en sosiale aktivis in Suid-Afrika. Hy het \u2019n lang geskiedenis met die Kaapse Skiereiland-Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) wat vanaf 1995 tot 2004 as Visekanselier van Skiereiland Technikon gedien het, wat die universiteit gelei het voor sy samesmelting in die nuutgestigte CPUT in 2005. Hy is ook in 2025 as die nuwe kanselier van CPUT aangestel.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mustaq Enus-Brey<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.8597%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.1403%; height: 24px;\">Mustaq Brey is die HUB van Brimstone Versekeringskorporasie, \u2019n maatskappy waarvan hy in 1995 medestigter was. Met behulp van sy besigheids- en bestuurservaring hy dien tans as nie-uitvoerende voorsitter van Oceana Group Ltd en voorsitter van International Frontier Technologies SOC Ltd. Hy dien ook as \u2019n direkteur op die direksies van Equites Property Fund, herversekeraar AON Re SA en eiendomsgroep FPG Property Fund. Mustaq is \u2019n trustee van die Mandela Rhodes-stigting. Hy dien as \u2019n trustee van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en is die voorsitter van die Groote Schuur Hospitaaltrust. Hy was \u2019n integrale deel van die begin van baie NRO\u2019s en is die stigter van die Saabri &amp; Ashrafi Relief Fund.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Annari van der Merwe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.9599%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.0401%;\">Annari van der Merwe het haar uitgewersloopbaan in 1978 by Tafelberg Uitgewers begin as hoof van die kinder- en jeugboekafdeling en in 2008 afgesluit as uitgewershoof van Random House Suid-Afrika. Sy het baanbrekerswerk gedoen met die vestiging van Kwela Boeke vir Naspers en met die stigting van die druknaam Umuzi vir Random House. Sy het ook van 1987 tot in die middel 1980\u2019s aan die Departement Afrikaans van die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap klasgegee.\r\n\r\nAnnari skilder nou voltyds.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu het as besturende direkteur by Nedbank Afrika gedien en het in 2015 hoofbestuursbeampte en uitvoerende direkteur by die Nedbank Groep Beperk en by Nedbank Korporatiewe Bank geword.\r\n\r\nVoor sy betrokkenheid by Nedbank was Mfundo die algemene bestuurder van strategie en beplanning by die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens (SAID) en hy was verder verantwoordelik vir die Nuwe Vennootskap vir Afrika se ontwikkeling (NEPAD) tydens sy tydperk by die Departement van Handel en Nywerheid.\r\n\r\nMfundo is die outeur van menige artikel oor ekonomiese betrekkinge asook oor ekonomiese integrasie in Suider-Afrika.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Wilmot James<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Wilmot James word w\u00eareldwyd gerespekteer as \u2019n intellektuele leier aan die spits van planet\u00eare-bedreigings- en pandemierespons, die bestuur van biosekuriteit en -tegnologie, openbare en w\u00eareldgesondheid asook die nie-proliferasie van kernkragwapens. Hy vul tans die posisie van Professor van Praktyk in Gesondheidsbeleid, -dienste en -praktyk by Brown Universiteit en is \u2019n senior adviseur vir pandemies en w\u00eareldgesondheidsekerheid by hul Skool vir Openbare Gesondheid. Terselfdertyd is hy ook \u2019n ereprofessor in openbare gesondheid by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand (Wits).\r\n\r\nHy is die outeur en redakteur van \u2019n indrukwekkende lys artikels en boeke, insluitend <em>Vital signs: Health security in South Africa<\/em> (2020) en <em>Nelson Mandela in his own words<\/em> (2003). Die lekkerste werk wat hy nog ooit gehad het, s\u00ea hy, was di\u00e9 van Voorsitter van die Trusteeraad van die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes!<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Goolam Aboobaker<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Goolam Aboobaker het as mediese fisikus gewerk voordat hy in 1988 Jakes Gerwel se spesiale assistent by die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap geword het. In 1995 is Goolam aangestel as Direkteur van Kabinetnavorsing in die kantoor van President Nelson Mandela en in 1997 as Hoofdirekteur van Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling in die beleidseenheid van die kantore van die adjunkpresident. Na sy termyn as senior raadgewer by die Internasionale Monet\u00eare Fonds (IMF), is Goolam aangestel as Adjunkdirekteur-Generaal van Finansies.\r\n\r\nGoolam was \u2019n stigterslid van die Menseregtekommissie (MRK) in Durban en was ook betrokke by die stigting van die Verenigde Demokratiese Front (VDF). Goolam se betrokkenheid by die ontwikkelingsorganisasie Kagiso Trust strek terug tot in 1987.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Uitvoerende Direkteur<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Theo Kemp<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Theo Kemp het sy meestersgraad in kreatiewe skryfwerk aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch behaal. Hy was voorheen betrokke by verskeie projekte in die kunste in sy rol as, onder meer, projekbestuurder van die Woordfees, reklameko\u00f6rdineerder by NB-uitgewers, programbestuurder van die KKNK asook die Vrystaat Literatuurfees en as uitvoerende bestuurder van die Breytenbach Sentrum op Wellington.\r\n\r\nTheo is die skrywer van drie romans \u2013 <em>Skool,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Strafjaart <\/em>en <em>Kein Konings<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Bosberg-boekskryf Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fourie Botha<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.7615%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha.jpg\" alt=\"Fourie Botha\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.2385%;\">N\u00e1 twintig jaar agter \u2019n redakteur se lessenaar in uitgewerskantore, en twee jaar as liter\u00eare agent, werk Fourie Botha nou as \u2019n vryskutredakteur en redaksionele konsultant.\r\n\r\nFourie is self ook \u2019n digter en het drie digbundels gepubliseer, <em>Donkerkamer<\/em>, <em>Krap uit die see<\/em> en <em>Kolam<\/em>. Sy debuutbundel is genomineer vir die Ingrid Jonker-prys.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Angela Briggs<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.5611%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.4389%;\">Angela Briggs het vir 25 jaar in die uitgewersbedryf gewerk. Naas haar vryskutwerk as skrywer en redigeerder, het sy ook ondervinding van die voltydse kant van die uitgewersbedryf.\r\n\r\nSy is ook tans besig met haar eie skryfprojek in die vorm van \u2019n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artworkarchive.com\/profile\/angela-briggs\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, waar sy haar liefde vir Suid-Afrikaanse boeke saambring met nog \u2019n passie van haar: kuns.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sifiso Mzobe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.6613%;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24008\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300.webp\" alt=\"Sifiso Mzobe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.3387%;\">Sifiso Mzobe is \u2019n gevierde Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer uit die Umlazi-township in Durban. Na sy opleiding aan die St Francis Kollege, studeer hy joernalistiek by Damlin. Sy debuutroman, <em>Young Blood<\/em>, het wye lof ontvang en verskeie gesogte toekennings gewen, insluitend die Herman Charles Bosman-prys en die Wole Soyinka-prys vir Letterkunde in Afrika. Sy tweede boek, <em>Searching for Simphiwe<\/em>, is \u2019n versameling kortverhale wat diep gewortel is in die lewe en ritmes van Umlazi. Benewens sy liter\u00eare werk, is Mzobe \u2019n joernalis by \u2019n gemeenskapskoerant.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.5612%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.4388%; height: 24px;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh werk sedert 1990 in die uitgewersbedryf en vir die laaste een-en-twintig jaar is dit op \u2019n vryskutbasis. Suzette is \u2019n vaardige taalgebruiker en, benewens die teksredigering wat sy doen, het sy ook die volgende op haar kerfstok: manuskripkeuring en -ontwikkeling, vertaal- en proefleeswerk, projekbestuur en selfpublikasies, boek- en filmresensies (<em>LitNet<\/em>, <em>Die Burger<\/em>, kykNET se Dagbreek) asook skrywersonderhoude (RSG se Skrywers en Boeke). Sy tree verder op as mentor vir teksredakteurs en as aanbieder van redigeringslypskole.\r\n\r\nSy is die medesamesteller van <em>Nuwe Kinderverseboek, Rympies vir Pikkies en Peuters, Rympies vir Kleintjies en Kleuters,<\/em> <em>Nuwe Stories 1, 2 <\/em><em>&amp;<\/em><em> 3 <\/em>en die<em> US Woordfeesbundels <\/em>vanaf 2016 tot 2019.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>NATi Jong Sterre Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rafiek Mammon<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.0621%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.9379%;\">Fafiek Mammon is \u2019n gevierde, bekroonde dramaturg en regisseur. Sy eerste toneelstuk, \u2018Seashells\u2019 in 2012 \u2019n Ovation-toekenning by die Grahamstad Nasionale Kunstefees verower. Sy tweede toneelstuk, 'The Garage Sale', het groot lof gekry as die openingsproduksie van Kunstekaap se 10de jaarlikse Fees van Nuwe Skryfwerk in 2014. Hy was die regisseer van die toneelstuk 'Syria?' wat ook \u2019n Standard Bank Ovation-toekenning in 2017 by die NAF in Grahamstad gewen het.\r\n\r\nHy is tans \u2019n vryskutdosent, dramaturg, teatermaker, Kunstefeesbeoordelaar, redakteur, Kunsjoernalis en rubriekskrywer.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oscar Petersen<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.1624%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-20866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he-.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Petersen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.8376%;\">Oscar Petersen se teaterloopbaan al langer as 30 jaar. Hy is as akteur aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad opgelei, maar sy talente sluit ook onderrig, draaiboekskryf en dans in. Danksy verhoogsuksesse soos <em>Meet Joe Barber<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber and Boeta Gamat Too<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 4 The People<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 5 School Cuts<\/em> en <em>Suip!<\/em> word hy as een van Kaapstad se voorste draaiboekskrywers en akteurs gereken.\r\n\r\nOscar het ook by die Dramadepartement van die Universiteit van Kaapstad en by Universiteit Stellenbosch klasgegee.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Longhope TV-skryf Mentor<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tina Kruger<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.3627%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-14484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Tina Kruger\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.6373%;\">Tina Kruger is ervare in alle aspekte van televisie, vanaf speel voor die kameras, regisseurswerk en vervaardiging tot skryf vir die televisie en films. Sy het reeds die ontwikkeling, vervaardiging, uitsaai en verspreiding van meer as dertig plaaslike televisiereekse, twintig vollengte films, sestig kortfilms en vier internasionale medevervaardigde produksies behartig. Dit sluit die films in <em>Vir die Vo\u00ebls<\/em> en <em>Leading Lady<\/em> asook die TV-reekse <em>Getroud met Rugby<\/em> en <em>Sterlopers<\/em>.\r\n\r\nTina geniet dit om jong filmmakers te mentor, sy het \u0149 grondige kennis van die plaaslike mark en sy leef daarvoor om eerlike, kragtige en oorspronklike Suid-Afrikaanse stories wat oor grense strek, te vertel.\r\n\r\n(Tina Kurger is ook betrokke by die <a href=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/af\/residensies\/#X-Wild-Projek-Stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-Wild-projek<\/a>.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3>X-Wild-projek<\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beaunella Khumalo<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.4629%;\"><img class=\"wp-image-25053 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Beaunella Khumalo\" width=\"293\" height=\"293\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.5371%;\">Beaunella Khumalo het \u2019n BA Honneurs in Film- en Televisiestudies met ervaring oor verskeie produksies soos Cobrizi, Mej SA en die SAFTA's. Sy het oor verskeie departemente gewerk, insluitend skryf, produksie, uitrusting, kunsregie, rolverdeling en draaiboekkontinu\u00efteit, maar het uiteindelik besluit om te fokus op die ontwikkeling van haar vaardighede in produksie en draaiboekskryf.\r\n\r\nKhumalo geniet dit om oor verskillende mediums te werk en haarself uit te daag met rolle buite haar gemaksone, insluitend videografie en redigering. Kreatiwiteit staan \u200b\u200bsentraal in wie sy is; Beaunella Khumalo word gedryf deur \u2019n voortdurende begeerte om haar handwerk te leer, te groei en te verfyn.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Bloukraan-boekeprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nompumelelo Sokoyi<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.6633%;\"><img class=\"wp-image-24899  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.3367%;\">Nompumelelo Sandra Sokoyi is in Pearston gebore en het aan die Imizamoyethu Sekond\u00eare Skool in George gematrikuleer. Nompumelelo is \u2019n motiveringspreker, \u2019n leier in haar gemeenskap en kerk en is ook aktief betrokke by baie gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojekte. Sy is passievol oor bal- en tradisionele dans en sy leef haar in in die dramaw\u00eareld en die stories wat sy vertel.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni is \u2019n skrywer en politieke kommentator wat in Kaapstad woon. Hy ontvang die Universiteit van Johannesburg se Debuutprys vir sy debuutroman, <em>The broken river tent<\/em>, wat in 2019 gepubliseer is. Sy tweede roman,\u00a0<em>The wanderers<\/em>, is in 2021 gepubliseer.\r\n\r\nHy is die hoofnavorser vir die <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/who-was-nojoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/a> wat in samewerking met die KwaNojoli Museum onderneem word.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Argivaris<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.9639%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.0361%;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman het twee dekades terug eintlik per toeval argivaris geword. Hy het sy ervaring in die geheimenisse van die argiveringsproses en -bestuur opgedoen by die Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenisargief (SAHA) en by Geskiedkundige Dokumente van Wits Universiteit voordat hy hom in Januarie 2007 by die Manuskrip- en Argiefafdeling (nou Spesiale Versamelings) van die UK-biblioteke aangesluit het tot met sy vroe\u00eb aftrede in Oktober 2018. Hy het \u2019n honneursgraad in argiefstudies by Unisa verwerf en ook onlangs sy meestersgraad in geskiedenis aan die UWK voltooi.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Paulet Huis-sjef<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilbert van Zyl<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Gilbert van Zyl is die sjef wat ons skrywers bederf met sy disse wat hy met sy groot koshart in oorvloed bedien. Gilbert is oorspronklik van Velddrif aan die Weskus, maar het vir jare lank gewerk by Queen\u2019s-kollege in Queenstown, voordat hy na KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos) verhuis het. Buiten sy werk by die Stigting, het hy sy eie spysenieringsbesigheid.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n&nbsp;"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":2,"featured_media":44,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_en_post_content":"<h3><strong>Founding Member<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Phoebe Gerwel<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100.601%; height: 185px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.0796%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"Phoebe Gerwel\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.9204%; height: 24px;\">Phoebe Gerwel, the widow of Professor Jakes Gerwel, is the founder member of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation. She obtained her degree in Social Work at the University of the Western Cape. Due to the executive role Professor Gerwel played in the establishment of the Suidoosterfees, Phoebe has been honoured as the Patron of the Suidoosterfees.\r\n\r\nPhoebe has donated <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/about-paulet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paulet House<\/a>, the beloved retreat in KwaNojoli (Somerset East) of her husband Professor Jakes Gerwel, to the Jakes Gerwel Foundation. She has an active role in the Suidoosterfees, the Jakes Gerwel Family Trust and the Jakes Gerwel Foundation.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Board of Trustees<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Figaji (Chairperson)<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 99.5992%; height: 164px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.5835%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"Brian Figaji\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.4165%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof Brian Figaji, Chairperson of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation, is a well-known businessman, academic and social activist in South Africa. He has a long history with the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) having served as Vice-Chancellor of Peninsula Technikon from 1995 to 2004, guiding the university before its merger into the newly formed CPUT in 2005. He was also appointed as the new chancellor of CPUT in 2025.<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mustaq Enus-Brey<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.2605%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"Mustaq Enus-Brey\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.7395%;\">Mustaq Brey is CEO of Brimstone Investment Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1995. With his vast business and governance experience Mustaq currently serves as non-executive chairman of Oceana Group Ltd and chairman of International Frontier Technologies SOC Ltd. He serves as a director on the boards of Equites Property Fund, reinsurer AON Re SA and property group FPG Property Fund. Mustaq is a trustee of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. He serves as a trustee of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and is the chairman of the Groote Schuur Hospital Trust. He has been integral to the startup of many NGO\u2019s and is the founder of the Saabri &amp; Ashrafi Relief Fund.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Annari van der Merwe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.2605%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"Annari van der Merwe\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.7395%;\">Annari van der Merwe started her publishing career as head of the department of children\u2019s and youth literature at Tafelberg Publishers in 1978 and stepped down as director of Random House South Africa in 2008. She would break ground by establishing Kwela Books for Naspers and by founding the imprint Umuzi for Random House. She also lectured from 1978 to the mid-1980s in the Afrikaans Department of the University of the Western Cape.\r\n\r\nAnnari is now a full-time painter.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Mfundo Nkuhulu\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu served as managing director at Nedbank Africa, before becoming the chief operating officer and executive director at the Nedbank Group Limited and at Nedbank Corporate Bank in 2015.\r\n\r\nPrior to his involvement at Nedbank, Mfundo was the general manager of strategy and planning at the South African Revenue Services (SARS) and was responsible for the New Partnership for Africa\u2019s Development (NEPAD) during his service in the Department of Trade and Industry.\r\n\r\nMfundo is the author of many articles on economic relations as well as on economic integration in Southern Africa.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wilmot James<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.6613%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Wilmot James \" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.3387%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wilmot James is respected worldwide as an intellectual leader on the forefront of planetary threat and pandemic response, biosecurity and biotechnology governance, public and global health as well as the non-proliferation of nuclear arms. He holds the position of Professor of Practice in Health Policy, Services and Practice at Brown University and is a senior advisor for pandemics and global health security at their School of Public Health. At the same time, he holds an honorary professorship in public health at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is also the author and editor of an impressive list of articles and books, including <em>Vital signs: Health security in South Africa<\/em> (2020) and <em>Nelson Mandela in his own words<\/em> (2003).<\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Goolam Aboobaker<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.6613%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker.jpg\" alt=\"Goolam Aboobaker\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.3387%;\">Goolam Aboobaker worked as a medical physicist before becoming special assistant to Jakes Gerwel at the University of the Western Cape in 1988. He was appointed Director of Cabinet Research in the late President Nelson Mandela\u2019s office in 1995 and in 1997 Chief Director of Economic Development in the policy unit of the office of the deputy president. After his tenure as the senior advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Goolam was appointed Deputy Director-General in the Ministry of Finance.\r\n\r\nGoolam was a founding member of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Durban and was also involved in the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF). Goolam\u2019s involvement with the development agency Kagiso Trust stretches back to 1987.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Executive Director<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Theo Kemp<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 280px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 280px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.9619%; height: 280px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"Theo Kemp\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.0381%; height: 280px;\">Theo Kemp obtained his master\u2019s degree in creative writing at Stellenbosch University. He has been involved with various projects in the arts before his role as, among others, project manager of the Woordfees, advertising coordinator at NB Publishers, programme manager at the KKNK as well as at the Vrystaat Literature Festival and as executive director of the Breytenbach Centre in Wellington.\r\n\r\nTheo is also the author of three novels, <em>Skool<\/em>, <em>Strafjaart<\/em> and <em>Klein Konings<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Bosberg Book Writing Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fourie Botha<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.4629%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha.jpg\" alt=\"Fourie Botha\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.5371%;\">After twenty years spent behind an editor\u2019s desk in publisher offices, and two years as a literary agent, Fourie Botha now works as a freelance editor and editorial consultant.\r\n\r\nFourie himself is also a poet and has published three collections of poetry, <em>Donkerkamer<\/em>, <em>Krap uit die see<\/em>, and <em>Kolam<\/em>. His debut collection was nominated for the Ingrid Jonker prize.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Angela Briggs<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 280px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 280px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.6633%; height: 280px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"Angela Briggs\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.3367%; height: 280px;\">Angela Briggs has worked in the publishing industry for 25 years. Besides freelancing as writer and editor, she also has experience of the full-time side of publishing.\r\n\r\nShe is also currently busy with her own writing project in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artworkarchive.com\/profile\/angela-briggs\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, where she brings her love of South African books together with another passion of hers: art.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sifiso Mzobe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24008\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300.webp\" alt=\"Sifiso Mzobe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Sifiso Mzobe is a celebrated South African author from Umlazi township in Durban. His debut novel, <em>Young Blood<\/em>, earned widespread acclaim and won several prestigious awards, including the 2011 Herman Charles Bosman Award and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. His second book, <em>Searching for Simphiwe<\/em>, is a collection of short stories rooted in the life and rhythms of Umlazi.\r\n\r\nAlongside his literary work, Mzobe continues to contribute as a journalist for a community newspaper.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.7635%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.2365%;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh has been working in publishing since 1990. Besides text editing, Suzette has also made her mark in manuscript assessment and development, translation, proofreading, project management, self-publications, book and film reviews (<em>LitNet<\/em>, <em>Die Burger<\/em>, kykNET\u2019s Dagbreek) as well as interviewing writers (RSG\u2019s Skrywers en Boeke). She also acts as mentor for text editors and as presenter at editing workshops.\r\n\r\nShe is the co-compiler of <em>Nuwe Kinderverseboek<\/em>, <em>Rympies vir Pikkies en Peuters<\/em>, <em>Rympies vir Kleintjies en Kleuters<\/em>, <em>Nuwe Stories 1, 2 &amp; 3<\/em> and the <em>US Woordfeesbundels<\/em> from 2016 to 2019.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Longhope TV Writing Mentor<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tina Kruger<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 32.0641%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-14484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Tina Kruger\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.9359%;\">Tina Kruger has experience in all aspects of television, from acting, directing and production through to screenwriting. She\u00a0has supervised the development, production, broadcasting and distribution of over thirty local television series, twenty feature films, sixty short films and four international co-productions. These include the films <em>Vir die Vo\u00ebls<\/em> and <em>Leading Lady<\/em> as well as the TV series <em>Getroud met Rugby<\/em> and <em>Sterlopers<\/em>.\r\n\r\nTina takes pleasure in mentoring young filmmakers, has a thorough understanding of the local market and lives for telling heartfelt, powerful and authentic South African stories that cross boundaries.\r\n\r\n(Tina Kurger is also involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/residencies\/#X-WildProject\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-Wild Project<\/a>.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>NATi Rising Stars Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rafiek Mammon<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 32.5651%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Rafiek Mammon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.4349%;\">Fafiek Mammon is a celebrated, award-winning playwright and director. His first play, \u2018Seashells\u2019 received a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival (NAF) in Grahamstown in 2012. His second play, \u2018The Garage Sale\u2019 ran to critical acclaim as the opening production of Artscape\u2019s 10th annual Festival of New Writing in 2014. He directed the play \u2018Syria?\u2019 which also won a Standard Bank Ovation Award in 2017 at the NAF in Grahamstown.\r\n\r\nHe is presently a freelance lecturer, playwright, theatre maker, Arts Festival judge, editor, Arts journalist and columnist.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oscar Petersen<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 32.4649%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-20866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he-.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Petersen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.5351%; height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Oscar Petersen\u2019s career spans over more than 30 years. Although trained as an actor at the University of Cape Town, Oscar\u2019s abilities encompass teaching, writing and dancing. His stage successes <\/span><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Meet Joe Barber<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Joe Barber and Boeta Gamat Too<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Joe Barber 4 The People<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">, <\/span><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Joe Barber 5 School Cuts<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\"> and <\/span><em style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">Suip!<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\"> have put him firmly on the map as one of Cape Town\u2019s leading writing and performing talents.<\/span>\r\n\r\nOscar has also worked as a teacher at the Drama Department at the University of Cape Town and at Stellenbosch University.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3>X-Wild Project<\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beaunella Khumalo<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 32.4649%;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25053\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Beaunella Khumalo\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.5351%;\">Beaunella Khumalo holds a BA Honours in Film and Television Studies with experience across multiple productions such as Cobrizi, Miss SA, and the SAFTAs. She has worked across various departments including writing, producing, wardrobe, art direction, casting, and script continuity, but ultimately decided to focus on developing her skills in producing and scriptwriting.\r\n\r\nKhumalo enjoys working across different mediums and challenging herself with roles outside her comfort zone, including videography and editing. Creativity is central to who she is; Beaunella Khumalo is driven by a continuous desire to learn, grow, and refine her craft.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Blue Crane Book Project<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nompumelelo Sokoyi<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 32.6653%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Nompumelelo Sokoyi\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.3347%;\">Nompumelelo Sandra Sokoyi was born in Pearston and matriculated at the Imizamoyethu Secondary School in George. Nompumelelo is a motivational speaker, a leader in her community and church and she is involved in many community development projects. She has a passion for traditional and ballroom dancing and loves the world of drama and storytelling.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>KwaNojoli Research Project<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 33.0661%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Mphuthumi Ntabeni\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 66.9339%;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni is a writer and political commentator who lives in Cape Town. His debut novel,\u00a0<em>The Broken River Tent<\/em>, was published in 2019 and won the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize. His second novel,\u00a0<em>The Wanderers<\/em>, was published in 2021.\r\n\r\nHe is the main researcher of <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/who-was-nojoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the KwaNojoli Research Project<\/a>, presented in partnership with the KwaNojoli Museum.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Archivist<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 33.3667%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"Andre Landman\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 66.6333%;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman became an archivist quite by accident about two decades ago. He cut his teeth in the secretive world of archive processing and management at the South African History Archives (SAHA) and at Historical Papers of Wits University before joining the Manuscripts and Archives Department (now Special Collections) of UCT Libraries in January 2007 up until his early retirement in October 2018. He obtained an honours degree in archival science at Unisa and recently completed his master\u2019s degree in history at UWC.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Paulet House Chef<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilbert van Zyl<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 33.3667%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"Gilbert van Zyl\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 66.6333%;\">Gilbert van Zyl is the chef who treats our writers with his love for food, in abundance. Gilbert hails from Velddrif on the West Coast, but worked for years at Queen\u2019s College in Queenstown, before he moved to KwaNojoli (Somerset East). Except for his involvement with the Foundation, he owns his own catering business.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","_en_post_name":"who-we-are","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"Who we are","_af_post_content":"<h3><strong>Stigterslid<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100.1%; height: 56px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 28.8789%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Phoebe-Gerwel-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 71.1211%;\">Phoeb\u00e9 Gerwel, die weduwee van professor Jakes Gerwel, is die stigterslid van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy studeer Maatskaplike Werk aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland. As gevol van die uitvoerende rol wat professor Gerwel gespeel het in die totstandkoming van die Suidoosterfees in Kaapstad, word Phoeb\u00e9 vereer as beskermvrou van hierdie fees.\r\n\r\nPhoeb\u00e9 skenk na die dood van haar man, sy geliefde <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/about-paulet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paulet Huis<\/a> in KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos), aan die Jakes Gerwel Stigting. Sy speel \u2019n aktiewe rol in die Suidoosterfees, die Jakes Gerwel Familie Trust en die Jakes Gerwel Stigting.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Trustees<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian Figaji (Voorsitter)<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.2585%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Brian-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.7415%;\">Prof Brian Figaji, Voorsitter van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, is \u2019n bekende sakeman, akademikus en sosiale aktivis in Suid-Afrika. Hy het \u2019n lang geskiedenis met die Kaapse Skiereiland-Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) wat vanaf 1995 tot 2004 as Visekanselier van Skiereiland Technikon gedien het, wat die universiteit gelei het voor sy samesmelting in die nuutgestigte CPUT in 2005. Hy is ook in 2025 as die nuwe kanselier van CPUT aangestel.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mustaq Enus-Brey<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.8597%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mustaq-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.1403%; height: 24px;\">Mustaq Brey is die HUB van Brimstone Versekeringskorporasie, \u2019n maatskappy waarvan hy in 1995 medestigter was. Met behulp van sy besigheids- en bestuurservaring hy dien tans as nie-uitvoerende voorsitter van Oceana Group Ltd en voorsitter van International Frontier Technologies SOC Ltd. Hy dien ook as \u2019n direkteur op die direksies van Equites Property Fund, herversekeraar AON Re SA en eiendomsgroep FPG Property Fund. Mustaq is \u2019n trustee van die Mandela Rhodes-stigting. Hy dien as \u2019n trustee van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en is die voorsitter van die Groote Schuur Hospitaaltrust. Hy was \u2019n integrale deel van die begin van baie NRO\u2019s en is die stigter van die Saabri &amp; Ashrafi Relief Fund.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Annari van der Merwe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 29.9599%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Annari-van-der-Merwe-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 70.0401%;\">Annari van der Merwe het haar uitgewersloopbaan in 1978 by Tafelberg Uitgewers begin as hoof van die kinder- en jeugboekafdeling en in 2008 afgesluit as uitgewershoof van Random House Suid-Afrika. Sy het baanbrekerswerk gedoen met die vestiging van Kwela Boeke vir Naspers en met die stigting van die druknaam Umuzi vir Random House. Sy het ook van 1987 tot in die middel 1980\u2019s aan die Departement Afrikaans van die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap klasgegee.\r\n\r\nAnnari skilder nou voltyds.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mfundo-Nkuhulu-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Mfundo Nkuhlu het as besturende direkteur by Nedbank Afrika gedien en het in 2015 hoofbestuursbeampte en uitvoerende direkteur by die Nedbank Groep Beperk en by Nedbank Korporatiewe Bank geword.\r\n\r\nVoor sy betrokkenheid by Nedbank was Mfundo die algemene bestuurder van strategie en beplanning by die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens (SAID) en hy was verder verantwoordelik vir die Nuwe Vennootskap vir Afrika se ontwikkeling (NEPAD) tydens sy tydperk by die Departement van Handel en Nywerheid.\r\n\r\nMfundo is die outeur van menige artikel oor ekonomiese betrekkinge asook oor ekonomiese integrasie in Suider-Afrika.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Wilmot James<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24892 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wilmot-James-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Wilmot James word w\u00eareldwyd gerespekteer as \u2019n intellektuele leier aan die spits van planet\u00eare-bedreigings- en pandemierespons, die bestuur van biosekuriteit en -tegnologie, openbare en w\u00eareldgesondheid asook die nie-proliferasie van kernkragwapens. Hy vul tans die posisie van Professor van Praktyk in Gesondheidsbeleid, -dienste en -praktyk by Brown Universiteit en is \u2019n senior adviseur vir pandemies en w\u00eareldgesondheidsekerheid by hul Skool vir Openbare Gesondheid. Terselfdertyd is hy ook \u2019n ereprofessor in openbare gesondheid by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand (Wits).\r\n\r\nHy is die outeur en redakteur van \u2019n indrukwekkende lys artikels en boeke, insluitend <em>Vital signs: Health security in South Africa<\/em> (2020) en <em>Nelson Mandela in his own words<\/em> (2003). Die lekkerste werk wat hy nog ooit gehad het, s\u00ea hy, was di\u00e9 van Voorsitter van die Trusteeraad van die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes!<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Goolam Aboobaker<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.3607%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GoolamAboobaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.6393%;\">Goolam Aboobaker het as mediese fisikus gewerk voordat hy in 1988 Jakes Gerwel se spesiale assistent by die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap geword het. In 1995 is Goolam aangestel as Direkteur van Kabinetnavorsing in die kantoor van President Nelson Mandela en in 1997 as Hoofdirekteur van Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling in die beleidseenheid van die kantore van die adjunkpresident. Na sy termyn as senior raadgewer by die Internasionale Monet\u00eare Fonds (IMF), is Goolam aangestel as Adjunkdirekteur-Generaal van Finansies.\r\n\r\nGoolam was \u2019n stigterslid van die Menseregtekommissie (MRK) in Durban en was ook betrokke by die stigting van die Verenigde Demokratiese Front (VDF). Goolam se betrokkenheid by die ontwikkelingsorganisasie Kagiso Trust strek terug tot in 1987.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Uitvoerende Direkteur<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Theo Kemp<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.461%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Theo-Kemp-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.539%;\">Theo Kemp het sy meestersgraad in kreatiewe skryfwerk aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch behaal. Hy was voorheen betrokke by verskeie projekte in die kunste in sy rol as, onder meer, projekbestuurder van die Woordfees, reklameko\u00f6rdineerder by NB-uitgewers, programbestuurder van die KKNK asook die Vrystaat Literatuurfees en as uitvoerende bestuurder van die Breytenbach Sentrum op Wellington.\r\n\r\nTheo is die skrywer van drie romans \u2013 <em>Skool,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Strafjaart <\/em>en <em>Kein Konings<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Bosberg-boekskryf Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fourie Botha<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.7615%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-8747 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/fouriebotha.jpg\" alt=\"Fourie Botha\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.2385%;\">N\u00e1 twintig jaar agter \u2019n redakteur se lessenaar in uitgewerskantore, en twee jaar as liter\u00eare agent, werk Fourie Botha nou as \u2019n vryskutredakteur en redaksionele konsultant.\r\n\r\nFourie is self ook \u2019n digter en het drie digbundels gepubliseer, <em>Donkerkamer<\/em>, <em>Krap uit die see<\/em> en <em>Kolam<\/em>. Sy debuutbundel is genomineer vir die Ingrid Jonker-prys.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Angela Briggs<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.5611%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela-Briggs-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.4389%;\">Angela Briggs het vir 25 jaar in die uitgewersbedryf gewerk. Naas haar vryskutwerk as skrywer en redigeerder, het sy ook ondervinding van die voltydse kant van die uitgewersbedryf.\r\n\r\nSy is ook tans besig met haar eie skryfprojek in die vorm van \u2019n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artworkarchive.com\/profile\/angela-briggs\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, waar sy haar liefde vir Suid-Afrikaanse boeke saambring met nog \u2019n passie van haar: kuns.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sifiso Mzobe<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.6613%;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24008\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sifiso-Nzobe_300.webp\" alt=\"Sifiso Mzobe\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.3387%;\">Sifiso Mzobe is \u2019n gevierde Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer uit die Umlazi-township in Durban. Na sy opleiding aan die St Francis Kollege, studeer hy joernalistiek by Damlin. Sy debuutroman, <em>Young Blood<\/em>, het wye lof ontvang en verskeie gesogte toekennings gewen, insluitend die Herman Charles Bosman-prys en die Wole Soyinka-prys vir Letterkunde in Afrika. Sy tweede boek, <em>Searching for Simphiwe<\/em>, is \u2019n versameling kortverhale wat diep gewortel is in die lewe en ritmes van Umlazi. Benewens sy liter\u00eare werk, is Mzobe \u2019n joernalis by \u2019n gemeenskapskoerant.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 30.5612%; height: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zuzette-Profile-foto.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 69.4388%; height: 24px;\">Suzette Kotz\u00e9-Myburgh werk sedert 1990 in die uitgewersbedryf en vir die laaste een-en-twintig jaar is dit op \u2019n vryskutbasis. Suzette is \u2019n vaardige taalgebruiker en, benewens die teksredigering wat sy doen, het sy ook die volgende op haar kerfstok: manuskripkeuring en -ontwikkeling, vertaal- en proefleeswerk, projekbestuur en selfpublikasies, boek- en filmresensies (<em>LitNet<\/em>, <em>Die Burger<\/em>, kykNET se Dagbreek) asook skrywersonderhoude (RSG se Skrywers en Boeke). Sy tree verder op as mentor vir teksredakteurs en as aanbieder van redigeringslypskole.\r\n\r\nSy is die medesamesteller van <em>Nuwe Kinderverseboek, Rympies vir Pikkies en Peuters, Rympies vir Kleintjies en Kleuters,<\/em> <em>Nuwe Stories 1, 2 <\/em><em>&amp;<\/em><em> 3 <\/em>en die<em> US Woordfeesbundels <\/em>vanaf 2016 tot 2019.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>NATi Jong Sterre Mentors<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Rafiek Mammon<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.0621%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rafiek-Mammon-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.9379%;\">Fafiek Mammon is \u2019n gevierde, bekroonde dramaturg en regisseur. Sy eerste toneelstuk, \u2018Seashells\u2019 in 2012 \u2019n Ovation-toekenning by die Grahamstad Nasionale Kunstefees verower. Sy tweede toneelstuk, 'The Garage Sale', het groot lof gekry as die openingsproduksie van Kunstekaap se 10de jaarlikse Fees van Nuwe Skryfwerk in 2014. Hy was die regisseer van die toneelstuk 'Syria?' wat ook \u2019n Standard Bank Ovation-toekenning in 2017 by die NAF in Grahamstad gewen het.\r\n\r\nHy is tans \u2019n vryskutdosent, dramaturg, teatermaker, Kunstefeesbeoordelaar, redakteur, Kunsjoernalis en rubriekskrywer.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oscar Petersen<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.1624%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-20866 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Oscar-Petersen-admits-that-all-his-interests-in-life-his-favourite-characters-and-his-unique-sense-of-humour-were-shaped-in-Ocean-View-near-Cape-Town-where-he-grew-up.-Looking-back-he-.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Petersen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.8376%;\">Oscar Petersen se teaterloopbaan al langer as 30 jaar. Hy is as akteur aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad opgelei, maar sy talente sluit ook onderrig, draaiboekskryf en dans in. Danksy verhoogsuksesse soos <em>Meet Joe Barber<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber and Boeta Gamat Too<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 4 The People<\/em>, <em>Joe Barber 5 School Cuts<\/em> en <em>Suip!<\/em> word hy as een van Kaapstad se voorste draaiboekskrywers en akteurs gereken.\r\n\r\nOscar het ook by die Dramadepartement van die Universiteit van Kaapstad en by Universiteit Stellenbosch klasgegee.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Longhope TV-skryf Mentor<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tina Kruger<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.3627%;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-14484 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tina-Kruger-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Tina Kruger\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.6373%;\">Tina Kruger is ervare in alle aspekte van televisie, vanaf speel voor die kameras, regisseurswerk en vervaardiging tot skryf vir die televisie en films. Sy het reeds die ontwikkeling, vervaardiging, uitsaai en verspreiding van meer as dertig plaaslike televisiereekse, twintig vollengte films, sestig kortfilms en vier internasionale medevervaardigde produksies behartig. Dit sluit die films in <em>Vir die Vo\u00ebls<\/em> en <em>Leading Lady<\/em> asook die TV-reekse <em>Getroud met Rugby<\/em> en <em>Sterlopers<\/em>.\r\n\r\nTina geniet dit om jong filmmakers te mentor, sy het \u0149 grondige kennis van die plaaslike mark en sy leef daarvoor om eerlike, kragtige en oorspronklike Suid-Afrikaanse stories wat oor grense strek, te vertel.\r\n\r\n(Tina Kurger is ook betrokke by die <a href=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/af\/residensies\/#X-Wild-Projek-Stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X-Wild-projek<\/a>.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3>X-Wild-projek<\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beaunella Khumalo<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.4629%;\"><img class=\"wp-image-25053 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MTF-Booth-Grad-65-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Beaunella Khumalo\" width=\"293\" height=\"293\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.5371%;\">Beaunella Khumalo het \u2019n BA Honneurs in Film- en Televisiestudies met ervaring oor verskeie produksies soos Cobrizi, Mej SA en die SAFTA's. Sy het oor verskeie departemente gewerk, insluitend skryf, produksie, uitrusting, kunsregie, rolverdeling en draaiboekkontinu\u00efteit, maar het uiteindelik besluit om te fokus op die ontwikkeling van haar vaardighede in produksie en draaiboekskryf.\r\n\r\nKhumalo geniet dit om oor verskillende mediums te werk en haarself uit te daag met rolle buite haar gemaksone, insluitend videografie en redigering. Kreatiwiteit staan \u200b\u200bsentraal in wie sy is; Beaunella Khumalo word gedryf deur \u2019n voortdurende begeerte om haar handwerk te leer, te groei en te verfyn.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Bloukraan-boekeprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nompumelelo Sokoyi<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.6633%;\"><img class=\"wp-image-24899  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nompumelelo-Sokoyi-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.3367%;\">Nompumelelo Sandra Sokoyi is in Pearston gebore en het aan die Imizamoyethu Sekond\u00eare Skool in George gematrikuleer. Nompumelelo is \u2019n motiveringspreker, \u2019n leier in haar gemeenskap en kerk en is ook aktief betrokke by baie gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojekte. Sy is passievol oor bal- en tradisionele dans en sy leef haar in in die dramaw\u00eareld en die stories wat sy vertel.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24900 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mphuthumi-Ntabeni-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Mphuthumi Ntabeni is \u2019n skrywer en politieke kommentator wat in Kaapstad woon. Hy ontvang die Universiteit van Johannesburg se Debuutprys vir sy debuutroman, <em>The broken river tent<\/em>, wat in 2019 gepubliseer is. Sy tweede roman,\u00a0<em>The wanderers<\/em>, is in 2021 gepubliseer.\r\n\r\nHy is die hoofnavorser vir die <a href=\"https:\/\/paulethousestories.jgf.org.za\/who-was-nojoli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KwaNojoli-navorsingsprojek<\/a> wat in samewerking met die KwaNojoli Museum onderneem word.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Argivaris<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.9639%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Andre-Landman-Profile-foto-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.0361%;\">Andr\u00e9 Landman het twee dekades terug eintlik per toeval argivaris geword. Hy het sy ervaring in die geheimenisse van die argiveringsproses en -bestuur opgedoen by die Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenisargief (SAHA) en by Geskiedkundige Dokumente van Wits Universiteit voordat hy hom in Januarie 2007 by die Manuskrip- en Argiefafdeling (nou Spesiale Versamelings) van die UK-biblioteke aangesluit het tot met sy vroe\u00eb aftrede in Oktober 2018. Hy het \u2019n honneursgraad in argiefstudies by Unisa verwerf en ook onlangs sy meestersgraad in geskiedenis aan die UWK voltooi.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3><strong>Paulet Huis-sjef<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Gilbert van Zyl<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 31.8637%;\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-24902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jgf.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert-van-Zyl-Profile-foto-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 68.1363%;\">Gilbert van Zyl is die sjef wat ons skrywers bederf met sy disse wat hy met sy groot koshart in oorvloed bedien. Gilbert is oorspronklik van Velddrif aan die Weskus, maar het vir jare lank gewerk by Queen\u2019s-kollege in Queenstown, voordat hy na KwaNojoli (Somerset-Oos) verhuis het. 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