HSF Trustees

Kalim Rajab (Chairperson)

Kalim Rajab is a director of the New National Assurance Company, South Africa's largest empowered short-term insurer. He previously worked for De Beers in strategy and corporate finance. He was educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford, the latter as an Oppenheimer Scholar.

Cora Hoexter

Cora Hoexter is an academic who has published extensively in her two main research areas, administrative law and the judiciary. She is currently a part-time Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she teaches and supervises in the postgraduate programme.  She was the inaugural President of the Administrative Justice Association of South Africa and serves inter alia on the editorial board of Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law and the advisory board of the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Phila Zulu

Phila Zulu is a banking and finance lawyer. He was educated at Rhodes University, obtaining a BCom and LLB degree. After a decade as a lawyer in practice, including a stint at the London office of White & Case LLP, Phila is currently the Legal Director and Company Secretary for a leading international health and fitness company, where he also serves on the Executive Committee, Risk Committee, and the Social and Ethics Committee.

Daniel Jowell

Daniel Jowell is a barrister practising at Brick Court Chambers, London. He is the grandson of the late Helen Suzman.

Max Du Plessis

Max du Plessis is an advocate (Senior Counsel), honorary research fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, a senior research associate at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, and fellow at Chatham House, London. As an advocate in South Africa and associate tenant, Doughty Street Chambers, London, he has an extensive practice in public law, human rights and international law. He holds the degrees of B.Iuris (SA), LLB (Natal), LLM (Cambridge), and PhD (UKZN).

Palesa Morudu Rosenberg

Palesa, an incisive public commentator, is also director at Clarity Global Strategic Communications, with extensive experience designing communication strategies for South African and global audiences.

Nick Jonsson

Nick Jonsson is a Durban based entrepreneur and is the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Jonsson Workwear Group, southern Africa’s leading work apparel brand. Amongst other pursuits he is Chairman of the Board of Governors of St. Anne’s Diocesan College and also serves on the Board of Governors of Michaelhouse.