Groote Schuur Board Members
Members of the Board are drawn from the hospital leadership and staff; the university’s Faculty of Health Sciences as its academic partner; and the community at large which it serves.
In addition, persons with expertise may be nominated by peers and appointed by the Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape.
- Dr S de Vries – Head of Institution
- Mr H Kajie – Chair
- Rev M Magadla – Vice-Chair
- Mrs A Bezuidenhout
- Prof G Fieggen
- Mrs N Mia
- Dr I Ntatamala
- Dr J Werner
- Vera Hlayisi
- Mr M Petersen
- Mr L Naidoo
- Mr L Hlakudi
- Mr N Pangarker
Activities
- Support the hospital in all its spheres
- Support patients with transport costs, personal items and food parcels where appropriate
- Oversee volunteers who contribute to the operations of the Facility Board
- Manage on site income generating projects such as parking, food outlets, used book sales and hairdresser
- Manage donations and bequests
Board Members
Mr. Hassen Kajie is a Chartered Accountant in private practice with 36 years’ experience in the profession. He is a partner at a national firm of Chartered Accountants with international affiliations. He completed all his university studies part time and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983.
He is 64 years old, married, with one daughter and three grandchildren.
He appreciates the outdoors and enjoys walking, hiking and cycling.
His passion is providing a good service to his clients and to offer good advice to clients, friends and family so that they may benefit from his expertise in the field and offers them sound advice on many occasion. Mr. Kajie finds tremendous fulfillment in serving the community, assisting people in difficulty and solving their problems.
Reverend Mzwabantu Magadla is an Anglican priest serving the parish of Claremont, St Matthew’s for the past four years.
Reverend Magadla has served as a Board member for many organisations including You and Your Money, Fikelela AIDS Ministry, etc. He is currently serving as a Board member of The Warehouse Trust, Groote Schuur Hospital Facility Board and Fikelela Children’s Centre (FYCC). He has served in many leadership capacities within the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) in the Diocese of Cape Town.
He holds degrees in Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Theology, National Diploma in Management and has completed advanced certificates and short courses in Management, Theology and facilitation.
Ms. Annelise Bezuidenhout is the Director Finance at Groote Schuur Hospital.
After completing her tertiary education, she worked as an article clerk, but decided to follow a teaching career. She taught Mathematics and Accounting to high school learners for almost 18 years and was Deputy Principal at Vredenburg High.
In 2000, she decided to pursue a career in the corporate world, holding various high level posts such as a Financial Accountant at Sea Harvest, a Commodity Specialist at Saldanha Steel, Accountant at Mykonos Casino and Financial Manager at Queens Casino. She was appointed Director of Finance at Groote Schuur Hospital in 2012.
Her passion in life is to travel and to see and experience the world.
Graham Fieggen grew up in the Eastern Cape, matriculating from Woodridge College. After graduating MBChB from UCT, with time on the SRC and an intercalated BSc(Med) en route, he stayed at Groote Schuur Hospital for Internship and then 6 months as a Trauma Unit SHO- the best job in the world for a junior doctor! This was followed by an MSc(Neuroscience) in London and General Practice on the Canadian prairies before returning to Cape Town to specialise in Neurosurgery.
Graham worked as a paediatric neurosurgeon at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital for 10 years before being appointed as the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Chair and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery. While at RCWMCH he worked closely with the Children’s Hospital Trust and returned to GSH convinced of the need for a similar Trust. His long term vision for developing neuroscience at UCT culminated in the Neuroscience Centre project on the Groote Schuur campus, which has been supported by philanthropic donors together with the Province and the University. He was appointed as Head of the Department of Surgery for 2017-2021 and currently serves as president of the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa (2018-2020).
His clinical and research interests span functional and paediatric neurosurgery and he has held various leadership positions including president of the International Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery, and he currently serves as president of the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa. Graham and Karen, a medical geneticist, are proud parents of Joshua and Liam, both students at UCT.
Mrs Mia is dedicated to the work of poverty alleviation among the underprivileged members of our society. She has served on various Boards and organizations with similar aims and objectives, such as the Hospital Welfare Board and the GF Jooste Facility Board.
She has championed and has been involved in the aid and relief programmes for these organisations and has a keen interest in the education and training committees.
Mrs Mia has a strong administrative background, having spent 15 years in the corporate banking sector. In addition to this, she also spent a number of years as an educator at Jamatul Nisa, where she taught Islamic Spiritualism and mental wellbeing.
Mrs Mia is dedicated to fulfilling her passion to uplift the impoverished in society
Dr. Itumeleng Ntatamala is a young and energetic medical graduate from the University of Cape Town and the recipient of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award through which he obtained a Masters Degree in Occupational Health from the University of Birmingham in 2016.
He also holds a Unisa Postgraduate Diploma in public health and an HIV Diploma from the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa.
He has worked as a rural doctor in Limpopo Province and is currently a registrar in Occupational Medicine, having practiced at the staff health clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and the Western Cape Provincial Department of Health.
He has a special interest in improving the working experience of all categories health care workers with the ultimate aim of improved and safe quality care for all patients accessing public health services.
Dr Jesse Werner graduated from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. Her experience as a medical practitioner in three provinces of South Africa has served as useful in her career.
After graduating from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business Associate in Management Programme, she went on to continuing public service as a Deputy Director in Infrastructure and technical management support in the Western Cape.
Dr Werner is currently a public health medicine registrar at the University of Cape Town. She is passionate about Health System’s strengthening, with a particular interest in the District Health System.
In her current position she has gained experience in Quality Assurance, Information Management as well as Programme Impact and Evaluation in the Western Cape Department of Health.
Vera Hlayisi is a multiple award-winning Audiology clinician, lecturer, researcher and health leader currently based at the University of Cape Town. As a clinician, Vera has vast experience in audiology across most sectors including rural public healthcare sector, corporate private, biotechnology field and is now in academia. As a lecturer and researcher, she is a published academic author in regional and international journals within her interest areas. Vera is passionate about healthcare leadership in her field and the broader context, to this end, she is serving in the executive board of the South African Association of Audiologists as well as the coordinator for the Person Centered Care South African Chapter for the Ida institute. Outside healthcare, Vera is passionate about youth empowerment to increase transformation and socioeconomic development in South Africa and Africa as a whole, she contributes to this as a director at an NGO Little Big Ideas.