The Project Leaders:

Jakes Gerwel is Chancellor of Rhodes University, Honorary Professor of Humanities at the University of the Western Cape and Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria.  He is also the Chairman of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and a range of companies including Brimstone Investments and South African Airways.

Wilmot James is Chief Executive of the Africa Genome Education Institute, Honorary Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria.  He is also Chairman of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Director of Sanlam, Media24 and the Grape Co of Paarl, and Trustee of the Cape Times Bursary Trust and Ford Foundation of New York.