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Our gold Team

gold-youth is served by an International Hub team based largely in our Cape Town office in South Africa with satellites in Johannesburg – South Africa, Harare – Zimbabwe, Lusaka – Zambia and Kigali – Rwanda. This Hub team is supported with field operations and partners across selected regions in South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.

Hub Team

Susannah Farr
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Desiré Luke
CHIEF PROGRAMME OPERATIONS OFFICER
Anine Pheiffer
HEAD OF FINANCE & GOVERNANCE
Sylvia Baguma
HEAD OF IMPACT MANAGEMENT & LEARNING
Jacqui Latimer
HEAD OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Thilda Nel
HEAD OF PEOPLE, CULTURE AND OFFICE
Owen Muzambi
HEAD OF gold GRADS AND MICROBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Nathalie Tedder
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST
Luleka Domo
FUNDRAISING MANAGER
Julia Benjamin
HEAD OF MARKETING & ADVOCACY
Paula Wallace-Pickering
PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
Renette Pickering
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Ashleigh Joseph
MICROBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Trevor Mubaiwa
INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY MANAGER
Nomandla Mkwananzi
QUALITY ASSURANCE & IMPACT MANAGER
Eric Mtimkulu
TRAINING & SUPPORT MANAGER
Alison Joseph
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Karabo Letsapa
FINANCE REPORTING MANAGER
Zanele Gqirana
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SPECIALIST
Luyanda Mbi
DONOR GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE MANAGER
Kampamba Malaila
STAKEHOLDER MOBILIZATION MANAGER
Franklin Pieterse
ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
Andrew Bennett
gold GRADS & CONNECTIONS MANAGER
Jamie Lee Egypt
BLENDED CAPACITY BUILDING SPECIALIST
Habinshuti Irankunda
INSTRUCTIONAL & DIGITAL DESIGN SPECIALIST
Charity Simelane
gold GRADS & CONNECTIONS COORDINATOR
Sadri Miller
FINANCE COORDINATOR
Alex Shema
MARKETING & ADVOCACY COORDINATOR
Dean Egypt
IST COORDINATOR
Bradley Trout
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Vimbai Jack
QUALITY ASSURANCE & IMPACT COORDINATOR
Lindelwa Jwara
TRAINING & SUPPORT COORDINATOR
Sharon Nkosi
FINANCE COORDINATOR
Zimasa Mthwa
FINANCE CLERK
Patrick Manzi
DATA ANALYST
Hlumela Makhwayiba
OFFICE MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR
Tracey Wilson
ENTERPRISE FINANCE SPECIALIST
Jack Tapfumaneyi
FOOD SYSTEM SPECIALIST
Harold Molepo
SYSTEMS SUPPORT SPECIALIST
Vususmuzi Mpofu
MARKETING & ADVOCACY INTERN

Board of Directors

Susannah Farr
International Board | CEO

Susannah is an Ashoka fellow and globalizer and 2016 Social Entrepreneur category winner in the Regional Business Women Achiever Awards. She is a visionary leader, committed to finding innovative solutions to address the youth education and unemployment crisis amongst the most vulnerable.

Sandile Swana
International Board | CHAIRPERSON

Sandile is the CEO of Africa Media Online. He completed a BComm at Wits University in Economics and Business Information Systems, a BComm. Honours in Logistics at UNISA, and holds an MBA from the University of Pretoria focusing on finance and strategy. He is a member of Institute of Information Technology Professionals of South Africa and the Institute of Risk Management of South Africa. He is also a trainer and lecturer across all spheres of the state and in major corporations. Sandile lectured at Wits Business School for 15 years with a focus on Risk and Governance. He is a governance and risk specialist consulted widely by the state, business and mass media on critical questions facing South Africa. Sandile is passionately committed to seeing the youth of Africa take the lead towards an ethical future for the continent.

Alicia Davids
International Board | Education Lead

Alicia has worked as an independent education practitioner for a number of years, contracting with tertiary institutions, NPOs and corporates in training and development with an emphasis on leadership development. Currently she serves as the CEO of the ASISA Academy. Alicia is a strategic thinker with a passion for empowerment through education.

Ayanda Moropane
International Board | People & HR Lead

Ayanda is a champion of developing talent and creating collaborative relationships to enable the gold vision and mission to reach youth across Africa. She is an HR Director with extensive multi-industry experience which has cultivated a global mindset. She is Founder of Mindz Connect, a Strategic HR Consultancy based in the UAE which focuses on Organizational Development and Learning and Development supporting start-ups and small businesses.

Andrew Stegmann
International Board | Enterprise Lead

Andrew is a director at the Relocation Africa Group: a company that provides relocation, immigration, research and remuneration services to expatriates relocating into Africa. He is also the MD of myresidence, a company providing serviced accommodation for executives across Africa. These companies are an expression of Andrew’s conviction to be part of the solution to the challenges facing Africa and making a difference.

Jolly Dusabe
Rwanda Board | Sustainability Lead

Jolly has extensive experience in project management and implementation, resource mobilization and utilization, working in national systems, agricultural research, working with farmers and youth; 7 years’ experience at a Senior government level, leading multi-donor and multi-million-dollar rural transformation projects in Rwanda. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University, with research focused on understanding pathways for smallholder agricultural development in Rwanda.

Chedza Moon Ntobedzi
Botswana Board | Legal Lead

Chedza is an alumnus of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. She is an attorney, conveyancer and notary public duly admitted to practice since 2016. Chedza graduated from the University of Botswana in October 2016 with her Bachelor of Laws degree and began her career in private practice. She was the youngest and one of two elected women on the Council of the Law Society of Botswana in 2018. She ran for elections as part of developing her corporate executive experience as well as her corporate social responsibility to society. The Law Society of Botswana is mandated to preserve and maintain the integrity of the legal profession as well as to uphold, defend and advance the rule of law through advocacy on legal matters of national interest. Chedza is passionate about community work, particularly empowering the youth and young women in the legal fraternity. Chedza is also a family woman; she is a wife and mother of three.

Wedzerai Chiyoka
Zimbabwe Board | Technical Programme Lead

Wedzerai is a Community Development consultant. She has proven NGO capacity-building competence and her achievements include programme management in national, regional, and international development agencies, such as Pact, VSO, AGRI-IQ and the FACT Consortium. Since 2008, Wedzerai has been engaged in technical assistance and advisory capacities, working as an independent development consultant for several agencies.

Nfwama Chisola Mfula
Zimbabwe Board | Finance and Investment lea

Nfwama Chisola Mfula is a finance professional with extensive experience in external audit, microfinance, business development, and commercial sales. With a strong background in financial oversight, risk assessment, and strategic growth, she has successfully led teams and managed resources to drive organizational success. Passionate about inclusive development, she has dedicated her career to improving living standards in Zambia—whether through entrepreneurship finance, small loans for education, or housing solutions. Her personal commitment to social impact extends to education, where she is not only championing a youth trajectory change in Africa through gold-youth, but she is the founding board member of a low-income school in a densely populated area of Lusaka, providing quality, affordable education and impacting local families.

Our Partners

Our Sustainability Partners

Alternative Prosperity Foundation, Edward and Catherine Wray Charitable Trust, Muthobi Foundation, Western Cape Department of Education, Old Mutual Foundation South Africa, Momentum Metropolitan Foundation, Astron Energy, Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies C/O Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), BTE Renewables, Identity Property Co (Pty) Ltd, IPIC Properties, True South Foundation Trust, and The South African College of Applied Psychology (SACAP)

Pro-bono Partners

Von Seidels, CBA printers, Europcar, Xneelo, Hogan Lovells, Bowmans, PwC, Ashoka ASPIRe Programme and Societal Platform, HLB Zambia

Government Partners

gold-youth collaborates with specific National and Provincial Departments and Ministries in our ongoing revision of gold Curricula, standards and materials as well as in the ground-up implementation of youth-led interventions at a district, provincial and country level. The gold Model is supportive of and addresses priorities highlighted in the various National Strategic Plans, Guidelines and Development Frameworks in South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.

Implementing Partners

gold Social Franchisees

Botswana:
BW JOBS 4 GRADUATES, Window of Hope, Valor Mental Foundation

Rwanda:
Aspire Debate Rwanda, Trinite pour le resilience integre Rwanda (TRI), Ni Nyampinga, Association des Guide du Rwanda, gold North, CPJSP KAMONYI, Rwanda Organization for Development Initiatives (RODI), vision Jeunesse Nouvelle, Youth for Girls Rights, APPE/ESAFF Rwanda, Rural Development Initiative, Help For Hopeless (H4H), Citizen Rights and Development (CRD), Association des Jeunes de St Charles Lwanga (AJECI), Youths Empowerment Scholars Initiative Rwanda (YESI Rwanda), Girls Leaders Forum (GLF), Hope for Life Association (HFLA)

South Africa:
Mpumalanga: Thembalethu Nkomazi, Faded Black Innovations

Kwazulu Natal: ISAAC, Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust

Western Cape: Family Transformation Centre (George), Boost Africa Foundation

Eastern Cape: I Protect Me

Northern Cape: Richtersveld Naledi Youth Service Centre, Ethembeni Community Centre 1

Gauteng: Bokamoso skills and aeaconomic Development Centre, Siyakholwa Development Foundation, Outreach Foundation

Zambia:
YMCA Ndola, YMCA Kitwe, YMCA Kabwe, YMCA Luanshya, Africa Education Programme

Zimbabwe:
Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe, Hope for a Child in Christ (HOCIC), YMCA Chegutu, Youth Advocates Zimbabwe

Uganda:
Cactus Community Foundation, Coburwas International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA)

Nigeria:
Children That Change The World

Kenya:
Lalmba

DRC:
Coburwas International Youth Organization to Transform Africa (CIYOTA)

 

 

gold Test and Reference Sites

Botswana: gold Molepolole cluster

Rwanda: gold Kigali cluster; gold North cluster

South Africa: gold Kraaifontein cluster; gold Paarl cluster; gold Masoyi cluster

Zambia: gold Chingola cluster

Zimbabwe: gold Bulawayo Metropolitan cluster

Wide Partners

South Africa:
Western Cape: Sakhisizwe

KwaZulu Natal: Crossroads, Jems Foundation

Eastern Cape: Imithayelanga Youth Development, I Protect Me

Mpumalanga: Touch A Million, Faded Black Innovation

Gauteng: Springs Christian Academy

Free State: I Destiny

Zambia: YMCA Lusaka

Botswana: Good Samaritan Association

Rwanda: Ingiro Ministry

Zimbabwe: Youth Aspire Development Trust