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Saki Macozoma
President : Business Leadership South Africa
Sakumzi (Saki) Macozoma, President of Business Leadership since January 2007, is chairman of financial institutions STANLIB and Andisa Capital, a director of the Standard Bank of South Africa , the Standard Group, the Liberty Group and Volkswagen SA. He is also a significant shareholder in and deputy chairman of Safika Holdings.
He got involved in the liberation struggle in the mid-1970s as an organiser for the South African Students Movement. From 1990 to 1992, he headed the Media Liaison Unit of the Department of Information and Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1991, he was elected to the ANC's most important body, the National Executive Committee, a position he still holds.
In 1997 he was appointed managing director of Transnet, the state-owned transport giant that controls South Africa 's railways, ports and national airline. Having turned years of losses into profits in 1998 and 1999, he left Transnet in February 2001 to concentrate on private business interests.
Mr Macozoma is co-chair of the Business Trust, Chairman of the Council on Higher Education and a member of the Board of Governors at Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand . He is the Chairman of the Kwazulu – Natal Philharmonic Orchestra and President of the Boy Scouts of South Africa.
He studied political science, economics and journalism at the University of South Africa and Boston University in the USA .
Derek Cooper
Chairman: Business Leadership South Africa
Derek Cooper, the chairman since February 2004, had a long and distinguished
career with Barlow Rand and its member companies. Following the
unbundling of that company he became Chairman of C. G. Smith, before
being appointed Chairman of Liberty Holdings and Liberty Group in 1999.
In 2001, Mr Cooper became Chairman of Standard Bank Group and The
Standard Bank of South Africa.
He is a Director and Trustee of the Business Trust and a Council member of the University of the Witwatersrand. Until November 2005, Mr Cooper served as a Vice President of Business Unity South Africa and Chairman of its Finance Committee. He is a past Council member of IMD (Lausanne) and the IBM Europe Advisory Board and has served on numerous company Boards in South Africa.
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