Board Members

Patricia Dlamini (MBA) (PMD) (B.Com) F.Inst. D (IoDSA), has over 20 years’ experience in the development of entrepreneurship, regional innovation ecosystems and business incubation. She is a SETA accredited facilitator, business coach and seasoned socio-economic development practitioner that brings strong project management, fundraising, governance and strategy skills to the board of ASAP. 

Some of her accolades include the Minister’s Award Certificate of Honour at the SA Business Incubation Awards 2018 and the “Dignity as a Serving Sister of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John” bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II.

Mbali Thubisi is an actuary and works at Old Mutual. She has work experience in the life insurance industry. This includes: reinsurance and all areas of the individual risk product life cycle; exposure into the formulation, execution and management of corporate strategy; the delivery of regulatory requirements as a member of an enterprise risk management team; driving of risk and control projects in the operations area and the management of colleagues. She also serves as a trustee for the Roedean Trust.

holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town (South Africa). She has been working in the NPO sector since 2002 and has worked with very small community based organisations to large international organisations, ranging across various sectors from education, advocacy, health, and other social concerns. Michelle is the founder of Entrepreneur and Management Solutions, a consulting firm that provides strategic advisory to non-profits with a specific focus on sustainable income generation. Her skills include systems and process design, strategic financial oversight, financial integration into organisational processes, donor monitoring systems, accounting, and tax and legislative compliance.

has been a supporter of ASAP for many years and has accompanied Priscilla Higham on visits to Community Based Projects in the Eastern Cape.  She has  also been on the fund-raising committee in the UK and was elected as Chair of the Board of Trustees in July 2015. Sue is an award winning  writer and journalist and for 21 years was the Editor of House & Garden magazine. Through the magazine she spearheaded several fundraising campaigns for causes as diverse as Water Aid, The Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust, Maggie’s Cancer Care and the Millennium Seed Bank Appeal. As a grandmother herself she feels a particular affinity with the Grandmothers in South Africa who are caring for their orphaned grandchildren and other vulnerable children.

Sam Hoffman is a real estate development and finance professional in the United States. He works in Washington, DC and has extensive experience in capital strategy, balance sheet management, financial analysis, investment management, strategic planning, business forecasting, investor relations, and board reporting. Sam has worked for publicly traded and privately held institutions, and he has served in a volunteer capacity with his local United Way and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Sam is passionate about social impact, sustainability in the built environment, childhood education, mental health, improving outcomes for vulnerable populations, and promoting the self-sufficiency of community-based organizations.

Sam currently serves as a commissioner on the Historic Alexandria Resources Commission of Alexandria, Virginia. He received his B.A. from American University’s School of International Service and his M.B.A. from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Zita Lloyd has a MSc in Anthropology and Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a MSc in Psychotherapy. She spent many years working for the international organisation The ONE Campaign in various policy and campaigning roles, working successfully towards G7 governments implementing significant programmes to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa among other issues. Alongside this work, Zita has always been involved with fundraising events for small grassroots charities, cofounding ‘Clothesline’ in 2001 which put on a series of fashion shows to raise money for OVC in Kenya, and has been running the regular ‘London Lunch’ for ASAP since 2014.  Zita first visited one of ASAP’s early projects in 2003 and has been a supporter and involved with the organisation ever since.

Zita is based in London where she lives with her family and works as a psychotherapist.

Qaqamba has a keen interest in human rights having been a member of Amnesty International Southern Africa (AISA) at University.  She has also previously served as a non-executive director of AISA. She founded Effective Forces Consulting (Pty) Ltd and Moeletsi Attorneys Inc., bringing warmth and professionalism to human resources consulting and employment law. Qaqamba specializes in strategic advisory, litigation, disciplinary inquiries, etc. She is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and an experienced trainer and mediator. Qaqamba also holds a Master’s in Corporate Law.