Academy of Science South Africa 2005/6 Annual Report

Short Bio of MembersASSAfleading participant in the 5-year international MilleniumEcosystem Assessment.■ Casper Schutte was Professor of Chemistry at the Universityof South Africa, and interim manager of the SouthAfrican Bioinformatics Initiative.■ J.R. ‘Bob’ Seretlo is Professor Emeritus of Physics of theUniversity of Fort Hare. He was Dean of the Faculty ofScience at the University of Fort Hare.■ Lawrence Vere Shannon is a retired Honorary Professorof Oceanography. He was Director of the South AfricanSea Fisheries Research Institute (now Marine and CoastalManagement).■ John Francis Sharpey-Schafer is a retired NuclearPhysicist attached to the Universities of Western Capeand Zululand. He was Director iThemba LABS.■ Olive Shisana is the President and CEO at the HumanScience Research Council. She was Executive Director ofthe Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health at the HSRC,Professor and Head of Department of Health SystemsManagement and Policy at MEDUNSA and DG of theDepartment of Health.■ Sibusiso Sibisi is CEO of the Council for Scientific andIndustrial Research. He was Executive Director (R&D)at Plessey South Africa and Deputy Vice Chancellor forResearch and Innovation, University of Cape Town.■ W. Roy Siegfried is Emeritus Professor at the Universityof Cape Town. He has served as Director of the Sir PercyFitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology.■ Silvester Ron Simango is a Senior Lecturer in the Departmentof English Language and Linguistics at RhodesUniversity. He taught at the University of the North (nowthe University of Limpopo) and the University of Malawi.■ Ratnamala Singh is Executive Director of the HigherEducation Quality Committee, Council on Higher Education.She was Executive Director in the Division for SocialSciences and Humanities at the CSD and HSRC. She wasProfessor and Head of the Department of Philosophy atthe University of Durban-Westville.■ Beric William Skews is Director of the Flow ResearchUnit at the University of the Witwatersrand. He wasManager of R&D at Eskom.■ Hendrik Christoffel Snyman is retired EmeritusProfessor of Physics at the Nelson Mandela MetropolitanUniversity and former Rector and Vice-Chancellor of thePort Elizabeth Technikon.■ Himla Soodyall is Associate Professor at Wits and theDirector of the MRC/NHLS/Wits Human Genomic Diversityand Disease Research Unit at the National HealthLaboratory Service & Wits University. She is a PrincipalMedical Scientist at the NHLS.■ Theodor John Stewart is Professor in the Departmentof Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Heheaded the CSIR’s Division of Operations Research andStatistics and was Head of the Department of StatisticalSciences at UCT.■ Pieter Streicher Steyn is President of IUPAC, andProfessor of Chemistry and Senior Director of Research(Science) at Stellenbosch University. He was Directorof the Division of Food Science and Technology ofthe CSIR, Head of the SASOL Centre for Chemistryand SASOL Professor of Chemistry at PotchefstroomUniversity.■ Pieter Helenius Stoker is Research Professor at theSchool of Physics, Potchefstroom Campus, North WestUniversity. He was head of Department of Physics, PotchefstroomUniversity for CHE.■ Rolf Heinrich Stumpf is Vice Chancellor of the NelsonMandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. Hewas President of the Human Sciences Research Counciland served as Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University ofStellenbosch.■ Chris F. Swanepoel is Professor and Vice-Principal:Academic & Research at the University of South Africa.■ Nthoana Tau-Mzamane is former President and CEO ofthe Agriculture Research Council. She has served as theAnnual Report 2005/06111