SAUFT’s Governing Structure

The South African Unbuntu Foundation will operate as a Trust with a Board of Directors that will ensure corporate governance and adherence to the vision, mission and objectives of the Foundation’s business units and programmes.  Two distinguished individuals have agreed to serve as Patrons of the Foundation: 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu & Dr Mamphele Ramphele    

To date, the following distinguished South Africans have agreed to serve on the Board of
Directors: 
 
Yvonne Chaka-Chaka – Internationally famous singer; successful businesswoman; UNICEF spokesperson; and Director, various Boards

Taswell Papier – Partner, Sonnenberg Hoffmann Galombik; prominent public figure.

Hilda Ndude – MD, Dyambu Holdings; former Western Cape Provincial legislator.

Prof. Fatima Abrahams – Dean, School of Business, Univ. of the Western Cape.

Kevin Chaplin – Founder and MD, Ubuntu South African Foundation; former Provincial Manager, First National Bank Western Cape. Click here to view resume

Vernon Kirsten – CEO, Reserve Hotels; and Chair, Tourism Business Forum.
  
Taweni Xaba – Editor, the new “Deal” Magazine; former Editor, “O” Magazine.

In addition, SAUFT will seek partnerships with several highly regarded and influential organisations and institutions, including: 

The Allan Gray Foundation
The Amy Biehl Foundation Trust 
The Art of Living Foundation
Dyambu Holdings
FirstRand Ltd.
First National Bank
The O’Shea Group
ReservHotel Group
Power Group of  Companies
Rand Merchant Bank
Sakhikamva Investments
St. Patrick’s Trust/Eurocape
Unity Empowerment Trust 

Code of Conduct for Our Daily Lives

1. Do not do unto others what you would not want them to do unto you. As we do not wish that others should hurt or ignore our feelings it implies that equally we should consider the feelings of others.
2. Respond to other people’s feelings, and have empathy with their suffering, their grief and pain as well as their joy and happiness.
3. Enjoy taking responsibility for your actions and for the purposes which they serve.
4. Feel satisfaction in the carrying out of your duty as an active member of the society.
5. Participate with others in pleasurable and creative activities without the need to assert yourself over them and diminish their self-respect.
6. Cherish your pleasures in your work and productive activity, and in the exercise of your skills to see yourself reflected in what you produce; experience self-realisation and a sense of dignity by what you create and through satisfaction of contributing to the welfare of others.
7. Cultivate your moral and rational capabilities and examine at all times statements and dictates for their rational and moral content and anticipate their consequences, for this affirms your freedom and your autonomy.
8. Examine the logic and value of your own propositions and appraise the facts contained in them, and, above all, never let your obsessions and prejudices be presented as universal truths. Never fabricate evidence to justify your beliefs.
9. Never submit to the demands and ideas of those who speak in the name of authority without examining their value as well as their logic. Cultivate the ideas and actions which serve the advancement of humanity and find humanity reflected in your own humanity.
10. Recognise secondary drives of aggression and sadism as well as greed, possessiveness, the demand for power over others, envy and revenge, and do not adopt a stubborn self-righteousness in order to justify yourself, nor project such compulsions upon others and thereby develop paranoid fears which frequently dominate personal as well as social relationships.
11. Promote the virtues of love, empathy and mutual trust as the good qualities of life, the source of the good will, and feel a sense of responsibility for the promotion of these qualities in society.
12. Never treat a human being as a means to serve your ends but always as an end in him or herself.
13. Enjoy your feelings of love and of being loved, and don’t be afraid of them; nor do you need to hide them in your relationship to others.
14. Never force sexual gratification without respect for others desires and feelings. Never force others to submit to your desires or use violence to gain gratification.
15. Act in such a manner that the facts created by your actions are in keeping with your concepts of ends.
16. Conceive moral ends in such a manner that it is possible for yourself and for humanity to follow them.
17. Always remember the R’s of respect for human dignity, recognizing the plight of others, responding in times of crisis, responsibility, reliability, reconciliation and relationships.

Author: Mfuniselwa J. Bhengu