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Chairperson
Mandla was chair of MultiChoice SA from 2007 to 2010 and chair of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASAS) from 1999 to 2005. He participated in various arts programmes and conferences throughout Africa. In 2007, he received South Africa’s National Order of Ikhamanga (Silver) for literary, journalistic and cultural achievements and in 2009, a Living Legends award from the eThekwini municipality.
A number of his works have been published. He has been editor-at-large of Leadership magazine, programme director for television (TV) at the SABC and his fourth novel, The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize – Africa region. His directorships include Primedia, Phuthuma Nathi 1 and 2, and South African Screenwriters’ Laboratory. Mandla is a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Fort Hare and Witwatersrand.
Director
Clarissa is the regulatory group executive for the MultiChoice Group. She graduated with an LLB from the University of Cape Town and soon after completed a Master’s in Law at Georgetown University in Washington DC (United States of America). After serving her legal articles at Cheadle, Thompson & Haysom attorneys, she joined M-Net and later MultiChoice SA. She is a previous director of M-Net, SuperSport and other companies in the wider MultiChoice Group, most recently MIH’s group executive for regulatory and policy affairs. Clarissa was intimately involved in the launch of the current Phuthuma Nathi scheme.
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