Director:

Kundayi Masanzu is a copyright lawyer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Swaziland, a Bachelor of laws degree from Wits University and has worked in a copyright law firm in Johannesburg. His area of interest is legal research and writing.

Chairman:

Professor Sihawukele Ngubane is the Head of Undergraduate Studies and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, Development & Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is an Onomastician and an author of educational and literary isiZulu books. Professor Ngubane chairs the Usiba Writers Association and the African Languages Association of Southern Africa.

Treasurer:

Elitha van der Sandt is the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Book Development Council. Her qualifications include a BCom degree, with postgraduate qualifications in Adult Education and Research from the Universities of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch repectively. Coming from Mitchell's Plain on the Cape Flats, Elitha is passionate about social and economic transformation and has worked in the areas of health, land reform and education.

Board Members:

Professor Liz Gunner lectured in African literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and in Commonwealth Literature at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, before moving to the University of Natal in 1998 and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in 2006. She has also held Fellowships at the Universities of Cape Town, Melbourne and Oxford. She has written extensively on African literature and culture.

Winston Mohapi is a writer of Sesotho literature. He has published poetry, novels, short stories, folk-tales, and articles in academic journals. He is the founder member and chairman of the Sesotho writers’ association, the former chairman of the Sesotho National Language Body, and the founder of the Sesotho National Lexicographic Unit. He is the head of the indigenous official African languages translation and editing directorate in the Department of Arts and Culture and also a vice chairperson of Literature Development Forum in the Department of Arts and Culture.

Sandile Ngidi is an art critic, translator, literary agent and public relations consultant. He served on the first non-racial board of the Natal Playhouse in 1994 and to this day considers himself an arts activist.

Monica Seeber is a publishing consultant. Her area of expertise is copyright, and she has consulted to both UNESCO and WIPO in that field. A member of the executive committee of the South African Coalition for Cultural Diversity, Monica is the co-author and co-compiler of The Politics of Publishing in South Africa (2001) and has also written numerous articles on copyright and publishing.

Professor Louis Venter specialises in Afrikaans and Dutch prose as well as in academic writing. He has published 27 articles in scholarly books and journals and has reviewed more than 140 books in newspapers and periodicals. He has delivered congress papers in South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany and Russia and presented lectures on corporate writing in Kuwait and Denmark. Presently he holds the position of professor-consultant in academic writing at the University of the Free State