André Lamprecht was appointed to the PPC board in 1997. He practised as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa prior to being invited to join the Barloworld group in 1981. From 1983, he played a leading role in steering the group through a turbulent decade of political transition into a post-apartheid South Africa. He was appointed to the Barloworld Limited board in 1993, assuming responsibility for the company’s interests in Namibia and Botswana in addition to human resources, social investment and other responsibilities. Currently he is chief executive officer of Barloworld Coatings. He has served on behalf of Barloworld on numerous public bodies and is a past chairman of Business South Africa, past president of AHI and past chairman of its Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Corporate and Public Governance. He is also a director of the National Business Initiative (NBI), trustee of the Business Trust and former business convenor of the Trade and Industry Chamber of the National Economic Development and Labour Advisory Council (Nedlac), a member of its executive council, a member of the BUSA and CHAMSA councils and a member of the Retirements Funds Advisory Committee of the Minister of Finance. He was also a long-standing senior member of the Standards Committee of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Zibusiso Kganyago was appointed to the PPC board in October 2007. She is the executive director of gaming developments at Tsogo Sun. Zibusiso has been involved with property development and construction management over the past thirteen years.

She is a non-executive director of the Johannesburg Property Company, a member of the National Land Affairs Board and a member of the Institute of Black Property Practitioners.

She is a member of the Estate Agents Board and has an Advanced Diploma in Property Planning, Development and Management, University of Nevada Executive Development Programme.

Ntombi Langa-Royds was appointed to the PPC board in October 2007. She owns Nthake Consulting, a human resources consulting firm specialising in human resources management and allied services. She has twenty-one years’ experience in the human resources environment, with previous positions as Director of Human Resources at Independent Newspapers Holdings Limited, South African Broadcasting Corporation and Bevcan division of Nampak Limited.

She is a non-executive director of Exhibitions for Africa, Momentum Group Limited, Momentum Health (Pty) Limited, Primedia Publishing (Pty) Limited, Respiratory Care Africa Limited and Human Capital Institute (Africa).

Martin Shaw was appointed to the PPC board in 2001. He served as managing partner, chief executive and chairman of Deloitte & Touche in South Africa until his retirement from the firm in 2001. He was president of the Natal Society of Chartered Accountants from 1977 to 1978 and president of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants from 1982 to 1983.

He is chairman of Reunert Limited and a director of Illovo Sugar Limited, JD Group Limited, Liberty Group Limited, Liberty Holdings Limited, Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited, Standard Bank Group Limited and Standard Bank of South Africa Limited.

Joe Shibambo was appointed to the PPC board in May 2005. He has been involved in the construction industry since 1979, and has gained invaluable knowledge in building construction, construction management, property development and the implementation of BEE development programmes. He is the managing director of Hlamalane Investment Holdings, a holding company established in 2005. Through his organisation, he helps historically disadvantaged individuals in the basic management principles of the construction industry and the effective management thereof. He was the first black independent residential developer to start a “green fields” township development and the first independent contractor to build a shopping centre, both of which were in Soweto.