The Board
He has a Comprehensive Diploma in Nursing from Transkei Nursing College, Bachelor of Commerce and Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Unisa and Masters of Management – Public & Development Management from Wits. His other trainings which among others, Palliative Nursing Care, Advance Health Management, , HIV Management and Project Management. His passion is increasing access to health care and improving the quality of health care services
Chairperson
She joined Drakenstein Hospice 2000 as a part-time nurse and became the CEO in 2006.
Her interests in palliative care are the spiritual aspects and nursing. She enjoys processing, finding solutions to challengesand making forms.
‘Living’ with HIV/Aids and the unique needs of our children and the children of our patients has prompted us to create Butterfly House, a palliative resource centre in an informal settlement.
Elizabeth believes in people and has trained the first HBC workers in palliative care in 2004. 18 of those HBC workers are still in our employ. Management and structures of organisations have been a challenge and Elizabeth has channeled her energy to find innovative ways of an inclusive top down, bottom up, management style, in response to addressing community palliative care needs.
My husband John is an ex-pilot and now an olive farmer and we have 3 beautiful red haired children, all currently at university.
Vice Chairperson
She is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town where she heads the Palliative Care team within the School of Public Health and Family Medicine. She is the convener for the postgraduate programmes in Palliative Medicine and is responsible for research supervision and support for publications of the postgraduate students. Her special interests are women’s health and palliative care (in particular palliative care in HIV/AIDS) and human rights in health care. In 2007, she was awarded the SA Medical Association’s Gender Award for Human Rights in Health and the SA Institute of Health Managers Leadership in Health Systems award.
She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pain & Symptom Management published in the USA.
CEO – HPCA
He obtained a BSc (Civil Engineering) in 1980 from the University of Natal and has 28 years experience in both the Construction and Consulting fields of engineering.
He completed a number of projects in the North West in the 1990’s centered on the development of services in the rural communities and he initiated empowerment and capacity building programmes within these communities. This was the start of Stephen’s interest in community work.
Stephen is the Programme Manager of Tapologo with involvement from 1998. He is the Chairperson of the North West Hospice Association.
Stephen’s “therapy” is golf and he has two beautiful daughters.
This position has also provided her with knowledge, experience and skills of development of policies and management of community and social development programmes. A major part of her work involves management of NGO’s/ NPO’s and the funding process there-of. She has also participated largely in the resolution of conflicts amongst members of funded NGO’s/ NPO’s. This task has improved her people management and communication skills significantly.
She is currently the Chairperson of the School Governing Body at Kruitberg School which is situated in Bloemfontein, Free State. She is also the Chairperson of the Kopanang Bus Trust, a body attached to the Kruitberg school. She has been chairperson of both the above mentioned for 3 successive terms (each term is 3 years).
She is a member of the board of directors for the St Nicholas Bana Pele, which is situated in Bloemfontein, Free State. She is a Council member of the St. Margarets Anglican Church which is also situated in Bloemfontein.
Dithuso has participated in different forums:
– Elective assembly: a body that was tasked with the responsibility of the election of the Bishop for the Free State Diocese of the Anglican Church.
– She is a chairperson of the Provincial Action Committee for Children affected by HIV and AIDS (PACCA) in the Free State
In 2007 Jacqui joined the Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand in Gauteng as the HR Manager and found an altruistic organisation that she believed in and that has become her passion. In October 2013 Jacqui was again asked to take on the role of Acting CEO and in April 2014 was officially appointed to the position by the Board of Governors.
She was appointed as the Regional Chairperson of the Hospice Association of Gauteng in May 2016.
In 1997 the HPCA Board commissioned Jo to conduct strategic planning research on the structure, functions and financial resources of HPCA. The resulting recommendations put HPCA firmly on a development oriented trajectory supported by the formation of several Hospice Development Sub-committees and a Hospice Development Fund to support the development of member hospices. Jo serves as strategic advisor to the HPCA Board and Management and was recently appointed Company Secretary.Jo is currently a Manager of a national higher education development initiative of JET Education Services.
Previous appointments include:
Director, S.A. Community Partnerships in Health Personnel Education; Head and Senior Lecturer, Academic Development, University of Natal; Founder, S.A. Association for Medical Education; and Assistant Director, Cancer Association of S.A. Honorary appointments include: Honorary Lecturer, University of Cape Town Faculty of Medicine; Honorary Life Member S.A. Association for Health Science Education; Board Member, Oliver Tambo Fellowship, Public Health Management; Member, National Task Group, Primary Health Care, DoH; Steering Committee, Association of Medical Schools in Africa; Member, National Core Group, Human Resource Development, DoH; Editorial Board, Community-University Partnerships (U.S.A.); International Advisory Board,’Medical Teacher’ (UK); International Advisory Board, Journal of Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (U.K.); and International Reference Group, Community Engagement, University of Brighton (U.K.). Jo is a UCT philosophy graduate.
His hobbies include viticulture, oenology, chess, canoeing, cycling and surfing.
He lectures Clinical Associate students, medical undergraduates (Integrated Primary Care), as well as post graduate registrars in M Med (Family Medicine) and Masters in Public Health (Rural Health).Previously he was the Clinical Manager at Madwaleni Hospital (EC DoH) for close on eight years.
He received the Discovery Foundation Individual Award Family Medicine 2008 & Rural Health award in 2010.
He is also an active member of the NDOH GP contracting steering committee, as well as formally contributing to the work of the Office of Health Standards Compliance of the National Department of Health.
Obtained a Diploma in Obstetrics and a Certificate in Family Planning. Worked in South Africa since 1979 as a GP, Obstetrician and an assistant for gynaecology until the birth of my son. I joined the Highway Hospice in 1997. Obtained a Diploma in Palliative Medicine in Wales, M.Phil. in Palliative Medicine at UCT, the Doctor’s Dispensing Course in 2005 and Clinical HIV Management Course in 2005.
Presently employed by Highway Hospice as Medical Director, Deputy CEO and also head of Education. Chairperson of HAKZN Board from 2015. Also working in the Department of Family Medicine in the Nelson Mandela Medical School as Senior lecturer in palliative medicine for undergraduate students and registrars studying for their Masters in Family Medicine who are doing palliative medicine as a module. External examiner in Palliative Medicine for UCT, Diploma Exams 2004 -2010 and 2015.
KZN Regional Business Woman of the Year 2014.
I am passionate about HIV and AIDS issues, psychosocial support and developmental issues.