Sustainability Technical Committee
The objective of the Sustainability Technical Committee is to support SAICA to respond to various current and emerging sustainability aspects as it relates to its members and other stakeholders as identified by SAICA.
Focus areas:
- Reporting & Disclosure, with specific emphasis on the global convergence of sustainability reporting standards and frameworks;
- Assurance & Verification, with specific emphasis around non-financial sustainability information;
- Integrated thinking, with specific reference to sustainability in terms of the International Integrated Reporting Framework and the Integrated Thinking Principles; and
- Sustainability advocacy and thought leadership with identified key stakeholders, covering the areas of reporting, assurance and integrated thinking and any other key aspects considered non- or pre-financial information.
Main activities:
- Advocacy: To identify, prepare or review, and sign- off on comment letters or submissions in response to relevant calls for comment from standard- setting bodies and/or regulators.
- Thought leadership: To identify, and either undertake or oversee formal research on appropriate topics, which may include engaging with applicable stakeholders to achieve research objectives.
- Guidance: To prepare, issue and publish guidelines, and other appropriate publication that assist members with the application of the relevant sustainability or integrated reporting frameworks or legislation.
- Stakeholder Engagement.
Amanda Khoza
Amanda’s work experience spans 23 years in accounting, asset management, research, and socio-economic development programmes in the financial services sector. My directorships include being the Vice President of the Institute of Retirement...
Anria van Zyl
Anria is a senior lecturer and head of Information Systems at the School of Accountancy at Stellenbosch University. She teaches modules in Information Systems, Sustainable Business Models, Integrated- and Sustainability Reporting and...
Benny de Lange
“Environmental stewardship, and socio-economic well-being, are fundamental to my belief system. Call it what you will, sustainability / ESG / People, planet profit is not just a phase we go through, but...
Bongiwe Mbunge
Bongiwe is a partner at Mazars, where she the Head of the Business Sustainability Strategy & Reporting and Human Resources Advisory departments. Bongiwe specializes in business ESG integration, sustainability reporting, integrating reporting,...
Karien Erasmus
“Sustainability is both a way of understanding the world and an approach to solving complex challenges. As such, I am passionate about the role of inter-sector and inter-discipline collaboration to untangle the...
Keketso Motjuwadi
Keketso works in the private sector, with private and public sector clients, as a civil and resilience engineer. His management role focuses on driving and delivering on climate change mitigation, enhancing biodiversity...
Kavita Pema
Kavita Pema has a Master’s degree in Environmental Management obtained from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is a senior leader in sustainability, ESG, Risk and Environment, Health, and Safety with...
Paul S O’Flaherty
Paul joined EY in February 2021 as an Executive Director heading up EY’s strategy business, EY Parthenon across Africa. He also leads EY Sustainability across Africa. Paul is a qualified Chartered Accountant....
Penelope Gregoriou
Penelope is an experienced finance professional at Alexander Forbes Investments. Her work is focused on research, reporting, thought leadership, and brand management. Part of her focus is on sustainable investing, impact and...
Ronell Govender
“Taking action today for a better tomorrow”
Ronell cultivates a proactive approach to her tasks and is passionate about sustainability and business output delivery. Her analytical skills and research capabilities allows her...
Scott Williams
Scott is Marsh’s ESG Coordinating Director servicing the MEA region. He specialises in Sustainability and Integrated Reporting and ESG Strategy advisory with a key focus on coordinating Marsh’s ESG offerings across analytics,...
Thomas van Viegen
Thomas is the Managing Director of EARTH.INC, and the NCFA South Africa Project Lead for ENCORE. He describes himself as an “evangelist for nature and the environment”, a green business pundit. Finding...
Yvette Lange
Yvette is an Adjunct Professor within the Auditing Division at the School of Accountancy at Wits University. As part of her role at Wits, Yvette is the course co-ordinator for integrated reporting,...