Since ITAC has not presented a profile on its part-time Commissioners, we thought that there would be value in telling more about them, other than names. Though we have done our best to find out and to verify all we could, it is quite possible that something may well have slipped through, which we will gladly correct.
On 01 October 2015 the President appointed six new commissioners to the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa on a part time basis for a period of three years from 01 October 2015 to 30 September 2018.
The new Itac Commissioners are Ambassador Faizel Ismail, Asanda Languza, Nkululeko Khumalo, Hlokammoni Grathel Motau, Hendrik Langenhoven and Boipusio Modise.
President Zuma also reappointed Boikanyo Mokgatke, Etiene Vlok and Tanya van Meelis as part-time Itac Commissioners for the same period.
Ambassador Faizel Ismail
Is adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) and served as the Ambassador Permanent Representative of South Africa to the WTO (2010-2014). He has a Masters in Philosophy degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom. He also holds an LLB and a BA degree from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He has led the new democratic South Africa’s trade negotiations with the European Union, Southern African Development Community, Southern African Customs Union and several other bilateral trading partners including the US, India and Mercosur since 1994. He has led South Africa’s negotiations in the WTO since 2002 and has served as the chair of the WTO negotiating group (CTDSS) for two years (2004-2006), the chair of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) regular body for one year (2006-7) and the chair of the WTO Committee on Trade, Debt and Finance (WGTDF) for two years (2012-2014).
Asanda Languza
Senior Agricultural Economist at Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry from August 2007, and prior to that Economist Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture March 2006 - July 2007 (1 year 5 months). Has a BSc Agric Economics, Economics 1995 – 2001 from the University of Fort Hare.
Nkululeko Khumalo
Is a Senior Associate at Bowman Gilfillan and focuses mainly on international trade law, antitrust/competition law, customs and excise and consumer law. He has experience providing advice and representing clients regarding, inter alia, trade remedies (anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures) trade policy, customs and excise, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS) and foreign investment, export and import controls, sanctions, and consumer protection law. Nkululeko is also involved in drafting and preparing various merger notifications and submitting them before competition regulatory authorities in South Africa and other African countries and assisting clients with competition law investigations. He has also been involved in conducting competition law audits, trade controls (import and export and sanctions) compliance audits as well as consumer protection law audits and training. Nkululeko is also a guest lecturer in WTO and international trade law. He has a LLM International Trade & Investment (University of Western Cape in collaboration with Amsterdam Law School); LLB (University of Fort Hare); Post-graduate Certificate in Customs & Excise (University of Pretoria); Project Management Certificate (Gordon Institute of Business Studies); and a Post-graduate Certificate in Economics (University of the Western Cape)
Hlokammoni Grathel Motau
Is a CA(SA) and has an MPhil (Development Finance) from the University of Stellenbosch. She started her career as a trainee accountant at KPMG and then moved on to the Industrial Development Corporation as an account manager and later as a credit evaluation manager with Standard Bank. In 2004 she joined the National Treasury as director: asset and liability management; thereafter she was head of investment fund at Amabubesi Investments and later served as chief financial officer for Blue IQ Investments. Between October 2009 and March 2015 she served as audit [artner for the Energy and Natural Resources Sector at KPMG and in April 2015 became self-employed as an independent development finance consultant. Ms Motau has previously served as a non-executive director of The Independent Regulatory Board of Auditors, the Road Accident Fund, York Timber Limited, Pinnacle Technologies Limited and TriAlpha Asset Management (Pty) Limited. Ms Motau is a member of SAICA, Women Corporate Directors, International Women’s Forum SA, the independent regulatory board of auditors and the African Women Chartered Accountants Forum.
Hendrik Langenhoven
Joined SEIFSA in October 2011 as chief economist. He has previously worked as executive director of the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors, economist at the same organisation, lecturer in economics at Stellenbosch University and economist in the Office of the Economic Advisor to the State President. He holds a BA degree majoring in political science, Africa studies and economics, a BA Honours degree in political science and a Master’s degree in economics, all from Stellenbosch University. Langenhoven’s involvement in economic research covers many fields; his master’s degree consisted of an investigation into the potential for export growth of labour-intensive industries in the coastal regions of South Africa. Further research projects on international trade covered work on the impact of sanctions on the SA economy, and the impact of trade barriers on domestic cost structures and their inhibiting impact on export growth. He was involved in studies on budgeting and fiscal planning and privatisation for Treasury. He was also part of the team that designed and built the first social accounting matrices for South Africa, a tool that is widely used in research on the impact of income distribution changes on spending patterns in the economy, in cost benefit analysis, as well as economic impact studies. His work in the construction industry entailed the design and building of the databases needed to compile ground-breaking sectoral reports for the civil engineering industry. These reports became the benchmark for understanding trends in the sector, and were widely used by financial and market analysts. Its credibility made it pivotal for advocacy work with government and accepted as tools to advise government on projects like the World Cup construction work and the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Projects.
Boipusio Modise
Is a senior economist at National Treasury
President Zuma also reappointed
Boikanyo Mokgatke
He holds an honours degree in agricultural economics obtained from the University of Fort Hare. He started his career at the erstwhile Agricultural Development Corporation (AGRICOR) in 1992 as a district planner and was elevated to a position of policy assessor from 1993 until 1996. He has since then held various senior positions at national government departments, mainly trade and industry as well as agriculture. He worked for the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) responsible for the Agro-Processing Tariff Investigations Unit. He joined the National Chamber of Milling as a protocol and relations executive in August 2006 and served as acting executive director of the chamber from March 2011. Boikanyo led the organisation through a very turbulent period of its 75th year Anniversary in 2011 and has, with the support of the board and its members, crafted a new strategic direction for the National Chamber of Milling that redefined the organisation’s service platform and business model to specifically address the needs of the milling industry and its stake-holders. He was appointed the executive director effective from 1 June 2012. Boikanyo serves in various government and industry structures including the Southern African Grain Laboratory (SAGL) board of directors, Winter Cereal Trust Board of Trustees, SA Government delegate at the International Grains Council (IGC), food processors representative at Busa, Nedlac, Maize and Wheat Forums, etc.
Etienne Vlok
He is a researcher at the South African Clothing and Textile Workers' Trade Union (Sactwu)
Tanya van Meelis
She is chief economist at the Department of Economic Development (EDD), was previously its deputy-director general and prior to that Trade and Industry Policy Co-Ordinator at Cosatu