Rachel Jafta

Rachel holds the degrees MEcon and PhD from Stellenbosch University and is a professor in economics at that university. She chairs the Cape Town Carnival Trust and the board of Naspers Labs NPC, is a member of the South African Economic Society and serves on the management committee of the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University. Since 2015, she has served on the international advisory council of Fondação Dom Cabral Business School, Brazil. Rachel joined Naspers as a director in 2003 and was appointed an independent non-executive director of Media24 in 2007 (tenure of 12 years). She has chaired the Media24 board since April 2013. From September 2019, she serves on the board of Prosus.

Jo-Ann Held

Jo-Ann obtained a BComLaw degree at Stellenbosch University. She is a media entrepreneur who has presented and produced TV and online media properties for 19 years. She is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and a director of the advisory board of Stellenbosch University Business School, Village and Life, and M&C Saatchi Abel. She joined Welkom Yizani as an independent non-executive director in September 2014.

Omichand Lalbahadur

Omichand Lalbahadur holds a BComm from Unisa and an MBA from the New York Finance Institute. He joined Media24 in 2007 as a senior financial manager after holding positions in, among others, the petroleum and paper manufacturing industries and SARS. He was appointed chief financial officer: Media24 Lifestyle in 2009, acted as Media24’s chief financial officer in 2015 and was appointed as general manager of Lifestyle in 2017. Omichand was appointed as Media24’s project management officer in 2018.